An enchanting Kathakali dance unfolds stylistically Bhima's drinking blood from the killed Dusshasana's entrails and tying Draupadi's hair. As the Pandava Kaurava battle revealed battle revealed, the post-Vedic fights were not over animals, but over land-holdings. The end of the Mahabharata war sees a battle royal between Bhima and Duryodhana as depicted graphically in the rare tragedy Urubhangam (The Shattered Thigh) by the classic Sanskrit poet playwright Bhasa.
The king Duryodhana is fallen in the blood-soaked battlefields and his guru Balarama (Krishna's Brother) is visibly incensed at the palpable unfairness of 'striking below the belt' by Bhima at Krishna's instance. Duryodhana bemoans his lot and regrets his past misdeeds. Visited by the parents and son Durjaya, Duryodhana consoles them and urges them to view Kunti and Draupadi as there kith and kin. The battle scarred Ashwatthama the son of Guru Drona turns of looking for a vanish glory in war without the accolade of victory, taunting Durodhana that Bhima has trust his pride and spirit, along with his thise, when he struck him with the mace and seized him by the hair, Ashwatthama vanishes into the night, weapons in hand to slay the Pandava Sons were sleeping.
Drawing from another classic play, andhayug, by Dharamveer Bharti we see the Kaurva king Dhritarashtra, wife Gandhari and there messenger Sanjay- with divine eyesight- confabulating and Ashwathama defing the saga-Vyas , who wants him against unleashing Brahmashatra 'the war had of ultimate destruction' and curses him with eternal perdition of leprosy. The war is virtually over and Gandhari deliver his crushing curse Krishna- 'just as he did not prevent the war save her progeny of one hundred sons from getting slain, Krishna would bear entirely war and himself dying and ignominious death by and ordinary hunter's involuntary'. The doomed destiny is accepted magnanimously by Krishna.
The curtain also arises on Bhishma, the Kaurav great grandfather, wait
