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Orissian Palm Leaf Manuscript illustrating the Mahabharata
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The Mahabharat, Book 6: Bhishma Parva; Canto 120-122
This illustrates the death of Bhishma. He felled in battle by a reluctant, ashamed and tearful Arjuna pierced by innumerable arrows. As Bhishma fell, his whole body was held above the ground by the shafts of Arjuna's arrows which protruded from his back, and through his arms and legs. He asked Arjuna to give him a pillow fit for a warrior. Arjuna then removed three arrows from his quiver and placed them underneath Bhishma's head, pointed side upwards. To quench the war veteran's thirst, Arjuna shot an arrow into the earth, and a jet stream of water rose up and into Bhishma's mouth.
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![Orissian Palm Leaf Manuscript illustrating the Mahabharata
[url=http://sacred-texts.com/hin/m06/m06120.htm][u]The Mahabharat, Book 6: Bhishma Parva; Canto 120-122[/u][/url]
This illustrates the death of Bhishma. He felled in battle by a reluctant, ashamed and tearful Arjuna pierced by innumerable arrows. As Bhishma fell, his whole body was held above the ground by the shafts of Arjuna's arrows which protruded from his back, and through his arms and legs. He asked Arjuna to give him a pillow fit for a warrior. Arjuna then removed three arrows from his quiver and placed them underneath Bhishma's head, pointed side upwards. To quench the war veteran's thirst, Arjuna shot an arrow into the earth, and a jet stream of water rose up and into Bhishma's mouth.](albums/userpics/36484/normal_Orissian_Leaf_002.jpg "Click to view full size image
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Orissian Palm Leaf Manuscript illustrating the Mahabharata
[url=http://sacred-texts.com/hin/m06/m06120.htm][u]The Mahabharat, Book 6: Bhishma Parva; Canto 120-122[/u][/url]
This illustrates the death of Bhishma. He felled in battle by a reluctant, ashamed and tearful Arjuna pierced by innumerable arrows. As Bhishma fell, his whole body was held above the ground by the shafts of Arjuna's arrows which protruded from his back, and through his arms and legs. He asked Arjuna to give him a pillow fit for a warrior. Arjuna then removed three arrows from his quiver and placed them underneath Bhishma's head, pointed side upwards. To quench the war veteran's thirst, Arjuna shot an arrow into the earth, and a jet stream of water rose up and into Bhishma's mouth.")
