![]() A character in Mahabharata that has been wronged vehemently from the social perspective and of relative deprivation is Karna. Birth, lineage, warfare techniques have a role to play in deciding one's status in that setting. The plot is thick with kings, ministers, commanders, courtesans, mentors, soldiers, etc. The epic Mahabharata is so full of players who mesmerise the casual and serious readers alike. When we have an insight into the same through a prism of investigation a new image, a new perspective emerges. Purpose: A casual look at the phenomena around us gives us a certain image, a certain perspective. Thus, Mahasweta’s story can be read as a profound reorganisation of the Epic tradition as she reinscribes the political Dharma within an ethico-feminist narrative to show it as a phallogocentric circuit enabling the ‘emasculated’ Pandu to perpetuate a male line. As the widowed Kunti reminisces about her sexual encounter with Sun God, Mahasweta’s text retrospectively re-constructs her alternatively conceived female sexuality. Kunti’s sole identity in Mahabharata as the archetypal ‘Mother’/Mourner uncovers the phallocentric constriction of her femininity around the anchoring points of the symbolic father’s authority (as Pandu is not the biological father) and cultural preconditions of maternity. Mahasweta delegitimises the patrilineality of the male kinship structures in Mahabharata to show how ‘Dharma’ rationalises the Kshatriya state’s prohibitions and regulations upon female sexuality through the polyvalence of power entrenched in structures of fatherhood, family formation andĭynastic propagation. The polyphony and heterogeneity of female voices in Mahasweta’s story displace the omniscient narrative voice of Vyasa while recuperating the ‘woman’ Kunti who was contained in the self-reflecting representations of Kshatriyahood. Mahasweta’s text announces and documents the vanishing point of the idealist ethico-political (male) history documented by the Bardic tradition. The climactic encounter between Kunti and the Nishadin strategically deferred till the end of the story, both metaphorically and literally constitutes a confrontation between an ethico-psychological and an ethno-philosophical view of female subjectivity. Mamu of Krishna and the detail of the character or relationship between KansaĪnd Krishna will be provided in last column.“Kunti and the Nishadin” (originally published as Kunti o Nishadin in Bengali) constitutes an ethnological encounter, between the historical subject and the gendered subaltern non-subject. Relationship details specified in last columns. The relationships are mentioned in one column and in next column itĭefines with whom that particular relationship is and basic character and/or I had specified the relationships here in threeĬolumns. Mahabharata in terms of the relationship they hold to some other characters as So here is a series to elaborate characters of Maternal Aunts as Mousi, Paternal Uncles as Tau/Tat Shree/Bade Papa/Kaka/ChachaĮtc. Indian language Maternal Uncles are called Mama/Mamu/Mamashree similarly Paternal Uncle or Aunt of another important or less important character. The relationships then you will found someone will be either Maternal or Relationship remains are of Uncle and Aunts of Mahabharata. So if we ignoreĭirect blood relationships like brother, sister and parents then the In the Hindu Epic or Mythology Mahabharata, all theĬharacters are interwoven to each other and some of the characters are inĭirect blood relationship to some or many other characters. ![]() Shri in Mahabharata and then to the implicit ones. Most famous Mamu’s or the way they have explicitly mentioned as Mamu/Mama/Mama I had listed below all Mamu’s (Maternal Uncles) found It’s quite fascinating that most of the characters in Mahabharata areĬreated based on maternal relations which make many of the Mamu’s as centralĬharacters of that epic. Uncles) than Chachus(Paternal Uncles), Mousis (Maternal Aunt’s) or Bua’s(PaternalĪunt’s). Through the entire Mahabharata you may found there are lot more Mamus (Maternal Among those most of the criticalĬharacters turned out to be Mamu of some or the other characters. Hindu Mythology seems to have too many characters. Word for maternal uncle (The brother of one’s mother). Mamu or Mama or Mamashree, is the Hindi (Indian Language) In this part we will list down all Mamu's of Mahabharata. This is the part one of the series Relationships In Mahabharata.
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