Ishwa helper Reged: 03/03/02 Posts: 553

Re: Bhadra [Re: Suprabha] #17691 - 06/21/02 03:19 AM Edit Reply Quote

That's wholly possible in the official version of the Mahabharat as we have now. But The Mahabharata as we have now has a lot of discrepancies, which crept in during the oral transmission. Many stories were linked with the Bharata Battle event, which were actually later or earlier: Vasudeva Krshna died on the day that KaliYuga had to start. But Parikshit lived 1000 years before the start of KaliYuga and heard the Bhagavatam. So this Krshna can never have been contemporary with the Bharata Battle. (source: Bhagavata Purana). The kings who started from the KaliYuga, were the Barhadratha Kurus, who had defeated the last Pandava, named Kshemaka. The Puranas give the reigning figures of the Barhadrathas, but not of the Pandavas (or better Kauravas, as they are called), nor of the Aikshvakus of Ayodhya, who were contemporary with the Pandavas. Many post-Bharata events were incorporated within the main story, like the pastoral Gopala Krshna story (more belonging to the later added Harivansha section, but interpolated in the main sections). The same happened with the identification of Vasudeva krshna with the much H�rita Krshna. The last one was a early Vedic Rshi, who was not a Yadu prince, but an Angiras Brahmin, as his H�rita name suggests (a pravara of Angirasa gotra). Besides, the Guru of H�rita was also an Angirasa, named Ghora Angirasa. The Guru of Vasudeva Krshna was Shandipani! But I'm glad that you provide me with many names and events in which I didn't have that much interest before.