Mahabharat Mystery: The war of Mahabharata was not only a game of weapons, but it was also an arena of conspiracies and diplomacy. The mastermind of this entire game was Gandhara king Shakuni. Shakuni had dice that obeyed only him, but where did those dice go after Shakuni’s death? This remains a big mystery even today.
Those magic dice were made of bones
According to mythology, Shakuni’s dice were not made of ordinary wood or stone. It is said that these dice were made from the spinal cord of Shakuni’s father King Subal. While dying, King Subal had told Shakuni that after his death, dice should be made from his bones, which would contain a part of his soul. This was the reason that whenever Shakuni threw the dice, they showed only the numbers that Shakuni wanted.
What happened after the killing of Shakuni?
In the Mahabharata war, when the Kaurava army started getting defeated one by one, Shakuni also entered the battlefield. Ultimately he was killed by Sahadev, the youngest brother of the Pandavas. Sahadeva had vowed that he would definitely take revenge for his insult from Shakuni, and during the war he fulfilled this promise. As soon as Shakuni died, the magical power of those dice also started weakening. But two main beliefs are prevalent regarding the future of those dice.
Lord Krishna destroyed: According to popular legends, Shri Krishna knew that these dice were a symbol of injustice and vengeance. If these dice fell into someone’s hands in the future, they could again cause destruction. It is said that Krishna destroyed those dice somewhere in the land of Kurukshetra or drowned them in deep water.
Gandhara was taken back: According to some other beliefs, after the death of Shakuni, the remaining soldiers of Gandhara took those dice back to their kingdom, but without Shakuni, those dice remained just ordinary bones and with time got mixed into the soil.
Do those dice still exist today?
Historians and researchers believe that the magical dice were actually a symbol of Shakuni’s illusionism and mathematical skills. In today’s time, no physical evidence of those passes is found. According to the scriptures, it is believed that with the end of Dwapar Yuga, such illusory objects were also destroyed.
Also read: Lord Krishna is the hero of Mahabharata, but Shakuni is not the villain.
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