Kurukshetra by Lakshminarayan Hajra [Hardcover]

From the dawn of human civilization to the present day, wars have been occurring. War is a great sin resulting from the actions of human society. The eighteen-day war of Kurukshetra between the Pandavas and the Kauravas was such a terrible and destructive ancient war. The book ‘Kurukshetra: Eighteen-Day War’ presents and analyzes the Kurukshetra episode of the Mahabharata in a lucid language. The internal and external turmoil of the blind Dhritarashtra, the aggressive imperialism of the proud Duryodhana, Yudhishthira's addiction to gambling, and above all, the public humiliation of Queen Draupadi in the royal assembly—all these inevitably led to this great war. As a result, one by one, the elders of the Kuru clan, like Bhishma, the weapons teacher of both sides, Dronacharya, the ill-fated and cursed Karna, Jayadrath, Shalya, the heroic young Abhimanyu, Shikhandi, Dhrishtadyumna, the wicked Dushasana, and the star of Kshatriya valor, Duryodhana, among others, bid farewell. The great cemetery of Kurukshetra was created, where one could hear the heart-wrenching laments of the widow Uttara, Dushala, and others. Gandhari and Draupadi faced each other—who would console whom? Both had lost all their sons.