THE PRIEST

Gandhari, Daughter of King Subala who belonged to the Ghandhara family, was having such astrological signs that her first husband will die soon after marriage , will be remarried and her second husband would lead a long life. Scared from the facts, Gandhari’s father made her marry a goat and then sacrificed the goat and then she was married to Dhritrashtra. After few years of marriage Dhritharashtra got to know about the above mentioned facts which made him furious and in anger he imprisoned the entire Ghandhara family - king Subala and his 100 sons and tormented them.He wanted them to starve to death and thus provide only a handful of rice to each of them.One by one they started dying of hunger. King Subala, worried about his dynasty, convinced all his family members to sacrifice their food for the youngest and most intelligent son (Shakuni) who would be ultimately responsible for the downfall of Kauravas. Before dying Subala requested Dhritharashtra to show mercy on his last s...

Barbarika was son of Ghatotkacha  and grand son of Bhima. Every time someone tell me about Barbarika being grandson of Bhima, I use to get confused that how come Bhima have grandson so early. I read about it and found out that in Rakshas(Demon) clan the child attain adulthood within short period of time. And since mother of ghatotkacha was Hidimba, a rakshasi(female demon), he got her genes and grown up in short span of time.The same case being with his son Barbarika . When Barbarika heard the news of beginning of the great war, he decided to participate in the war . When he reached kurushetra(the battle field of mahabharata) Krishna asked him how many days would he take to finish mahabharata. He replied one hour . "But u have only 3 arrows, are they enough to finish the war" Krishna asked. "My Lord i need only three arrows , one for enquiring the field , second to fix the position of target and third to kill the enemies" replied Barbarika. To test his clai...