The Mahabharata is an ancient text in which:

a son renounces sex so that his old father can remarry
a daughter is a prize in an archery contest
a teacher demands half a kingdom as his tuition fee
a student is turned away because of his caste
a mother asks her sons to share a wife
a father curses his son-in-law to be old and impotent
a husband lets another man make his wife pregnant
a wife blindfolds herself to share her husband's blindness
a forest is destroyed for a new city
a family is divided over inheritance
a king gambles away his kingdom
a queen is forced to serve as a maid
a man is stripped of his manhood for a year
a woman is publicly disrobed
a war is fought where all rules are broken
a shift in sexuality secures victory
the vanquished go to paradise
the victors lose their children
the earth is bathed in blood
God is cursed

until wisdom prevails.

~Devdutt Pattanaik

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(Jaya: The Illustrated Retelling of the Mahabharata)