Mahabharata: The Greatest Spiritual Epic of All Time. by Krishna Dharma, 2008 (source)
Arjuna is headed to heaven! But he's just visiting because he needs to borrow some weapons.
First there is a journey! But Arjuna has mountains to climb and people to see so he travels quickly.
The mountain top is for fasting and meditating and balancing on one leg to get the attention of the gods.
Eventually the gods start to show up! Arjuna gets one weapon from Indra, who promises him more if he meets and makes nice with Shiva.
Shiva shows up as a hunter - They both shoot at the same animal and then they fight! They fight with so many arrows it's amazing there are any trees left anywhere. (Even though the quivers Arjuna had were never ending... where did the arrows/wood/etc come from????)
Shiva eventually wins when Arjuna figures him out and stops fighting. So he gets another weapon from Shiva and then more from Indra. He ends up with so many weapons. Visiting heaven: Success!
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