Ponniyin Selvan Varalaatru Peravai

Very simple ! Hanuman is the Aid of Sri Rama ! Who is Rama ? He is the incarnation of
Lord Mahavishnu. in Treta Yugam. So naturally he would like to be with Sri Krishna [ratha sarathy!]
in Dwapara Yugam !

vaanchi

I think it was Aravan, son of Arjuna who was sacrificed.

Aravan was given as karabali.

Barbarika cut off his own head

http://www.thepriest.in/2011/04/barbarika-unsung-soldier-of-mahabharata.html

http://www.poetryinstone.in

“*Here the language of stone surpasses the language of man*” – Nobel
laureate, Rabindranath Tagore

I see there are many versions to Aravan’s story.
Tamil traditions[edit
]Selection as sacrificial victim

The earliest source of Tamil traditions regarding Aravan is found in
Peruntevanar’s *Parata Venpa*, a 9th-century Tamil version of the
Mahabharata.[46]
One of the features of this work is its reference to a rite it calls *
kalappali* (“sacrifice to the battlefield”), a term found only in Tamil
versions of the Mahabharata. This is a ritual performed before battle to
ensure victory. In Peruntevanar’s narrative, just before the Mahabharata
war, Duryodhana—the leader of the Kauravas and opponent of the
Pandavas—learns from the Pandava’s expert
astrologer,Sahadeva,
that the day of the new moon ,
indeed the very next day, would be the most auspicious time for a *kalappali
*. Consequently, Duryodhana approaches and convinces Aravan to be the
sacrificial victim for the
*kalappali*.[25]

Here is a link in wikipedia which goes int great details:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iravan

Thanks Babu..didn’t know that Mahabaharata was available online for reading…Had a translated book with me but its in India….thanks for sharing

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Sanjay Khan’s Jai Hanuman showed Hanumanji presence in the flag taking a lot of sting out of the arrows showered on Arjuna.
Also he heard the Bhagwat Geeta from flag of Arjuna !!!!
Complete Mahabharata Translation is available on

http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/maha/index.htm

That is translation verse by verse by Mohan Ganguli.
But Hanuman never leaves Arjuna’s flag till the end.

Mahabharata is very complex book. It is a encyclopedia of Human Psychology.
And at the same time it was a poem recited by sutas before an audience.
So some dramatic scenes are interwoven inside the poem.
Some scenes are mode more dramatic by dragging on the pathos or the tragedy of the scene.
As a Carnatic singer elongates his alapana with kalpana swaras, the more the kalpana the more the beauty of the raga comes out, so with the poem.
Action of Dharmaraja uttering a lie for Drona’s killing and his chariot coming down is one more scene in this !!!
But as the kalpana swaras cannot go out of scope of the raga, the scene cannot be more dramatised to alter the history.
It has to be inside within the framework of Itihasa- that is as what happened.
Various books have been penned on this subject by scholars.
Dhirendranath Pal, a krishna devotee utterly rubbishes this argument of Krishna asking Dharmaraja to utter a lie as to belong completely imagination of the Sutas or Epic reciters and nothing to with history.
He brushes aside the covering of the Sun by Krishna to help Arjuna Kill Jayadratha by making him come out.
Arjuna cuts of Jayadratha’s head and kills it float on the air and moves all along and makes it fall on Jayadratha’s father’s hand and as the head falls on the ground from his hand , father’s head also comes down !!!
This he says is a scene to heighten the intensity of the fight totally created by Sutas as they recite infront of the audience !!!
But if we accept that then what should be we say to
Arunagirinathar’sverse
“Pattapaka vatta thirikayilIravaka !!!!!”