Originally Posted by aghora

numeruno...of pandavas am aware of following stories: a rishi once cursed lord yama for awarding him punishment for being cruel to insects when he (i.e. rishi was a kid); thus was yudhishtir born. arjun was constant companion of krishna and was rishi nar who performed austerities at badrinath with narayana. am unaware of any other stories - please enlighten if you know of any other. story about indra as ant shows that even indra (the highest of gods other than trimurti) is subject to the laws of material nature and though he once attained that exalted position, he can fall to the lowest form of life based on karma. further it seeks to demonstrate the sheer enormity of time - 100 years of life of brahma is equivalent to 311 trillion earth years - satya, treta, dwapar and kali yuga form 1 mahayuga; 1000 mahayugas make 1 kalpa (day in the life of brahma, his nite being of equal duration); 360 such days comprise 1 year in his life. presently we are around 5000 years in kali yuga (total duration = 432,000 years) and in the 50th year if brahma...