Adi Parva from Mahabharata by The Maniac

Adi Parva is the first book of the Mahabharata. It details how the kuru clan came to be. Why Bheeshm took the vow of celibacy and abdicated his right to rule Hastinapura. How the Pandava brothers were begotten from Celestial Gods. The hatred of Duryodhana and his 99 Kaurava brothers towards his Pandava cousins and the times they tried to have them assassinated. Of Karna's friendship and loyalty towards Duryodhana. Of the royal competition between the cousins in warfare and how Karna was humiliated by the citizens, but was immediately named king of Anga, a vassal state of Hastinapura. Adi Parva ends with Dhritarashtra, king of Hastinapura and father of Kauravas naming Yudhishthira, eldest of the Pandavas as heir apparent to the throne.

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