DIVINE INFORMATION2-45 Continued from lastposting
Chapter 9. It is Satyavati whois sending the maid to Vyasa. Kunti isKuntibhoja's daughter. His other children: Vasudeva, Ahuka, Kunti, Vikunti,Dharmila. Karna is named so since he came out of the ear (Karna) ofKunti. Hearing the storiesabout Kunti from travellers, Bhisma goes to Kuntibhoja and brings Kunti forPandu. Bhisma also brings Madri. The sage who was killed by Pandu in the forest says thishappened because the sage was cursed by Vasistha. Pandu visits heaven along with sages. When he is at thegate of Satyaloka, he is denied permission because he has no son.At that time son of Gathi gave a boon to Pandu that he will have son. Chapter 10. Satyavati is sadand tells Vyasa that Sauva (Gandhari) hasn't given birth. Kunti tells Panduthe story of the brahmin, Bramharata.He has no son. At his instruction, his wife sleeps with another Brahmin (whowas a guest to Bramharata's house and desired his wife) and gets a child. When Bhima isborn, a lion mistakes Bhima's foot for a stag's face and approaches Bhima tokill him. Bhima kicks the lion with his foot and the lion is killed. Hence thechild is named Bhima. Duryodhana is bornafter Bhima. Chapter 11. Education of Karna When Karna was serving Parasurama, it was Indra whopierced Karna's thigh in the form of a beetle. Chapter 12. Childhood Plays of Kauravas and Pandavas When the childrenwere growing up, the wicked Kauravas increasingly competed with the Pandavas.While playing with sand, the Kauravas started showing falsehood one by one. Allof them used to prick the Pandavas. The Kauravaspushed the Pandavas into false pits. They brought serpents and madethem bite Pandavas on their noses. Due to the kindness of the serpents, theable Bhima became increased in strength of one thousand elephants. Asinstructedby the sons of the king (Dhritarashtra), the cooks brought kakola (apoison), prepared payasam (a sweet dish) and mixed suitably and served it tothe Pandavas. The son of Dharma (Yudhishtira) of pure body, while performing the preliminary ritualsbefore eating, realised that the payasam contains poison. When he walkedaway shaking his hands, the son of wind (Bhima), being extremely hungry,swallowed all the food, morsel by morsel and went off to sleep. He slept on,losing consciousness. Then they (Kauravas) brought creepers, tied his hands andpushed him into the water. Bhimawent down in the water and reached the netherworld (Patalam). There, thehero Vasuki, coiled around him and bit him. Bhima held the serpent by his tail, swung him around andwas about to kill him. Seeing the Nagakanya crying, (Bhima) released theserpent. The relieved Vasuki, recognising ( Bhima ) gave away thejewel of maiden, (Nagakanya) to the hero, the son of wind (Bhima) as wife.Vasuki also presented a lot of jewels (to Bhima). Bhima had a son, Babhrubahu with the beautiful serpentwoman. Bhima left his son with his mother. Then the big fellow (Bhima )left for his city on the ninthday. On another day, allthe children (Kauravas and Pandavas) went to the forest. All the Kauravas went inside a big crater. Seeing this, theson of wind (Bhima) closed the entrance of the crater completely with largeboulders and went home. Missing herchildren, Gandhari started searching all over, calling them. People searched inlakes, wells and forests but could find them. They started wondering what hashappened. They concluded that this must surely be a trick played by the son ofwind(Bhima). The news spread everywhere. Seeing Gandhari pained much, the son of Shantanu(Bhishma)went near the son of wind (Bhima) and told him in private :"This cannot happen without your knowledge and this has become the talk ofthe town. We should solve this without any delay". Along with the son ofwind (Bhima), he (Bhishma) went to the forest. Bhimasena, devoid of any sorrow, opened up the entranceof the crater, went inside and brought all the children (Kauravas) and put themin front of the King (Bhulokapalakan - Bhishma). He told a lie thatthis is the deed of the forest people (Kattalar). The son of Ganga (Bhishma)abandoned confrontation and returned to Hastinapura with the children. All thepeople became happy. Information stored in my computer. Posted to google groupson 24-12-2021.R. Gopalakrishnan I will continue in next posting. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/thatha_patty/1414972226.515712.1640302214564%40mail.yahoo.com.
