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Astra and Vastra - armament and accoutrement - as an actor playing Arjuna, I am impressed by his 'wardrobe' - a warrior dressed to kill!
Wow! I get goose-bumps reading the fierce fight between Arjuna and his arch-enemy Karna in my well-thumbed copy of Mahabharat [MB] - so grippingly graphic! The snake-secreted shaft of Karna shatters the diamond-studded crown of Arjuna, but misses his head as clever Krishna literally put his foot down, lowering the chariot out of range:
''Reft of diadem, the dark complexioned and youthful Partha looked beautiful like a blue mountain of lofty summit. Binding then his locks with a white cloth, Arjuna stood perfectly unmoved. With that white gear on his head, he looked like the Udaya hill illumined with the rays of the sun.'' [MB.bk.8]
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digital painting by Molee Art (Anirudh Sainath)
I read on, highlighting sections that I want filmed:
''Capable of shooting hundreds upon hundreds of arrows, Karna knew not that Partha had a hundred strings to his bow. Tying another string to his bow and shooting many arrows, the son of Pandu covered Karna with shafts that resembled snakes of blazing mouths. So quickly did Arjuna replace each broken string that Karna could not mark when it was broken and when replaced. The feat seemed to him to be exceedingly wonderful. The son of Radha baffled with his own weapons those of Savyasaci. Displaying also his own prowess, he seemed to get the better of Dhananjaya...Krishna, beholding Arjuna afflicted with the weapons of Karna, said ...: "Approaching Karna, strike him with superior weapons." Then Dhananjaya, filled with rage, inspiring with mantras another celestial weapon that looked like fire and that resembled the poison of the snake ... hard as the essence of adamant... uniting the Raudra weapon with it, became desirous of shooting it at his foe.''[ibid]
Arjuna is speedy-fingered - how quickly he re-strings his bow. And he has many strings to his bow, in more senses than one - do you not, dear reader and viewer recall his expertise in dance-moves and playing the strings?
