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Funniest bit yet in Mahabharata
May. 23rd, 2007 03:41 pmThis is the sort of thing that makes me laugh at the goriest bits in slasher flicks.
Apologies for being a bit irreverent about great literature.
It's late in the afternoon of the umpteenth day of the battle at Kurukshetra. Arjuna, our hero, has to kill this other guy (we'll call him A because I can't spell or pronounce his name) by sundown or kill himself because he's sworn an oath to that effect. Battle has been raging all day over a field that is covered in millions of dead people and rather a lot of dead elephants. Krishna (general know it all and God) instructs Arjuna to use a special magic arrow to decapitate A, which he does, and then to fire another magic salvo to carry A's head away before it hits the ground. Arjuna duly does the head transporting thing.
Krishna then explains that all this palaver was because A's dad had got three boons from Siva. (a) A could only be killed by the greatest magic weapon of all (b)he could only be killed by the greatest warrior of all and (c) whoever caused A's head to fall to the ground would have his head explode!
Meanwhile A' s dad is meditating in the lotus position with his eyes closed when he's brought out of his meditation by an object dropping into his lap. It is, you've guessed it, A's head. "WTF" says Dad (as one does when one's son's severed head arrives unannounced) and jumps up. A's head duly falls to the ground and Dad's head explodes.
So the moral of the story is... buggered if I know. But it made me laugh.
I was also reduced to laughing out loud in public today by Mr. Pratchett's immortal take on Chekhov "Vee hav ze grim and pointless trousers of Uncle Vanya".
Apologies for being a bit irreverent about great literature.
It's late in the afternoon of the umpteenth day of the battle at Kurukshetra. Arjuna, our hero, has to kill this other guy (we'll call him A because I can't spell or pronounce his name) by sundown or kill himself because he's sworn an oath to that effect. Battle has been raging all day over a field that is covered in millions of dead people and rather a lot of dead elephants. Krishna (general know it all and God) instructs Arjuna to use a special magic arrow to decapitate A, which he does, and then to fire another magic salvo to carry A's head away before it hits the ground. Arjuna duly does the head transporting thing.
Krishna then explains that all this palaver was because A's dad had got three boons from Siva. (a) A could only be killed by the greatest magic weapon of all (b)he could only be killed by the greatest warrior of all and (c) whoever caused A's head to fall to the ground would have his head explode!
Meanwhile A' s dad is meditating in the lotus position with his eyes closed when he's brought out of his meditation by an object dropping into his lap. It is, you've guessed it, A's head. "WTF" says Dad (as one does when one's son's severed head arrives unannounced) and jumps up. A's head duly falls to the ground and Dad's head explodes.
So the moral of the story is... buggered if I know. But it made me laugh.
I was also reduced to laughing out loud in public today by Mr. Pratchett's immortal take on Chekhov "Vee hav ze grim and pointless trousers of Uncle Vanya".
