The Mahabharata is an ancient text in which: a son renounces sex so that his old father can remarry a daughter is a prize in an archery contest a teacher demands half a kingdom as his tuition fee a student is turned away because of his caste a mother asks her sons to share a wife a father curses his son-in-law to be old and impotent a husband lets another man make his wife pregnant a wife blindfolds herself to share her husband's blindness a forest is destroyed for a new city a family is divided over inheritance a king gambles away his kingdom a queen is forced to serve as a maid a man is stripped of his manhood for a year a woman is publicly disrobed a war is fought where all rules are broken a shift in sexuality secures victory the vanquished go to paradise the victors lose their children the earth is bathed in blood God is cursed, until wisdom prevails. · · ─────── ·𖥸· ─────── · · This book aims to bring the history of the great Indian Epic Mahabharata and revive Indian culture through the eyes of a great heroine worshipped throughout the country for being a leading figure in feminism and equality. Her name was Yajnaseni. The one who was born from fire. Mahabharata is not just an Epic. It is history. ⋅•⋅⊰∙∘☽༓☾∘∙⊱⋅•⋅ Cover Illustrator: Pennywithaney