title: ARJUNA Saga Of A Pandava Warrior-Prince
author: Ajuna Chandramouli
description: Anuja Chandramouli is a full-time mother of two lovely girls, as well as a part-time writer. Her academic credentials include a Bachelor s degree in Psychology and a Master s in English.Having started out as a freelance writer with articles published in Women s Era, Lonely Planet and The Hindu, she currently works as an e-reporter and columnist. Anuja is a self-confessed, big-dreamer, who is driven by an inner passion to contribute her mite to the great pool of human endeavour, thought, and wisdom. An ardent admirer of Veda Vyasa s Mahabharata, Anuja holds the Great Epic to be one of a kind, the Homers and Virgils of the world notwithstanding. Drawing her creative inspiration from the epic s timeless track record of sustenance through centuries of retelling, Anuja chose to debut as a storyteller with the immortal and eternally captivating saga of Arjuna, the non pareil hero. Putting together episodes from Arjuna s life (some well known, others relatively obscure), gleaned through years of painstaking research and then presented in a seamless narrative with the uninhibited panache and style of a 21st century writer, has been an immensely satisfying and self-actualising endeavour for this New Age Indian classicist.
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  > Translated by Bibek Debroy
  
  > > THE MAHABHARATA
  
   _Volume 8 (Sections 78 to 86)_
  
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  Contents
  
  > >  _Dedication_
  
  > >  _Praise for Previous Volumes_
  
  > >  _About the Translator_
  
  > >  _Family tree_
  
  > >  _Map of Bharatavarsha_
  
  > >  _Introduction_
  
  > > SECTION SEVENTY-EIGHT  
  > SOUPTIKA PARVA
  
  > >  _Ashvatthama sees an owl kill sleeping crows and decides that the
  > Pandavas and Panchalas should be killed in the night, while they are asleep_
  
  > > SECTION SEVENTY-NINE  
  > AISHIKA PARVA
  
  > >  _Ashvatthama and Arjuna invoke their brahmashira weapons, which threaten
  > to destroy the worlds; Arjuna withdraws his and Ashvatthama’s is diverted
  > towards the wombs of the Pandava women_
  
  > > SECTION EIGHTY  
  > VISHOKA PARVA
  
  > >  _Vidura attempts to dispel Dhritarashtra’s sorrow_
  
  > > SECTION EIGHTY-ONE  
  > STRI PARVA
  
  > >  _Pandavas meet Dhritarashtra and Gandhari; Dhritarashtra wants to crush
  > Bhima to death, but is offered an iron imag