Reading Notes: Mahabharata, Part C

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  • Duryodhana makes a plan to humiliate the Pandavas. The plan fails as he is captured by the gandharvas and the Pandavas have to save him.
  • The Pandavas come across a lake and they drink from it and they die because they refuse to answer questions. Yudhishthira answers the test from his father Yama and his brothers are resurrected. They are awarded unrecognizability during their 13th year exile.
  • They spend this 13th year in King Virata's court. Draupadi is raped by the queens brother. Bhima squeezes him to death. 
  • Duryodhana gets suspicious when he hears what happens. His ally Susharman proposes a cattle raid. Prince Uttara learns about it and the Pandava's reveal their identity to him. 
  • Uttara (king Vitra's daughter) and Abhimanyu (Arjunas son) are married.
  • They start preparing for war with Duryodhana.
Image source: Bhima and Kichaka

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