is a ‘no writing’ experiment in the ancient tradition of epic storytelling using AI. This is the story of the Mahabharata war.
Arjuna destroys Samshaptaka warrior fanatics in the morning, creating a river of destruction, and taking Arjuna far from Abhimanyu. - Manmatha Dutt. Mahabharata. Drona Parva.
Abhimanyu in gold armor blazes his chariot through an inescapable array. - Manmatha Dutt. Mahabharata. Drona Parva. chapter 34.
Chakravyuha
chakravyuha. elephants with gold standards, red ribbons and crimson ornaments, crimson flags golden garlands, floral garlands. severed arms, gloves, bows swords bucklers, iron hooks, lances, axes, spears, darts, mallets, nooses ground. arrows enter elephant temples like a snake entering an ant-hill. like an insect into flame. arrows fly in nets thick as locusts’ showers of rain. - Dutt. chp. 42
Jayadratha rides a chariot bedecked with diamonds, gold and pearl stocked with implements of war like a castle a standard with a silver boar, with white umbrellas, yak-tails and emblems of royalty, like a moon amidst stars, raining arrows onto the Pandavas, blocking them from following Abhimanyu. - Dutt. chp. 43
severed arms wearing gold ornaments grasping swords, axes, bludgeons. broken axles, yokes and chariot parts. Abhimanyu careens his golden coat of mail and arrows shining through dust like the sun through the clouds. - Dutt. chp. 44.
Abhimanyu’s Death
chariot wheel shattered by arrows. - Dutt. chp. 49
Abhimanyu ascends. Earth covered with arrows, golden wings, waves of blood, headgear, streamers, weapons, shattered chariots, numbers of warriors and elephants. - Dutt. chp. 49
Celestial rivers of liquid gold, golden alligators, crabs and statutes around an artificial lake. - Dutt. Story of Suhotra. chp. 56
Arjuna’s Oath
Arjuna vows at night in camp to enter the flame or make dust rise from the field of battle after sunrise. . Dutt. chp. 73
