Mahabharata - 2025 Penn Bowl

Question

The protagonist of a play based on this text denounces war after realizing his injured thighs can no longer bear his son’s weight. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this text. In another play retelling part of this text, an anguished man offers a disguised visitor armor and earrings in return for an enchanted missile that can only be used once.

ANSWER: Mahabharata [or Mahābhāratam]

[10h] This playwright wrote Shattered Thighs and The Anguish of Karna, which are the only two extant Sanskrit tragedies. Ganapati Shastri rediscovered the lost plays of this author of The Vision of Vasavadatta.

ANSWER: Bhāsa

[10e] This author praised the work of Bhāsa in the introduction to his first play. He drew on the Mahabharata for his play The Recognition of Shakuntala.

ANSWER: Kālidāsa

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2025 Penn Bowl - BU	11/01/25	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - CWRU	11/01/25	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Mainsite (UPenn)	11/01/25	Y	6	11.67	83%	33%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Murray State	11/08/25	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Northwestern	10/25/25	Y	4	12.50	50%	75%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Online	11/08/25	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Ottawa	11/01/25	Y	7	11.43	71%	43%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Stanford	10/25/25	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - UK	11/01/25	Y	9	11.11	100%	11%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - UNC	11/01/25	Y	3	20.00	100%	67%	33%
2025 Penn Bowl - WashU	11/01/25	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%

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Brown	MIT A	0	0	10	10
I've been running into you in my lead plumbocene what could have benzene	Harvard	10	0	10	20
MIT B	Yale	0	0	10	10
Pittsburgh	Michigan B	10	0	10	20
Michigan A	Ohio State A	0	0	10	10
CWRU	Ohio State B	0	0	10	10
Central Oklahoma	Texas B	0	0	10	10
Oklahoma	Texas A	0	0	10	10
Illinois	Indiana	10	0	10	20
Northwestern A	UChicago B	10	0	10	20
Northwestern B	UChicago A	0	0	0	0
Purdue A	Purdue B	10	0	0	10
abg academy	New Young Whigs of America	10	0	10	20
Wake Up Paddington A Washington Mystery	rusty shackleford	0	0	10	10
Ottawa 67s	Aweille Kevin Fan osti continue comme ça	0	0	0	0
Toronto Operation PBSuccess	Guelph perfomative male competition	10	0	10	20
McGill B	Waterloo you are crooked	0	0	10	10
McGill Fartlets	Toronto Murder on the Rider Express	0	0	0	0
Queen's is monitoring the situation	Toronto E	0	0	10	10
Toronto G	Carleton A	10	0	10	20
#OpenToBuzz	Toronto Sunshine Bubbles	10	0	10	20
Columbia A	Mount Sinai	10	0	10	20
JHU A	John Jay	0	0	10	10
JHU B	Maryland A	0	0	0	0
Maryland B	Swarthmore	0	0	10	10
Maryland C	NYU B	10	0	10	20
Columbia B	NYU A	0	0	10	10
Free Win	Berkeley C	0	0	10	10
In Search of Lost Clues	Stanford A	10	0	10	20
The best time to buzz was twenty clues ago. The second best time to buzz is now	Stanford B	10	0	10	20
question mark	Alas poor Warwick, I knew him Edinburgh	0	0	10	10
To buzz is to be perceived	Chimp Brisket	0	0	10	10
Galactic Ombudsmen	1. Wawa 2. Blank Street 151. Black Sheep at Kings Cross rail	0	0	10	10
Knorr Stock Clue	Penn and the Art of Tossup-Bonus cycle Maintenance	0	0	10	10
Paul Quifford, or, It Was a Dark and Stormy Tournament	Hail to the Sheaf	0	0	10	10
Quiztian Bale in Ratman Begins	Of Mice and Penn	0	0	10	10
The Bit and the Penndulum	Coughing Baby	10	0	10	20
Washed Scrubs	Burnaburiash's Lapis Lazuli	0	0	10	10
why is it called a score clue if nobody scores points on it	Bristold	0	0	10	10
Wise Duke	Planck Sinatra	10	0	10	20
UNC A	UNC B	0	0	10	10
VT A	VT B	10	10	10	30
VJ Edgecombe School of Interior Design - Edwardsville	Truman State	10	0	10	20
WashU Bouba	WashU Kiki	10	0	10	20
Brandeis	RIT	0	0	10	10
Berkeley B	Berkeley A	0	0	10	10