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The Great Epics
He had made one promise before the war, and he had kept it for eight days.
He had made one promise before the war, and he had kept it for eight days.
Krishna would not lift a weapon at Kurukshetra.
He would drive Arjuna's chariot. He would guide. He would not fight.
The fighting belonged to the warriors whose war this strictly was.
And he held it. He held it through days of fighting that got steadily more brutal, and through losses on both sides that would have given any ordinary man reason enough to break it.
The soldiers had grown used to it. They had watched him hold that line through scenes that pushed every other warrior on the field past his limit.
The rest of this story, read aloud, and a new one every day.