Reading Notes: Mahabharata

Bhishma Falls by Donald A. Mackenzie

  • Bhishma advances ferociously in his chariot, seeking to wreck havoc
  • Krishna knows that Bhishma will not kill a woman, so sends Shikhandin and Arjuna
  • Arjuna is reluctant because he looks at Bhishma as a father figure. His emotions are torn
  • Arjuna ends up fighting Bhishma because he realizes he must fight against someone he loved, just as Bhishma did the same. They battle for hours and everyone stops engaging to look at them
  • Shikhandin charges Bhishma, and he puts his defense down because he can't fight a woman. Arjuna uses this opportunity to shoot him with arrows. He falls of his chariot and will soon die
  • setting describes as darkness and nightfall
  • Arjuna weeps, as do the rest of the warriors
  • Bhishma cries in vain for peace to be resolved and for the Pandavas and Kauravas to become friends again
  • He spoke to Karna, asking for his forgiveness, but Karna hated him, and wanted him dead
  • Bhishma was protected by a guard all night, "pillow of arrows"
  • waited for hour of doom
  • didn't die until after great conflict ended
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