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The Matsya Purana has described Karma Yoga too. It says without Karma Yoga one cannot get Jnana Yoga. This means Karma Yoga is more important.

Knowing Vishrava had great yogic powers, Rakshasa king Sumali wanted to increase his own power through alliances. So decided to make his daughter Kaikesi the wife of Ravana.

Ravana's mother is also known as Keshini and Nikasha. Vishrava left his previous wife Ilavida and son Kubera for her and fathered three sons and one daughter - Ravana, Vibhishana, Kumbhakarna and Shurpanakha.

Actually the condition was proposed by Ganesha when Ved Vyasa requested him to write his narration about Mahabharata. Ved Vyasa was clever too and asked Ganesha that he should understand the verses and then write. At some complex stanzas Ganesha used to pause a bit to understand, and in meantime...

He broke his tusk to continue writing Mahabharata narrated by Ved Vyasa after his pen was broken.

Even during the menstruation period it is adviced in Hindu texts not to do household activities, no exercising and no running.

Yes, it is also said you cannot prevent Doshas imbalance that results with making love during menstruation.

Sati had always wished to marry Lord Shiva. She married Shiva against the will of her father. She is often said being the youngest daughter. She is also addressed as Dakshayani.

Rukmini is also called as Ruciranana, which means a person having beautiful face, just like a lotus flower. She is also addressed as Vaidarbhi for being princess of Vidarbha.

Do you know his first wife was Rukmini, who was the princess of Vidarbha. She was incarnation of Lakshmi, Lord Vishnu's chief consort. Second wife was Satyabhama, who was Lord Vishnu's second wife too. She was an avatar of earth-goddess Bhudevi.

At the Pandavas side Dhristadyumna was the commander-in-chief throughout the war. Krishna was the strategist of Pandava and Shakuni played the same role on the other side.

Do you know after the fall of Bhisma most of the rules were broken. It started with the killing of Abhimanyu on the 13th day of the war.

The weapons with which the Mahabharata war were fought included bow, mace, sword, lance and dart.

Kurukshetra means field of the Kurus. Cousins Pandavas and Kauravas fought Mahabharata for the throne of Hastinapur, which was a Kuru kingdom. Kurukshetra is a place in Punjab today.

You know that it took three years for the two to complete narrating and writing Mahabharata.

Very true, but you know as Ganesha had a playful character so he placed a condition that he will only write if Vyas narrates the story without any pause.

Correct. Lord Brahma once approached the sage and asked him to write the story of Mahabharata as he knew all the characters of it. Vyas was the grandfather of Kauravas and Pandavas, but lived longer. He lived even after the deaths of his grandchildren.

In Vedas it is written moderate consumption of marijuana is way less harmful than the consumption of alcohol or tobacco. It has medicinal values.

The bhang is prepared from marijuana leaves and flowers. It is a brewed drink. Ganja is prepared from dried flower, stems and leaves of it. Charas on the other hand is made from the apex of bloomed cannabis flower.

There is one more story to it. Once Lord Shiva was very hungry and so he consumed leaves from the cannabis plant. He realized it was refreshing and thereafter bhang became his favorite.