Friday 1 March 2024

Ramayana and Mahabharata

 

What are the different endings of Ramayana and Mahabharata accoring to Kakbhushundi? Please don't explian his origin, I have read enough answers that only mention his origin etc. I specifically want to know the alternate stories and endings.

Kakbhushubdi saw 11 Versions of Ramayana unfold

Each time a different outcome

The first was an outcome where Dasaratha never took the divine nectar and remained Childless and died at the hands of Ravana and Ayodhya was broken to pieces

Another was Ravana being assassinated by his own son Meghanadh

Another was Laxman dying and Rama losing heart in the battle

Another was Bali killing Sugriva

Another was Ravanas son Mahiravana sacrificing Laxman to a Goddess and the Goddess angered burning down Lanka

Each time Kakbhushubdi flew in circles from the beginning to the end and each time he flew back to a new outcome

The eleventh version was when he saw Ravana die at Ramas hand and Sita was kidnapped by Ravana and this time when he flew back, he flew back to the same outcome meaning this was final and fixed


Likewise Mahabharat saw 16 outcomes

One version saw Bheeshma as a ruler of Hastinapura

Another saw Karna as a ruler of Hastinapura

Another saw Pandu living and ruling Hastinapura

One version saw Ashwatthama unleashing the Brahmastra on the Pandavs Army when Arjuna was out fighting

Another saw a son of Arjuna called Barbarik fire magic arrows and decimate the entire armies of Pandavas and Kauravas including his own father

Finally the sixteenth version saw the present version where Duryodhana finally died


The Moral of Kakbhushubdis tale was that man wrote his own fate and actions of men decided the actions of god

There was a version where Duryodhana was a good man where Shakuni had been murdered by Bhishma

Kakbhushubdi was told that any man becomes good and evil by those around him citing how Duryodhana could have been good and how Ravana could have been good

Yet in every version Kakbhushubdi saw Kamsa killed by Vasudev indicating that Kamsa was always evil


In one version Kakbhushubdi saw Kunti reveal her secret of Karnas birth to a tree which bore a fruit that when made into a juice prompted the drinker to tell the truth that “The one named Radheya is the son of Queen Kunti and a Pandava Putra by birth and law”

When the drinker was set to be executed a divine voice proclaimed his innocence and Kunti admitted the truth

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