Mahabharata Episode 8: The Flaming House of Varanabata

The Stories of Mahabharata

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🗓️ 20 August 2014

⏱️ 21 minutes

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The Flaming House of Varanabata

The stories of Mahabharata continues with this eighth episode – The Flaming house of Varanabata. With the advice from Shakuni, Duryodhana comes up with a devious plan to kill the Pandavas. Dhritarashtra sends the Pandavas to Varanabata to attend a festival. But the Pandavas escape the trap set for them and flee into the forest. There Bheema encounters the demons Hidimb and Hidimbaa. Listen to this exciting episode in the podcast below.

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0:00.0	The stories of Mohabharata.
0:20.0	Welcome to your friends to another episode of the Stories of Mahabharata.
0:26.1	In the last episode, we heard
0:28.1	how the Kuru princess paid their Guru Dakshina
0:31.0	to their teacher Drona by capturing King Druppad for him.
0:35.3	We also learned how Dritrastra was forced to declare Yiddishtira as the crown prince of
0:41.5	Hastinapur. One day, Trittrastra called uponudishtar and said,
1:03.4	My dear Yudishtar.
1:05.8	You and your brothers have been working too hard.
1:09.3	You have been constantly fighting wars
1:12.2	and hardly had any rest. I think you should take a vacation.
1:17.1	Why don't you make a trip to the beautiful city of Varanavata? I hear that a great festival is underway in Varanavata. Kings and their
1:26.0	representatives from all over the country are attending this festival. Why don't
1:31.0	you and your brothers go to Varana Wata and spend a few days there as representatives of
1:36.8	Hastinapur? You can take your mother Kunti with you. You will get your rest and you will also enjoy the festivities.
1:45.0	Yudishir was surprised to hear of this proposal and he suspected that something
1:50.0	must be wrong.
1:51.0	But he knew that he won't be able to decline the offer either. So he humbly
1:57.6	accepted the proposal and said, Uncle, your wish is our command.
2:02.9	We will soon leave for Varanavata.
2:05.8	Duryo Dona was delighted to hear the news.
2:08.4	He never expected that his plan would get such a great start. He called upon his trusted confidant, Purochana, and instructed him,
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