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STORIES · THE MAHĀBHĀRATA · Bengali & Assamese · regional retelling

Kashiram Das's expanded Mohini and Shiva

Variant

The Bengali Mahabharata cut the Gita but expanded Mohini.

Kashiram expands a two-line Sanskrit shloka into a full tale of Vishnu's female form enchanting Shiva, and omits long philosophy such as the Gita for Bengali narrative singing. He also freely added legends (unspecified on the page).

Who: Vishnu as Mohini, Shiva

Bound to

Aravan's one-night marriage to Krishna as Mohini mirror

Places: Bengal

Where this comes from

• regional-literary · Wikipedia: Kashidasi Mahabharata

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