Mahabharata Parva 85: The Stri Parva
The Mahabharata is a collection of hundred Parvas (or ‘sections’) that tell the story of a long-standing family feud between two sets of cousins – the Kauravas and the Pandavas – for control of the Kuru throne in Hastinapur. The climactic event of the story is an eighteen-day war that …