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 !!
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