I would use them over the long years of exile to gain what I wanted, no matter what its price. The Palace of Illusions - read free eBook by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni in online reader directly on the web page. When the moment came I couldn't resist it, no more than a dog can resist chewing a bone that, splintering, makes his mouth bleed.Īlready I was storing these lessons inside me. But I, too, was tainted with them, vengeance encoded into my blood. She says of her husband, He had glimpsed the truth of existence that went beyond the world of the senses that lay around us, this oscillating world of. I'd thought myself above the cravings that drove him. Panchaali relates the stories of Arjun’s encounter with Shiva, his visit to Indra’s palace, his refusal of the celestial dancer Urvasi, and the subsequent year he must spend as a eunuch. All this time I'd thought myself better than my father, better than all those men who inflicted harm on a thousand innocents in order to punish the one man who had wronged them. He knew he would regret it-in his fierce smile there had already been a glint of pain.īut was a woman's heart any purer, in the end? That was why he incited Dussasan to an action that was against the code of honor by which he lived his life. That was why he turned on me when I refused to ask for his pity. That was why Karna waited for me to plead with him though he could have stopped my suffering with a single world. “For men, the softer emotions are always intertwined with power and pride.
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