Mahabharata Episode 40: Yudhistir and the Crane

The Stories of Mahabharata

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🗓️ 22 August 2016

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Yudhistira and Yaksha

The four Pandava brothers, Bheem, Arjun, Nakul and Sahadev die while trying to fetch water from a lake. When Yudhistir finds the lake, he meets a mysterious crane who claims to have killed his brothers. The crane challenges Yudhistir to answer his questions. If Yudhistir can give him satisfactory answers, his brothers live. Else they all die. Was Yudhistir able to revive his brothers? Listen to this exciting new episode of the Stories of Mahabharata.

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0:00.0	The stories of Mahabharata retold by Shudipha Bomik. the bermic.
0:26.7	Welcome dear friends to another episode of the stories of Mahabharata. In the last episode we heard how Indra tricked Karna to give him the armor and earring with which Karna was born.
0:36.4	In return, Karna received the A-Kagni weapon to kill his arch rival, Arjun. Oh, It was sitting under a people tree with his brothers.
1:05.0	It was a fine morning in the Kamnyaka forest.
1:10.0	Yudishir was sitting under a people tree with his brothers discussing their strategy for the 13th year.
1:18.0	When a Brahmin came and stood before them,
1:22.0	Yudishir looked at him and said,
1:25.0	O Brahmin, what brings you here?
1:28.0	Is there something we can do for you?
1:31.0	The Brahmin with folded palms said,
1:34.6	Oh, King Judishir, I have a serious problem.
1:38.6	I had kept my bo-drill hanging in a tree branch. A deer came to eat the leaves of the tree and somehow
1:46.7	the bow got stuck in his antlers. The deer got scared and ran away with the boarrel. We tried to catch the deer but failed.
1:55.3	Please, King, help us get back our boarrill. Without it I won't be able to light the
2:01.9	fire for my evening worship.
2:04.8	Yudishtin knew the seriousness of the problem.
2:08.6	The Brahmins used the bow drill to light fire, and missing the evening fire worship is something they cannot afford to do.
2:17.0	Yiddisht is stood up and said, don't worry, we will find the deer and get your boedrel before your evening worship.
2:27.2	He turned to his brothers and said, Let's go.
2:31.0	The Pandava brothers picked up their weapons and walked into the forest looking for the deer.
2:37.0	A little later, they found the deer with a bow drill stuck on its antlers.
2:43.0	Naku raised his bow and aimed to shoot the deer.
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