Week 9 Reading Notes Part 1: Mahabharata

 

  • 10 days into their stay with the people of Benares, Purochana tells the Pandavas of a great house outside the city they are welcome to stay 
  • He describes it as a mansion, but it is really known as haunted
  • Yudhishthira went with his mother and brothers to check it out
  • Upon reaching the house he smelled tar and oil all over
  • Yudhishthira tells Bhima that he believes this house is highly flammable and that they out not to return
  • But they decided to stay so that they did not look suspicious to Purochana 
  • While in their new home, their uncle Vidura, came to visit
  • He told them that on one night this house would be burned to the ground
  • He told them that they should dig a tunnel in order to escape 
  • The Pandavas agreed and started quickly to build this tunnel
  • The Pandavas did so and spent their days hunting and gathering in the forests nearby and always slept with locked doors and their belongings close by

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