This part of the story got more interesting to me, as I have read part of this section previously. This section caught my attention and got me hooked to listen to it more. It started with the Panduvas making it to the palace where they were to stay for their banishment. Not much of a banishment if they are staying in a palace, but thats alright. One of the brothers sees that the building is covered in oil and lets everybody know that about the plan to kill them all that he found out. So, they begin to dig a tunnel, the tunnel was supposed to go from the palace to the forrest. A few days later after the tunnel had been finished, the captain set fire to the palace, but the Panduvas went into their tunnel and escaped. The captain found the bodies of some beggars in the building and thought his mission was finished. He went crazy then and began to set a fire on the guard house. That fire got so big that it killed all the guards and he got caught in it to and it killed him too. Draupadi goes to a city where the whole place is under siege by Bukah, a man eating monster. He eats flesh for a tax to guard the story. Each family has to take turns on sacrificing a person to Bukah. Draupadi was at someone’s house whose turn it was, and she wished that her son was there to help them. When she thought that he came and killed Bukah. Panduvas began to gamble with Kama and lost everything that they owned to him. Including themselves, then they were banished to the forest for 12 years. Because they were good people the followed the rules of what they said they would do and went into banishment.
Sources used: Arnold, Besant, Devee, Dutt, Ganguli, Kincaid, Macfie, Mackenzie, Nivedita, Seeger, and Tagore.
Kunti and Pandavas Escape
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