- Pink= my story elements
- This story is titled "Princes of the Elephant City" because the city of
Hastinapura translates to Elephant and the Pandava brothers are our princes - Character timeline
- Hastinapura (city)
- Vichitravirya (King of Hastinapura, died leaving two sons)
- Dhritarashtra (older son, but is blind) and Pandu (Becomes king)
- Pandu has children with Madri and Kunti
- Their children become know as the Pandava brothers: Yudhishthira, Bhima, Arjuna, Nakula and Sahadeva
- Duryodhana is the eldest son of Dhritarashtra (who takes over as king after Pandu's passing)
- Dhritarashtra names Yudhishthira as his heir not his own son, Duryodhana
- Hidimba and his sister Hidimbi are the forest monsters that orginnally try to kill the Pandavas
- Hidimbi eventually falls in love and lives happily ever after with Bhima
- For my story I think I will use the names of Hidimba and Hidimbi as the snakes for my Lord Ravana spinoff of Lord Voldemort
- " When he comes home, Kunti tells Arjuna to share whatever he has with his brothers, thinking he has gotten some food by begging. She cannot take back her words, though, so Draupadi becomes the bride of all five brothers"
- This makes so much more sense now!
- Indraprastha: royal city built by the Pandavas
- Could be a place that Lord Ravana attacked, which provides the background for why the ghosts hate Ravana
- Might be used to explain where Draupadi is-she was killed in the attack
- Character Key Points
- Yudhishthira-King, likes gambling (his loss in gambling ends up making the pandavas spend 13 years in exiles with the last year being in disguise (the other brothers resent him for this)
- Arjuna-skilled archer and fighter
- Bhima
- Nakula
- Sahadeva
Painted elephants in India. Web Source
The Princes of Elephant City by C. A. Kincaid (1921)
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