Peace
and you may wonder, “ok, why substack?” Longtime subscribers may see the progression from rhyming translation of Sanskrit to English verse → diagramming war graphs → generative storyboard arts → film. The parvas illustrated here are the same parvas in translation. This video puts the illustrated parvas in a chronological line - telling the story from birth to death of the Pandavas covering the major plot points. Lomarshana was a famed storyteller whose name means ‘hair-raiser’ because he could make the hair on one’s neck and arms stand up in telling the story. Can’t top him. Maybe other tellers with a lighter side spin may get pen name Tundastada (the belly shaker). Who knows? Maybe someday. the muse is amuse.
War (rerun)
Deja vu? - yes! The full war was published in another post recently - it’s included here for convenance, and so Google-friendly search title ‘War & Peace’ makes sense.
Audience Test Qs
Does it make sense? Is it accessible? Quien sabe?
