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Yuganta 14-14

The Pandavas established the city of Indraprastha and performed a great sacrifice to celebrate their conquests. At the ceremony, Dharma acknowledged Krishna as the most honorable guest. When Shishupala protested Krishna's honor, Krishna killed him. The Kauravas grew jealous of the Pandavas' success and challenged them to a dice game, where they lost everything. They spent 13 years in exile, including a year of disguise at the court of King Virata. This led to war between the Pandavas and Kauravas, which the Pandavas ultimately won after 18 days of battle.

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Yuganta 14-14

The Pandavas established the city of Indraprastha and performed a great sacrifice to celebrate their conquests. At the ceremony, Dharma acknowledged Krishna as the most honorable guest. When Shishupala protested Krishna's honor, Krishna killed him. The Kauravas grew jealous of the Pandavas' success and challenged them to a dice game, where they lost everything. They spent 13 years in exile, including a year of disguise at the court of King Virata. This led to war between the Pandavas and Kauravas, which the Pandavas ultimately won after 18 days of battle.

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At Indraprastha the Pandavas attracted merchants and craftsmen to this new city, and

augmented their land by burning the forest and killing its inhabitants. They built a
fabulous palace called Mayasabha and then started on a “world conquest.” As
culmination of their conquest, they performed the great rajasuya sacrifice, where Dharma
was acknowledged as first among all the kings.
Dharma in his turn had to honour the kings invited for the sacrifice. At this ceremony
Dharma offered the first seat of honour to Krishna who had been his closest ally and
adviser. When Shishupala protested against honouring Krishna, thus threatening to break
up the assembly, he was killed by Krishna. Among the chief guests at the sacrifice were
Bhishma, Dhritarashtra, his sons and Vidura. The Kauravas were dismayed at witnessing
the glory of the Pandavas. To win back what they had conceded to the Pandavas, they
planned a dice game with the kingdom as stakes. Dharma loved to play dice but was not
very skilled. Duryodhana’s uncle Shakuni, playing with loaded dice, defeated him and
the Pandavas lost everything they possessed. According to the conditions set, they had to
go out into the forest for twelve years and remain incognito for another year. The
Pandavas could only comply.
They lived the final year in disguise as servants at the court of King Virata. When
Kichaka, Virata’s brother-in-law and army commander, threatened to seduce Draupadi,
he and his brothers were killed by Bhima.
The Pandavas had lived a year in Virata’s capital when the Hastinapura cousins
together with Trigarta, a neighbouring king, planned to raid the cattle of Virata. Trigarta
marched first from one direction. King Virata and Bhima went against him and routed
him. Meanwhile Duryodhana and his warriors attacked from another side. Virata’s young
son Uttara with Arjuna as his charioteer went to fight the invaders. When the prince took
the reins, he went to the place where he and his brothers had secreted their weapons, took
his great bow and defeated the enemy. On the Pandavas’ revealing themselves Virata
gave his daughter to Arjuna’s son Abhimanyu.
Now all the related clans of Yadava, Drupada, Pandava, along with Virata gathered in
Virata’s capital for consultation. Krishna was sent to Hastinapura on behalf of the
Pandavas to demand a share of the kingdom, but Duryodhana refused to give anything
and preparations for war were made by both sides.
The war lasted eighteen days. Bhishma who commanded the army of Duryodhana was
wounded by Arjuna on the twefth day. Drona took over command. He was killed on the
fifteenth day. Then Karna took over. He was killed on the seventeenth day. Shalya and
Duryodhana were killed before the evening of the eighteenth. The Pandavas were
victorious. The same night Drona’s son Ashvatthama attacked the Pandava camp and
killed drunk and sleeping warriors among whom were Draupadi’s brothers and sons.
Through Krishna’s foresight, the Pandavas with Draupadi were saved. The Pandavas
gave shelter to the father and mother of Duryodhana and ruled in the ancestral capital of
Hastina-pura. After some years, Dhritarashtra, Gandhari, Vidura and Kunti retired to the
forest where they all died. A few years after this, most of the Yadavas, including Krishna
and his brother Balarama, were killed in a quarrel among themselves. Arjuna brought to
Hastinapura the remaining Yadavas and settled the descendants of each line as kings of
small townships. The Pandavas could not live after the horrible end of the Yadavas. They
crowned Parikshit, the posthumous son of Abhimanyu, as king at Hastinapur, and started

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