Download or read book The Pregnant King written by Devdutt Pattanaik and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2008 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the many characters who inhabit the Mahabharata, the world's greatest epic and the oldest, sometimes other stories unravelled from it, such as Shilavati, who cannot be king because she is a woman.