#mahabharat fanart

[orgasming-caterpillar]

Bonus:

Hehehehe

[bushichan]

actual lines from the Mahabharata

[callonpeevesie]

this has been in my mind ever since I saw this meme like. years ago so here it is finally. let the record show that I'm a giant revati truther

[kali-rk200]

“Let’s celebrate our twisted fate, we’re the broken ones”

[aneshb25]

'Krishna & Arjun' in response to SuaveBlackSwan 's amazing Mahabharata - A Rewrite ; An illustration of Chapter 15

[teaah-art]

Draupadi and her Five Husbands

Co-hosting a weekly pride drawing prompt thing on Instagram but thought I'd post the work here too!

Week 2's prompt was 'Mortals' and I chose to portray the one and only mythological examples of polyandry to my knowledge - Draupadi who was married to 5 Pandava brothers.

[Dense Hindu canon ramble up ahead]

Back in the day, princesses could choose their own husbands and a sort of a courtship contest would be held to win the princess' hand and prove yourself to her. This custom was called swayamvar (swayam = self, var = husband) and all 5 Pandav brothers, princes themselves, participated in Draupadi's Swayamvar. Arjun won the contest, and keeping royal politics in background among other things, Draupadi agreed to marry Arjun. When the five brothers returned home, and told their mother 'Look what/who we brought home' (non-translatable wordplay), their mother said without looking, 'Split (it) between the 5 of you'. Here's where the story and interpretation goes awry. Most modern interpretations depict Draupadi as being tortured, forced to marry 5 MEN! No eyebrows are raised when a king marries 5 women though. Krishna, a king from the same story, had 16,000 wives and several relationships outside of wedlock. Never is Krishna portrayed as tortured and oppressed.

Draupadi was fire herself — that's not a metaphor. She was born of the fire of vengeance her father had for a childhood friend. She would not have stayed in a situation she was forced in. The Pandavas even had a set up where the other brothers wouldn't interrupt Draupadi's time with one of them. Each Pandava themselves also had multiple relationships with other women but Draupadi was still their queen consort (patrani).

Despite modern interpretations, misogynistic interpretations, queerphobic interpretations, I would like to believe their relationship(s) were an early example of ethical nonmonogamy and polyamory. And being the protags of the epic, it also reflects how acceptable this would have been perhaps at some point in time. We may never know for sure, but one can hope....

[aldemochizuki]

2022的年终总结TvT

p1~p6是今年画得比较满意的，p7~p9是今年翻译得比较满意的，不难看出高考完飞速爬进他印之后，又被已经很久没搞的匈国音乐剧跳起来殴打。…

[eternalkauravstan]

I had never searched Mahabharat fandom(or any other hindu mythology related stuff) on Tumblr .I don't know why I didn't do it earlier but few days ago I did it, and the first thing I saw was karna/duryodhana fanart and holy moly, my jaw dropped cuz it was so beautiful and it got me in this ting ship fandom.Bless those who made such gorgeous fanart especially that Russian artist who made that pic where duryodhan was caging our ang-raj from behind *ahhhh***chief's kisses👀👀👀.

Haye ram I need and I mean NEED to see that PICTURE. Also my love for Russian durykarn fic writers or fan artists would never waver they're the only thing good about the world right now

[as-the-clouds-part]

Daughter of fire 🔥

@lemponkoria @incorrectmahabharatquotes

[browsing-my-favourite-fandoms]

Eklavya, a brilliant archer who deserved way better treatment, my beloved

[bushichan]

the dynamic between karna and duryodhan is 😔 🥵

[callonpeevesie]

Inspired by this wonderful post. Chaotic genderfluid god squad let's go ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ

[kali-rk200]

Duryodhana/Karna

[aneshb25]

“What are you doing, Parth?”, he whispered. He didn’t reply. Instead, he leaned up and placed a kiss on Madhav’s cheek, feeling his hands trembling. Arjun then woke up with a start.

Inspired from Mahabharata - A Rewrite by SauveBlackSwan, Chapter 14

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[teaah-art]

Story Time with The Monk and Arun!

TW : Blood, gore, blood mention, gore mention

CW : Child Death

Transcript in ALT

The Monk and Arun know many stories! They will pop in frequently on here to tell you some stories.

Here's a story about the birth of Jarasandh - a king from the kingdom of Magadh who appears in the Mahabharat!

As for why The Monk and Arun have time to kill and tell us tales? Well, they have their own stories you can read all about on Webtoon!

See you next time with another story!

[ilmacore]

Someday all finish the background but here is the idea!!! I want it to this like an old CN show so ªªª...👉👈