Well that sent me off on a rabbit hole looking up the possibility of influence between the Iliad and the Mahabharata. Stumbled on this reddit thread where the collision between the our contemporary Indian mythos and modernity is in full show. I should have just enjoyed the bit of the poem you suggested 🙈 https://www.reddit.com/r/hinduism/comments/n3qiqy/was_mahabharata_just_an_indian_retelling_of_iliad/
It is definitely a poem worth devoting one's attention to. I've never heard of it being a reworking of The Iliad, but I did hear just last week from some pretty high level academics that Donald J Trump is actually the original author, and that the brokerage of a ceasefire is on schedule to air next week!
In another poem, a defeated king named Dhritarashtra embraces the killer of his son.
Well that sent me off on a rabbit hole looking up the possibility of influence between the Iliad and the Mahabharata. Stumbled on this reddit thread where the collision between the our contemporary Indian mythos and modernity is in full show. I should have just enjoyed the bit of the poem you suggested 🙈 https://www.reddit.com/r/hinduism/comments/n3qiqy/was_mahabharata_just_an_indian_retelling_of_iliad/
It is definitely a poem worth devoting one's attention to. I've never heard of it being a reworking of The Iliad, but I did hear just last week from some pretty high level academics that Donald J Trump is actually the original author, and that the brokerage of a ceasefire is on schedule to air next week!
Bit of a fascinating hot take isn't it? Surprises me a lot more than the divine leader taking the time to write it 🤣