Mahabharat

How dare you, Vidur?!

Divide the Kuru Kingdom!

How could you even suggest such a thing?!

Did the mere thought of this not split your head in two?!

My heart has been split, uncle.

Please pardon me, uncle!

But in a situation like this

this is the only solution I could think of.

Quit with your rambling, Vidur!

This is not a solution but a mockery!

A mockery of our ancestors!

Our ancestors have struggled a lot

and have sacrificed many things to make our Kuru Kingdom

the most powerful one in the entire world!

Just look at our ancestors.

They have built this kingdom of ours.

My revered father Shantanu

made this kingdom powerful.

He augmented the boundaries of this kingdom

and you wish to break it, Vidur?!

But brother Yudhishthir

if uncle Vidur has suggested the kingdom to be divided

then he must have put some thought into it.

Yes, brother Yudhishthir.

He thought of our happiness.

To keep internal conflicts from rising in the Kuru kingdom

he thought of this solution.

But how can the division of our motherland

ever be accepted by us?

But the Great Sage Vyas had said that we must ask for our rights.

Not for us but the subjects of our kingdom.

How can asking for one's rights

equate to dividing the kingdom, Bheem?

My body shall be divided first.

Only then will the kingdom get divided.

Uncle

oil and water

and never kept in the same container.

They can never mix.

Then neither of them is fit for any use.

Uncle

if we wish to make happiness return to Hastinapur

then dividing the kingdom is the sole solution.

Impossible!

I have the right to the entire kingdom, father! Me!

This is my kingdom.

This is my kingdom!

Why should I give half of it to the sons of Pandu, father?!

No one can even dare to think of dividing this kingdom.

Had you told me before, son

that you had seen the sons of Pandu alive in Kampilya

then... - Then what would you have done, father?

Grandsire and the Minister

have always bound you in the name of righteousness.

And you become weak before them every single time.

That is why,

after declaring brother Duryodhan

as King we were going to tell you about it.

Father

making you resort to asceticism

was never my intention.

Grandsire and the Minister are here to serve you.

They can never act as your master.

And whenever it concerns my rights

they always render you weak, father.

Brother Duryodhan is correct, father.

If you do not realize

the importance of your status and position

then why would anyone else?

You must use your might to prove

that your decision is ultimate.

Grandsire will be deeply anguished.

The soul of our father will be deeply anguished, Bheem.

But brother Yudhishthir

Madhav had said that we should have our kingdom.

Would refuting his advice be correct?

Subjects can also be served without gaining polity.

No, Arjun.

Just to gain hold of polity

we cannot have the kingdom divided.

I shall approach His Highness

and step down as the Crown Prince.

Do not forget that His Highness is mighty

but he is so only because of Bhishma and the Minister.

Both of them

the Minister and Bhishma

are the armour and weapons of His Highness.

Till the time the shell keeps a tortoise covered

it does not know defeat.

However, if the tortoise falls to the ground shell first

it begins to squirm!

You seem to be forgetting the might of us 100 brothers, uncle!

The army of Gandhar, the army of Ashwatthama

and that of King Karna of Anga...

When he is backed by these entities

why would father need to be afraid?!

You should demonstrate your might, father!

What do I do now, my sons?

What do I do?!

They had taken to arms in the court, father.

It was an insult to you.

We have a splendid opportunity