• Blog posts
    • Spirituality
    • Constructive Criticism: Book reviews
    • Random musings of an eternal optimist
    • Mahabharata
    • Blogging ‘Eureka’ tips & ideas
    • World of Books & I
      • Book writing tips
    • Social Causes
    • Haiku
    • Blog Milestones
  • My novel – Arjun: Without A Doubt
  • Arjun – Anecdotes, free excerpt, quotes, reviews, journey memories
    • Arjun Anecdotes
    • Download Free Excerpt (pdf)
    • Arjun : Journey of my Novel
    • Quotes from Arjun:Without a Doubt
    • About Author
    • Book reviews for Arjun: Without a Doubt
  • My Pencil-sketches

Impractical Dreamer

~ Dr Sweety Shinde: As a butterfly flits; so does the mind waltz in innumerable flights. Mine hovers over books, spirituality ,humor and random gems from everyday life.

Impractical Dreamer

Tag Archives: srikandi

Multiple Arjunas .

23 Saturday May 2015

Posted by dr sweetyshinde in Arjun Related posts

≈ 39 Comments

Tags

arjuna, Arjuna wives, folklore, indonesian, javanese, Mahabharata, mahabharata versions, permadi, shikhandi, srikandi, supraba, supraba nymph, variations

Pan-Indian Arjun, Indonesian Arjun, Bengali Arjun, Tamil Arjun.

Zapped? Don’t be!

Indonesia, with its huge Buddhist & Hinduist influences has its own Mahabharat. Variations between ‘our’ MB & ‘their’ MB – some quirky, some weird, some hilarious, some disgusting, some beyond imagination.

P.S – As in Vyas’s MB, many facts are probably expanded/ diluted/ masala-fied by interpolations via folklore, literature and poetic license. So PLEASE take these spin-offs with a pinch of salt.

Read on for ‘twists’  in Indonesian Arjun aka Permadi (Hmm 11th name?)…javanese arjuna- Permadi

1. Arjun, Bheem & Yudhi are biological sons of PANDU, while the demi-Gods are their spiritual fathers.

2. Other than Draupadi (aka Drupadi), Subadra and Ulupi, his other wives include Supraba and Srikandi.  Hooked your interest?  Here goes …

a] Supraba is a heavenly nymph or Goddess.

She initially tries to seduce Arjun in order to interrupt his penance, but fails Continue reading →

Advertisements

Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 1,482 other followers

Click on cover page below for Goodreads page

Buy Arjun: Without a Doubt. Click on following links!

Download Free! Book excerpt in pdf

Click to download free pdf excerpt

Categories

Posts: Toppers & Winners!

Shyam chi Aai: Sane Guruji, Book Review
Download Free Excerpt (pdf). Arjun: Without A Doubt
Yuganta (end of an era): Irawati Karve, Book Review
Book Cover Design – why, what, how?
Book review: The Flight of the Falcon
Post a Query, Answer a Query

Follow me on Twitter

My Tweets

ArjunTheNovel

ArjunTheNovel

Goodreads

Oven-fresh posts!

  • How to convert Word file of your book into a perfect pdf for paperback printing
  • Arjun’s conquests without the Gandiva bow
  • Book review: The Flight of the Falcon

Blog Stats

  • 33,150 hits

Blogroll

  • Sunil Shinde Sketches Watercolors, Architecture, Urban sketching, Travel sketches, Seattle, India, Greece … Sunil Shinde Sketches Watercolors, Architecture, Urban sketching, Travel sketches, Seattle, India, Greece … 10

Add book to your Goodreads shelf

Arjun: Without a Doubt

I belong to IndiBlogger !


IndiBlogger - The Largest Indian Blogger Community

BlogAdda

Visit blogadda.com to discover Indian blogs
Follow Impractical Dreamer on WordPress.com
Advertisements

Hi there Visitor! Live Traffic

Insync with my wavelength

The Blog Farm

The Blog Farm

Click here to kick me higher on BlogAdda

http://www.blogadda.com/rate.php?blgid=50479

Tick, tick, tick

April 2018
M T W T F S S
« Mar    
 1
2345678
9101112131415
16171819202122
23242526272829
30  

Need a specific word?

Upcoming Events

No upcoming events

Visitor’s opinions

dr sweetyshinde on How to convert Word file of yo…
Indu Reddy on How to convert Word file of yo…
dr sweetyshinde on How to convert Word file of yo…
Mahesh Nair on How to convert Word file of yo…
dr sweetyshinde on How to convert Word file of yo…

Archives

Create a free website or blog at WordPress.com.

Cancel