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Arjuna and Karna This story was about two brothers battling each other, Arjuna and Karna. In the battle, the brothers are shooting arrows at one another. Krishna and Shalya guided the chariots of Arjuna and Karna, respectively. At one point, one of Karna's arrows struck and severed Arjuna's bow string. Arjuna asked for a pause in the battle out of respective and according to the rules of battle. However, Karna did not care and continued to shooting the arrows. Then Arjuna was able to fix his arrow and fight back. Next thing you know, Karna's chariot was hit and the horse weren't able to advance. Thus, he asked Arjuna to pause the battle, in which he did but Krishna kind of talked him out of it. He mentioned to Arjuna about Karna killing his son Abhimanyu, which brought back Arjuna's anger. Arjuna proceed to shoot at Karna and severed his head. This ended the battle with a brother dying by the hand of a brother. This was kind of a sad story of how a brother died ...

Riddles at the Lake A brahmin asked the Pandava brothers to catch and kill this animal to get the sacred twigs from it. The brothers got tired and went to this lake because they were thirsty. Yudhishthira sent Nakula to the lake first. As he approached it, he heard a voice saying to if he answers a question he can drink the water, but chose to ignore it and continued to drink the water. He died after that. Next, Sahadeva went up to lake wandering about his brother and then also heard the voice. He ignored it and drank the water, which lead to his death. Arjuna went after and heard the voice. He used his arrows and started shooting them. Then he drank water and died. Bhima went to lake too and drank the water, which he died too. Finally, Yudhishthira went to the lake and asked the voice who it was. Voice said it was a yaksha. Yudhishthira agreed to answer his riddles. The voice asked many different types of riddles in which Yudhishthira answered with patients and carefully. H...