Duryodhana in Bhasa

Dharmo Rakshati Rakshitah.

Stills from Mahabharata, Hindi, 1965.
In Bhasa's Play Dhutavakya- Envoy's Advice,
 Duryodhana insults and ill treats Dharmavira Krishna,
when he requests Pandavas share of the kingdom.
Duryodhana instigates Raudra Rasa.

In Bhasa's Play Urbhanga- Breaking of the Thighs,
 Duryodhana's thighs are broken
by krishna's foulplay executed by Bhima.
Dharma sthana is the 9th house of the zodiac.
The correspondence in the body
of the 9th house are the thighs.
Earlier Duryodhana did not protect Dharma
in Envoy's Advice.
 So Dharma does not protect him now.
And one has only pity for him - Karuna Rasa.
 Karuna Rasa develops out of Raudra Rasa.
 

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