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- While reading the Mahabharata, I felt that there wasn't a good enough reason for Duryodhana and his brothers to hate the Pandava brothers so much. They are cousins, they were raised together, and the Pandava's aren't particularly cruel or lacking in virtue. The story states in various places that the Pandavas play tricks on their cousins, that the cousins are jealous of the abilities of the Pandavas, and that the Kauravas are the incarnation of pure evil. The tricks aren't reason enough for the overwhelming hatred and if jealousy alone is enough to make you murder your own cousins, then you have to be very bad people. However, there is no support for the claim that the Kauravas are evil. How and why are they evil? Their heritage and family was good, so where exactly did this evil come from? There is no reasonable explanation for it.
- Since the idea of the Kauravas being evil just to be evil doesn't have any supporting evidence, then the best possible explanation is that the "tricks" that the Pandavas played on their cousin were far more harsh and unkind than simple children's tricks would imply. Another possibility is that Duryodhana believes that one of their "tricks" resulted in a tragedy that wasn't really caused by the prank that the Pandava's played. That would be a more logical explanation for the abiding hatred.
- A story about the boy's childhoods, detailing some of the tricks and the trick that had the supposed tragic ending would flesh out the conflict between the two sets of brothers.
Bibliography: Mahabharata by Narayan. Web Source.
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