-Pandavas spent 12 years in the forest
-They plan to be in disguise at King Virata's court
-Yudhishthira is a good gambler and disguises himself as Kanka
-Bhima disguises as a cook named Ballaba
-Arjuna is Brihannala. a dancing teacher
-Nakula is Granthika, a stable worker
-Sahadeva is Tantripala, cowherder
-Draupadi is Sairanhdhri, Queen Sudeshna's maid
-They leave a corpse in a cremation ground (who's corpse?)
-They leave their weapons in a shami tree
-The Queen's brother, Kichaka asks for the maid (Draupadi) to be sent to him, he tries to rape her
-Bhima switches places with Draupadi, he crushes Kichaka, and rolls him into a ball
-Draupadi tells the queen that she has a celestial husband who killed him, the queen believes her
The end of the Exile:
-People want to burn Draupadi on Kichaka's funeral pyre
-Bhima rescues her
-Duryodhana attacks King Virata, Susharma takes the kind captive
-Yudhishthira declares they'll rescue the king
-Prince Uttara, the king's son has Brihannala (Arjuna) as his charioteer
-Arjuna has the prince be the charioteer while he fights
-Karna and Arjuna fight, both wounded and both survive
-Pandavas reveal identity to King Virata
-Arjuna's son Abhimanyu, marries princess Uttara
-Yudhishthira ties to have a peaceful treaty with King Dhritarashtra
-Duryodhana tells the king the Pandavas should be exiled for 12 more years
The Great Battle:-The Pandavas prep for war
-Bhima renews vow to drink Duhshasana's blood and break Duryodhana's thigh
-The armies meet at Kurukshetra
-Bhishma, Drona, and Karna are on the Kaurava side
-Pandava's are smaller
-Arjuna injures Bhishma by using a Shikhandi (soldier who wore women's clothing)
-Bhishma waits for death on a bed of arrows
-Bhisma's mother, Ganga sends swans to tell him to wait to die until solstice
-There's a truce until he dies, and Arjuna helps him until he dies
-After he dies, fighting starts again
-Dhristadyumna, Draupadi's brother wants revenge against Drona
-He tricks Drona, telling him that his son Aswatthaman is dead
-He beheads Drona
-Karna is now the commander
-Arjuna and Karna duel in chariots
-Krishna is Arjuna's charioteer
-Karna's wheel gets stuck in a ditch and Arjuna kills him
-Bhima kills Duhshasana and drinks his blood
-Only Kaurava's left are Aswatthaman and Duryodhana, they have allies Kripa and Kritavarman
Duryodhana's Death:
-Duryodhana is under a lake and won't face the Pandavas
-He agrees to a duel with Bhima
-Bhima finally breaks his thigh
-The Kaurava's, Aswatthaman, Kripa, and Kritavarman raid the Pandava camp at night
-They kill everybody but Yudhishthira, the brothers, and Krishna
-The Kaurava's tell Duryodhana who then dies
-All of Draupadi's sons are dead, Abhimanyu (Arjuna and Krishna's sister's son) is dead, and so are the 100 sons of Dhritarashtra\
-Uttara, Abhimanyu's wife, has a baby named Parikshit.. he carries on the family line
-Dhritarashtra, Gandhari, and Kunti go into the forest, they die
-Yudhishthira becomes king of Hastinapura
The Death of King Krishna:
-Yudhishthira rules happily for a while
-Krishna kills King Kamsa, who tried to kill Krishna as an infant
-Krishna is king of Dwaraka
-Vishvamitra's cursed people of Dwaraka to kill each other
-Krishna doesn't allow wine drinking, in hopes that it will get rid of the curse
-Krishna's wife has a dream, he sends people to the shore to make an offering
-At the shore the people drink wine and kill each other
-Krishna's brother, Balarama leaves this world by giving up his spirit
-Krishna is meditating in the forest and hunter mistakenly shoots him
-A wave drowns the city Dwaraka
-Arjuna take Krishna's 5 wives to the land of 5 rivers, Punjab
-The wives are captured
-Yudhishthira hears this and decides the Pandavas should leave the world
-Parikshit is now king
The Reunion of the Bharatas:
-Agni (the fire god) tells Arjuna to cast the Gandiva bow to Varuna (the water god)
-They all climb the Himalayas
-All fall for sins
-Draupadi for loving Arjuna more than her other husbands
-Sahadeva for being boastful about wisdom
-Nakula for being boastful about his looks
-Arjuna for failing to kill Duryodhana in a second like he had promised
-Bhima for being boastful about his strength
-Yudhishthira is the only on left
-He continues on with his dog
-Indra appears to drive them to Amaravati
-Yudhishthira won't leave his dog and wins the test of loyalty
-In heaven he can't find his brothers or Draupadi
-He must go to hell to find them and stay there with them
-He does and so everybody is allowed into heaven
-Karna, Dhritarashtra, Bhishma, Drona, Virata, Drupada, Duryodhana, and all the warriors
-Everybody is at peace with each other and the Bharatas are reunited
Source: The Indian Heroes: Mahabharata- The Princes of Elephant City by C. A. Kincaid (1921).
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