Week 11, Reading Diary A: Buck's Mahabharata

• Ganesh had his head ripped of by Shiva and had it replaced with an elephant head. 
• Ganesh then writes down the Mahabharata recited to him by Vyasa.
• Vishnu, the devas and the asuras got together and churned the milk ocean in order to get the nectar of immortality. 
• The nectar was produced but so was Lakshmi, Rambah, the apsaras, Indra's vahana, and a lucky cow.
• Poison was also produced but Shiva swallowed it to save the earth.
• Ganga marries Shantanu after his fathers death and he becomes king.
• She gives birth to seven vasus which she kills but after being begged to keep the eighth she does. This little guy becomes known as Bhishma.
• King of Chedi knocks up a fish witch gives birth to Satyavati.
• Satyavati has a child with a sage, Parashara. The child is then named Vyasa.