What are some lesser known/interesting stories in Mahabharata?

Some people have there own version of story that Dhuryodhan did go to swyamvaar. For them I want to say that there are many versions of Mahabharta and I can't argue that which version of Mahabharata is true because frankly there are many and it is out of my expertise to comment or compare any of them. read more

Having confessed, she went an put the fruit back on the branch of the tree and all was well.A simple story, and not mentioned in many versions, but considered to be an important episode in many folk renditions of Mahabharata and sometimes better known as ‘Jambul-akhyan’, the jambul-episode.Many well known authors and re-tellers of Mahabharat have explored this angle of Draupadi. read more

9. The author of Mahabharata is also a character in the epic! Yes, yes, we all know that there was no one writer who put the Mahabharata together. But as per the story, Satyavati had a son with Sage Parashara before her marriage to King Shantanu. read more

But there is more to the story than just that. These are facts that we have been told over time. There are stories, or rather excerpts, from the epic, that most of us are unaware of. So, we enlisted some of these lesser known tales from the Mahabharata. #1. read more