Jai Sriman Narayana !!
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The great epic Mahabharath was composed by
Maharishi Veda Vyasa/Krishna Dwaipayana, son of Sage Parasara and Sathyavati, a
woman from fishermen clan. Mahabharath describes the legend of Bharatha
Dynasty. It was written in 18 Parva such as Adhi Parva,
Sabha Parva, Vana Parva, Virada Parva, Udhyoga Parva, Bhishma Parva, Drona
Parva, Karna Parva, Shalya Parva, Soupthika Parva, Stri Parva, Shanthi Parva,
Anushasana Parva, Ashwamedha Parva, Ashramavasika Parva, Musala Parva,
Mahaprasthanika Parva and Swargarohana Parva and each Parva has divided into
many Upaparva and has chapters in detail. Adhi Parva depicts
the life of King Dushyantha and his wife Shakunthala and their son Sarvadhamanan,
who was famously known as Bharatha, a righteous ruler of Bharatha Empior.
Lord Brahma created deities, Sages and
Prajapathis. It was the beginning of the growth of human race from the
sixty daughters of Daksha Prajapathi. Pururavass, Yayathi,
Puru, Dushyantha, Bharatha, Shanthanu were born in the family of
Dithi, one of the daughters of Daksha Prajapathi.
King Janamejaya, son of King Pareekshit conducted
a grand Yagna to please serpent Gods. There were a huge number of Rishis
& Sages were present in the magnificent Yagna, Maharishi Veda Vyasa along
with his disciple Rishi Vaishampayana and Sage Ugrasrava Sauti was also amongst
them. Rishi Vaishampayana narrated the stories of Kuru Dynasty to
King Janamejaya at the time of Naga Yagna. Later, this anecdote was
described to the Sages and Rishis assembled in Naimisharanya by Sage Sauti, son
of Sage Romaharshana/Lomaharshana, disciple of Maharishi Veda Vyasa.
Rishi Vaishampayana narrated the Sapindakaranam
/Sraddha rituals of King Pandu. The Sraddha rituals of King
Pandu were performed by the Pandavas with the guidance of Bhishma Pithamaha and
the enlightened members of the families. A grand feast was organized and
fed abundance of Brahimns and offered gems, precious stones, wealth as
charity. In this way, Pandavas were sanctified from the impurity caused
by the death of their father. The mourning for the departed soul
continued for quite some time. After the Shraddha ceremony, seeing the
families and subjects of Hasthinapur sunk in the deep sorrow, Maharishi Veda
Vyasa informed his mother Sathyavati that the days of joy and happiness has
gone forever and the omen of misfortune has already begun. The sins has
increased day by day, the Kingdom of Hasthinapur will not survive too long with
the sinners and wrong-doers. Henceforth the good things will
come to an end; the society will be filled with deception and
malevolence. He advised his mother not to witness the destruction of her
own race at her old age and grieve over it, further advised her to accept
Vanaprasthashrama and immerse in meditation through Yoga.
Sathyavati addressed to her daughter-in-laws
about the dreadful consequences of the deeds of her grandsons and the
annihilation of Bharatha dynasty and its
subject, that was informed by her son Maharishi Veda
Vyasa. She exposed her decision to follow Vanaprasthashrama with the
youngest daughter-in-law who was grief-stricken at the death of her dearest son
Pandu. Shortly, Sathyavati met Bhishma and received consent from him too.
Sathyavati with her two daughters-in-law accepted Vanaprasthashrama and
proceeded to woodland. In the forest, Sathyavati immersed in profound
meditation and attained salvation.
As years passed by, the five children of King
Pandu grew up in the palace of Hasthinapur with all those royal comforts and
luxuries. They proved their supremacy in strength and power over the sons
of Drutharashtra whenever they met each other. Bhima/Vrukodhar defeated
the entire Kurus with his immense physical strength; often he exhibited his enormous
strength on the Kauravas due to their arrogance and ignorance, which put them
into chaos. Bhima effortlessly handled the hundred mischievous
Kauravas with his enormous prowess and strength.
The powerful Duryodhana, the eldest amongst the
Kauravas conceived extreme hostility towards Bhima, who has colossal strength
and power. The wicked and outrageous Duryodhana prepared to commit a
severe sin out of ignorance; he found there was no other ways to conquer the
powerful Bhima other than destroy him. His wicked mind engaged in the
constructions of treacherous plans against the Pandavas, once the powerful
Bhima was removed from his way; it was Yudhishtira and Arjuna can be defeat
easily to obtain sole power of the crown as the King of Hasthinapur. Duryodhana
was planned to drown Bhima in the vast current of Ganga. Duryodhana
invited the Pandavas to a recreational palace at Pramankoti, situated on the
banks the river Ganga, filled with multitudes of venomous snakes located far
from the city of Hasthinapur,. The recreational palace constructed was
decorated in an elegant manner with all those richness; it has various sporting
facilities, skilful cooks to prepare spectacular meal and various entertainment
facilities. There were huge numbers of assistants to carry out the orders
of Princes, once the preparation was over it was duly informed to Duryodhana.
The wicked minded Duryodhana invited the Pandavas
to recreational palace at Pramankoti a vast place exclusively for
entertainment. All of them were mounted on elephants and various vehicles
and left the capital of Hasthinapur. Shortly, Duryodhana arrived with his
brothers and Pandavas to the recreational palace and tactfully dismissed the
assistants. Pandavas mesmerized at the exquisiteness of the recreational
palace, the stunning architectural beauty of grand halls, paintings on the
wall, artificial waterfalls, flowers of various fragrances etc.. The Pandavas
and Kauravas sat down on the places allotted and took great pleasure in the
sumptuous meal arranged for them. In the meantime, Duryodhana who
had sugary tongue and razor sharp abhorrence towards Bhima, was already made
evil plan to serve food contained deadly poison to Bhima. At last,
Duryodhana succeeded in his plan, he found immense joy in feeding the food with
the deadly venom to Bhima. Immediately after the meals Pandavas were
taken for water sport, the children found extreme joy in the sports. It
was the time of sunset, all the children got out of the water with intense
fatigue and dressed up, but Bhima was felt terrible exhaustion and slept on the
ground, slowly the venom started working on him, eventually Bhima lost
conscious. Duryodhana who was keenly watching upon the movement of Bhima,
bound him with chords of shrub and threw him into Ganga. Bhima sunk deep
into the water and landed in Naga Loka, the dwelling place of venomous snake
King Vasuki. Bhima was bit by thousands of deadly snakes with their
powerful fangs contains fatal poison. Thus, the poison already
consumed by Bhima was counteracted with the deadly snake bites all over the
body except his chest that was too hard to penetrate. Soon Bhima regained
his consciousness and with all that powers, he forcefully trampled the snakes
under his feet, the deadly snakes were horrified and flew with their lives, it
was duly reported to their King Vasuki. Vasuki and Aryaka, grandfather of
Kunthi arrived on the spot and witnessed Bhima. It was Aryaka realized
Bhima and embraced him. Vasuki learned about all the unfortunate
incidents happened to Bhima and enthusiastically ordered Aryaka to present
Bhima with precious jewels and gems. Aryaka gracefully refused the
treasures and desired to provide Bhima with nectar-vessels that would provide
him the strength of thousand elephants after consuming the same. King
Vasuki gave his approval and the auspicious rites began. Bhima
quaffed off the contents of eight vessels at ease, the serpents of Nagaloka
prepared a comfortable bed for him to relax.
Jai Sriman Narayana !!
