Mahabharata Episode 17: The Game of Dice

In this series of posts, I am reconstructing the Mahabharata as a sequence of episodes. This will provide a quick and easy way for someone new to the story to become acquainted with it.

(For the previous post in this series, see Episode 16: Krishna Kills Shishupala. To access the full repository of Mahabharata episodes, see: 55 Mahabharata Episodes that Tell You the Whole Story.)

Here’s what we will cover in this episode:

Prophecy of VyasaYudhishthir’s DecisionDuryodhana Slips into ...