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MAHABHARATA

Episode Three — The Scribe
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The Scribe

Brahma retires, having set the word of the Bharata in motion. In the hermitage, the blue Rishi wakes from his vision and calls upon Ganesa the Ekadanta to be the scribe of the great poem — but first he must bring his self-restraint as an offering, and write without resting the pen. Wherever the Rishi utters a verse the elephant-faced one has not paused to understand, the writing stops — and so the holy labour is bound together, verse and understanding, as long as the Rishi speaks true. And the young Sauti, the Purana-reciter, bears the tale of the tellers here at the lamps of the Naimisha forest.

Characters

Ugrasrava Sauti — the young Purana-reciter, narrating the history of the Bharata to the assembled Munis.
Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa — the blue Rishi, composer of the great poem, who sets the conditions of its writing.
Ganesa (Vinayaka) — the elephant-faced Lord, the Ekadanta, who becomes the scribe of the Bharata.

Credits

Presented by
Dreamgirl Industries
Production
A Hermia Production
Directed & produced by
Hermia
Based on
The Mahabharata
Translated from the Sanskrit by
Kisari Mohan Ganguli (1883–1896)
Produced at
Atlanta, Georgia
Our thanks to the translators and custodians who have kept this great epic alive for the world.