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(Mahabharata Story Table of Contents) // The meaty meat.

(A ~ Z Glossary) // Handy when you're dealing with a cast of hundreds.

(Bibliography and Resources) // To give credit where it's due.

( A Brief FAQ for the Curious and Confused. ) // Behind the cut.

The table of contents, for your reading pleasure.




PART ONE -- BEGINNING

Prologue: Worlds that Were
Chapter One: Hastinapura
Interlude: Karna
Chapter Two: Partings
Interlude: Yuyutsu
Chapter Three: The Gift
Interlude: Drona
Chapter Four: Rose
Interlude: Shalya
Chapter Five: The Contest
Interlude: Karna II
Chapter Six: Dakshina
Interlude: Bhisma
Chapter Seven: Divided
Interlude: Shakuni
Chapter Eight: Night of the Gandharvas
Interlude: Kritavarma
Chapter Nine: Panchala
Interlude: Rukmarath
Chapter Ten: Draupadi
Interlude: Shakuni II
Chapter Eleven: Dice
Interlude: Ashwatthama
Chapter Twelve: Departure


PART TWO -- EXILE

[coming soon]


PART THREE -- WAR

[coming soon]


PART FOUR -- ENDING

[coming soon]

VALID THROUGH: "Interlude: Karna II"
Last glossary update: July 7th, 2008.

Note: This glossary may sometimes be current BEYOND the currently published chapters. It may contain minor spoilers, but never anything major.

( Behind the cut: A ~ Z Glossary of characters, places, and terms. )

Coming eventually in this sticky post: A complete list of every text, website, and person that I've consulted while researching this fic.

This one gets the "badass Duryodhana" icon.

Interlude: Shalya
Chapter Five: The Contest
Interlude: Karna II

Consider this a triple-update for June, July, and August. I need to spend the rest of the summer writing "ahead" in the exile part.

Anyway, enjoy!

Chapter Four: Rose

I'm still working working ahead of one of my betas here, so forgive me for the slow pace.

Anyway, new chapter! If you squint you'll see the first (unnamed) references to an extremely important character whom we'll meet again during the exile part of the story. ;)

Oh wow, I have readers! Which means that I feel pressure to actually update. So, here you go.

Part Six

Part Seven

Su hasn't had a chance to look over these yet, so it's likely that I'll revise them at some future date. But thank you - all two of you - who have been waiting for the next chapters, and for giving me some awesome feedback!

In lieu of posting new chapters (sorry!), I've uploaded the revised versions of chapters 1 through 5. The revisions are a result of my own continuity checks, consultation with steelehearts, and me wanting to change things to get them more in line with later (still unpublished) chapters.

PS - Easy trivia question time. There is exactly one basic food ingredient mentioned in the fic so far that was NOT present when and where the original Mahabharata took place. Hint: It was likely invented in the Mahabharata era, but on the opposite side of the globe.

Okay, it looks like I'm going to go yet another week without uploading Part 7. The reason is that I'm stuck with a massive, er, not "writer's block" per se, but rather editor's block on Part 8. My draft of Part 8 still requires some massive revisions, and for the past two weeks I just haven't been able to do it. And I don't want to post Part 7 until I have Part 8 neatly revised and forwarded to my betas. Sorry, that's just how my brain works. I like to be working a bit ahead of myself.

Thanks for your patience, all two of you who are reading this. ;)

Part Six

In which Arjuna faces his destiny. Sort of.

Part Five

In which we meet Yuyutsu, who has a secret.

Part Four

In which tragedy strikes.

I uploaded a mirror of the fic to fanfiction.net, as I finally found an appropriate category. Links on this journal now point to the chapters on fanfiction.net. If this works out, I'll go ahead and delete the copy on fictionpress.com. The reasons for the move are two-fold:

1. I'm more comfortable thinking of this story as "fanfiction" than "original fiction," and
2. Fictionpress.com's database hiccups and total lack of customer support make me nervous.

Well, we'll see how this goes.

Part Three

In which Karna makes his debut.