Week 9 Story Planning: Into the Arena
This week, I decided to prepare to write a story about The Martial Exhibition Chapter of Krishna Dharma's Mahabharata. This chapter, with its medieval-like descriptions of the training and combat games, reminded me a lot of some of the gladiators of old, with less lethal consequences. This led me to research the background of gladiator type games in ancient India, from Wikipedia , and it turns out that it did briefly become a thing around the last century B.C-first Century A.D. This led down a trail exploring historical time periods of the Mahabharata and its significance. However, this Roman influence is too late to be in the original Mahabharata but is definitely something that could influence later renditions and retellings of the chapter, and definitely a theme I can write into my own story. One final note of this research path is that I didn't realize different parts of the Mahabharata were written in different era's, which actually co...