The Palace of Illusions

Pandavas

She was the only consort that dared accompany the

To see a loved one in pain is more wrenching than to bear that pain yourself.

Before this, I had never addressed a crowd, though I recalled Dhri’s tutor discussing, earnestly and at length, the importance of powerful words. He’d said they were the sharpest and subtlest of weapons. It was crucial for rulers to use them correctly, swaying their audience with the appropriate intonation, tugging at their hearts as a master music

Wisdom that isn’t distilled in our own crucible can’t help us.

skirmishes

The pleasures that arise from sense-objects are bound to end, and thus they are only sources of pain. Don’t get attached to them. And: When a man reaches a state where honor and dishonor are alike to him, then he is considered supreme. Strive to gain such a state. Uttara was too distracted by her own

Sahadev wondered if Duryodhan hadn’t used

Each day countless humans enter the Temple of Death, yet the ones left behind continue to live as though they were immortal.