Legacy of the Mahabharata

The wind of Kurukshetra no longer carried war cries only silence, and the scent of

dust and death. The eighteen-day war had ended. The Pandavas had won.

But in their victory, they found only ashes. Everywhere they looked fathers,

sons, friends all gone. The field that once glittered with armor

was now a graveyard beneath the sun. When the brothers returned to Hastinapura, no songs were sung.

No flowers adorned the gates. Even the throne seemed to weep. King Dhritarashtra

waited for them the blind father who had lost every son. As Yudhishthira

knelt before him, Dhritarashtra embraced him … and for a moment, forgiveness seemed