Episode 9: Son of the Sun
- Kunti, Pandu's wife, has a secret - she had a son with the sun god
- Her sun had armor and celestial earrings - he was clearly divine
- Since she was unmarried, she sent her son down the river in a basket (like Moses)
Episode 10: Pandu's Curse
- Pandu and his wives enter the forest to enjoy nature - he took to hunting
- One day, he accidentally shot a hermit couple having sex, thinking they were deer
- The hermit cursed Pandu so that the moment he entered intimacy with a woman, he would die
- Pandu decided to stay in isolation along with his wives
- Kunti decides to tell Pandu about her gift to be able to summon gods and make them fall in love with her (without mentioning her child)
- Pandu's thrilled and asks Kunti to quickly summon a god and bear Hastanaput's future kings
Episode 11: Sons of Pandu
- Kunti first calls Yama, god of truth, who gives her a son - Yudhishthira (mental rock)
- Kunti then calls the wind god, who gives her another son - Bhima (strong and fast)
- She then calls Indra, who gives her another son - Arjuna (great warrior/archer)
- She uses her mantra to call gods for Madri
- Madri has sons with the Ashwin twins - Nakula and Sahadeva
- Pandu loses control and forces himself on Madri, which kills him due to his curse
- Madri follows him into a funeral pyre, leaving Kunti as the mother of the five Pandavas
The sons of Pandu; Image Source
- When Gandhari (Dhritarashtra's wife) hears that Kunti has borne sons, she is nervous because the eldest born child of either brother (Dhritarashtra or Pandu) would inherit the throne of Hastanaput
- She becomes pregnant with Dhritarashtra's child, but it was a very troubled one
- She gave birth to a lifeless lump
- In her despair, she ordered a maid to cast that lump of flesh into the forest
- Vyasa stops her and divides the lump into 100 pieces, immersing each piece into a vat of oil, which began the future of the Kuru clan
- Gandhari's children began forming in those vats
- Bad omens began forming around Hastanaput
- There was something demonic about the 100 sons
- Now Kunti returns...
- Gandhari and Dhritarashtra's eldest child, Duryodhana particularly disliked Bhima because grandfather Bhishma favored Bhima
- Duryodhana found that he could not defeat Bhima in wrestling matches - Duryodhana grew to hate Bhima as Bhima became more and more beloved
- Duryodhana's uncle, Gandhari's brother, became his mentor - he told Duryodhana that the Pandavas were pretenders and he needed to defeat them
- He puts sleeping herbs in their food and pushes Bhima into a lake to drown
Episode 14: The Magic Potion
- As Bhima falls, poisonous snakes begin biting into him, yet he is not killed
- Instead, he woke up and fought off the snakes, reversing the situation
- The king of the serpents ends up being Bhima's grandfather and Bhima was given a drink that enabled him to face and defeat many threats to his and his brother's life
- Gave him the strength of a thousand elephants and transformed him into a hero
Episode 15: Drona
- Duryodhana is confused and unhappy at Bhima's return to Hastanaput
- Bhishma realized that the boys needed a teacher to master the way of war - Drona
Episode 16: Drona Trains the Pandavas
- The boys soon began displaying their prowess to Drona
- Yudhishthira - excellent charioteer
- Nakula & Sahadeva - talented swordsmen
- Bhima - strongest son of all, talented at the mace
- Arjuna - perfect warrior, wielded all weapons with equal ease and was adept at hand to hand combat. He was most drawn to archery
- Drona decided he could be taught the use of the divine weapons
Episode 17: Ekalavya's Story
- Ekalavya - a hunter who proved to be the most talented of archers
- Not a warrior/prince/etc.
- Arjuna asks him who his guru was and how he learned the art of archery
- He answers, Drona
- Arjuna is furious, accusing Drona of betraying him and his ambition, but Drona has no knowledge of Ekalavya
- Ekalavya tells him that he had gone to Drona to be trained but Drona had denied him due to his humble background
- This pushed Ekalavya to be extremely devoted and become the best archer in the world
- Drona orders him to cut off the thumb of his right hand to prevent his talent from remaining
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