Kurukshetra, Drona Parva
The Thirteenth Day
One morning, one wheel of men, one sixteen year old who knew the way in. This is the day the Vyuha Walk is built on, told in beats you can step through. Every beat says whether it is the parva's or a retelling.
A teaching page. The story claims come from the Drona Parva in Ganguli's translation; the sections are named. Where a beat comes from later retellings it says so. Nothing here is a quotation.
The wheel, as the game plays it
Drona holds the front. Duryodhana sits at the centre, the prize the wheel was built to keep. The petal commanders hold the rings between. Jayadratha holds no ring: he holds the breach behind you. The text gives the cast and the order of events; the rings are the game's way of laying them out.
Tap a name on the wheel, or step through the day below.
The day, in beats
· beat 1 of 15
- 01retelling
- 02retelling
- 03the parva
- 04the parva
- 05the parva
- 06the parva
- 07the parva
- 08the parva
- 09the parva
- 10retelling
- 11the parva
- 12the parva
- 13the parva
- 14the parva
- 15the parva
Honest note
The cast, the order of events, Jayadratha's boon, Drona's counsel, the stripping in its order and the mace duel are the Drona Parva's (Abhimanyu-badha Parva, Ganguli, sections XXXIII to XLVII). The text gives no minute counts and no map: the times of day here are the story's pacing, and the rings are the game's. Beats marked retelling come from later tellings the text does not spell out in those words, and are named so. Nothing on this page is quoted scripture. The Vyuha Walk plays this day; its return is the game's own, built on the plan the text states.