Anthony Hui Indian Epics 996

Imagine this: you are a sophomore in college. You usually go to sleep between 11 pm-1 am but you always get around 7 hours of sleep a night. You've never pulled an all-nighter before and anytime you go to bed way past your normal bedtime, you would skip your morning lectures just to get 7 hours of sleep. Basically, you're almost always decently well-rested. Now that you're done visualizing this, you are pretty much me during mid-September, 2018. During that semester, I was in a 1 credit hour circuits class with our grades being essentially 3 projects and a final exam. Each of the projects require us to build a random circuit and then analyze it but that's not the main point. The important part is that those project take a long time; and I mean a LONG time. I've always been a major procrastinator but I've never really been burned by it because most of my projects up til now were fairly simple and straightforward. I foolishly thought that the circuits project ...

Mahabharata Online: Public Domain Edition Vidura, the brother of Pandu and Dhritarashtra, found out about Duryodhana's plot with the wooden castle. So he told Kunti and the Pandavas and then he dug a secret tunnel from the castle to a forest so they can escape. On that night, the captain Purochana set the castle on fire but the Pandavas and Kunti escaped. Bhima then decided to take revenge on the captain by setting the guard house on fire, thus killing them. It also happened that a poor beggar woman and her kids approached the Pandavas for food that night, which they gave them. The woman and her kids though fell asleep in the castle and perished in the flames. That morning, people found their remains and thought it was Kunti and the Pandavas and grieved but Duryodhana thought his plan had succeeded and celebrated with the king. Draupadi exiled  Source The Pandavas and Kunti go back to living in the wilderness, which is full of dangerous stuff. A rakshasa woman fell in l...

Mahabharata Online: Public Domain Edition The Mahabharata contains everything a person would need to know of things on earth and heaven. Statue of Arjuna in Bali  Source The story starts with Vyasa's, the author of Mahabharata, origin story. A king called Uparichara got a crystal car from Indra because the gods feared that he was trying to usurp them. One day on his flying car, Vyasa's semen fell into a river (???) and a fish ate it who eventually gave birth to a boy and a girl 10 months later. A fisherman found this, told the king, and the king kept the boy but gave the girl to the fisherman. The girl, Satyavati, ended up having a very fishy smell but when she was ferrying the rishi Parashara, he convinced her to yield to his embraces and Vyasa was born from this after. The next story was the origin story of Devarata. His mom is a goddess called Ganga who married King Shantanu. Her criteria to marry him is that he'll let her do whatever she wants and he will ...