Vyasa's Mahabharata by Chitra Krishnan
GV - L2
Category
Non-Fiction
Sub
Spiritual Books
Language
Malayalam
Available for Borrowing
Quick Look:
MLNFSP-VMa-001 Vyasa’s Mahabharata is a book full of quirky illustrations of the Mahabharata, making it interesting for a child to go through many times. The drawings that are made with crayons will make the epic enjoyable and easy to understand for kids between the years of six and nine.
Summary of the Book
There is no child who has not heard of the Mahabharata. It is a tale that has been passed on from generation to generation and is usually narrated to us by our grandparents or parents. This book is a fresh approach to the great epic. It introduces the child to the background of the Mahabharata, explains how it became a book, who wrote it, and who the narrator was. It starts off with how Vyasa’s head was in a whirl with different ideas just gushing like water into his mind. He needed to pen them down, but because of the speed at which the thoughts were flowing in, he needed to pen them fast. For this, he meditated and called for the help of the great and learned Brahma. On his appearance, Brahma told Vyasa that the perfect person to do his job would be the one and only, Ganesha. Even though Ganesha agrees to help him, he says that it can be done on only one condition: Vyasa has to narrate the story in a continuous flow, and if he hesitates then Ganesha stops writing for him. However, the clever Vyasa tricks Ganesha into slowing down whenever he needs a breather for the story.
Vyasa’s Mahabharata is a book full of quirky illustrations of the Mahabharata, making it interesting for a child to go through many times. The drawings that are made with crayons will make the epic enjoyable and easy to understand for kids between the years of six and nine.
Summary of the Book
There is no child who has not heard of the Mahabharata. It is a tale that has been passed on from generation to generation and is usually narrated to us by our grandparents or parents. This book is a fresh approach to the great epic. It introduces the child to the background of the Mahabharata, explains how it became a book, who wrote it, and who the narrator was. It starts off with how Vyasa’s head was in a whirl with different ideas just gushing like water into his mind. He needed to pen them down, but because of the speed at which the thoughts were flowing in, he needed to pen them fast. For this, he meditated and called for the help of the great and learned Brahma. On his appearance, Brahma told Vyasa that the perfect person to do his job would be the one and only, Ganesha. Even though Ganesha agrees to help him, he says that it can be done on only one condition: Vyasa has to narrate the story in a continuous flow, and if he hesitates then Ganesha stops writing for him. However, the clever Vyasa tricks Ganesha into slowing down whenever he needs a breather for the story.
