is a ‘no writing’ experiment in the ancient tradition of epic storytelling using AI. This is the story of the Mahabharata war.
Exhausted warriors sleep on the ground and backs of elephants like mounds under lily white moon glittering yellow beams in the darkness like a herd of elephants and a sun rises shedding reddish beams on a horizon. Dutt. Mhb. Drona Vadha. Chapter 185.
showers of arrows fall on chariots, horses, elephants and infantry in a cloudy morning sky filled with dust and fog. slain horses and headless riders roam about. Dutt. DV. chp. 187
chariots elephants cavalry and infantry battle, swords in heaps like cloth, scimitars, lances axes, in a river of dead elephants and steeds, weapons its blood and flesh, banners and cloth as its foam. chariot wheels and yokes splintered and broke clouds of dust. - Dutt. DV. chp. 188
Nakula and Sahadeva protect Dhristadyumna’s chariot wheels as Dhrishtadyumna rushes upon Drona like a blazing fire. - Dutt. chp. 189
Bhima fights an elephant Dhrishtadyumna swings a sword at Drona who meditates Yudhishthira blows his conch.- Dutt
Drona’s weapons blaze, fierce winds blow meteors issue out of the solar disk, Drona’s chariot careens over the field of battle raising a tail of dust like a blazing fire with a curl of smoke. - Dutt. DV. chp. 193
Ashvatthama releases the Narayana weapon. Wind blows peals of thunder in a cloudless sky, mountains break animals flee under a veil of darkness chariots horses and men flee battlefield in panic. - Dutt. DV. chp. 197
Ashvatthama releases broad-headed shafts leaving mountains of dead, standards as its trees, peaks by weapons, stone by slain elephants, horses were its vegetation and bows creepers, the cranes were flesh-eating animals and birds that crowded along its banks. - Dutt. DV. chp. 200
Ashvatthama releases another Narayana weapon that creates lustrous orbs like iron balls in the blood orange sky thousands of arrows with blazing tips like snakes with fiery mouths, wheeling weapons, like rays of the sun fall from heaven on clashing warriors fires burn the ground swords maces and armor thrown. - Dutt. DV. chp. 200
Bhima charges Ashvatthama agitating the Narayana’s effect chariot shrouded by blazing arrows like snakes like peaks of goal, like a mountain surrounded by fireflies at dusk, a conflagration starting into blazing fire within another blazing fire. - Dutt. DV. chp. 201
Ashvatthama severs Bhima’s bow. Bhima hurls a lance at Ashvatthama’s chariot, like a burning beam of flame. - Dutt. DV. chp. 201
Ashvatthama releases the Agni Weapon at Arjuna and Krishna, like fire without smoke, a thick shower of fiery arrows fall meteors fall from the sky the sun turns dark reverses course black ravens circle showers of blood fall from dark thunder cloud, elephants fall and pillars of fire rise from the ground, moon rises incongruously. - Dutt. DV. chp. 201
bow and quivers wearing golden mail, a trident, thunderbolt, battleaxe mace and large sword, with matted locks a moon on forehead clad in tiger-skin with shor club, snakes around neck, over water, heaven, earth, sun, moon wind and fire. - Dutt. BV. chp. 202
with blazing eyes on all sides of body like stars, the rays of sun and moon his hair, blazing form
Ashvatthama throws away bow and runs from his chariot
