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(Jatugriha Parva Continued)
"Vaisampayana said, 'About this time, the
learned Vidura had sent into those woods a man of pure character and much
trusted by him. This person going to where he had been directed, saw the
Pandavas with their mother in the forest employed in a certain place in
measuring the depth of a river. The design that the wicked Duryodhana had formed
had been, through his spies, known to Vidura of great intelligence, and,
therefore, he had sent that prudent person unto the Pandavas. Sent by Vidura
unto them, he showed the Pandavas on the sacred banks of the Ganga a boat with
engines and flags, constructed by trusted artificers and capable of
withstanding wind and wave and endued with the speed of the tempest or of
thought. He then addressed the Pandavas in these words to show that he had
really been sent by Vidura, 'O Yudhishthira, he said, "listen to these
words the learned Vidura had said (unto thee) as a proof of the fact that I
come from him. Neither the consumer of straw and the wood nor the drier of dew
ever burneth the inmates of a hole in the forest. He escapeth from death who
protecteth himself knowing this, etc.' By these credentials know me to be the
person who has been truly sent by Vidura and to be also his trusted agent.
Vidura, conversant with everything, hath again said, 'O son of Kunti, thou
shalt surely defeat in battle Karna, and Duryodhana with his brothers, and
Sakuni.' This boat is ready on the waters, and it will glide pleasantly
thereon, and shall certainly bear you all from these regions!'
"Then beholding those foremost of men with
their mother pensive and sad he caused them to go into the boat that was on the
Ganga, and accompanied them himself. Addressing them again, he said, 'Vidura
having smelt your heads and embraced you (mentally), hath said again that in
commencing your auspicious journey and going alone you should never be
careless.'
"Saying these words unto those heroic
princes, the person sent by Vidura took those bulls among men over to the other
side of the Ganga in his boat. And having taken them over the water and seen
them all safe on the opposite bank, he uttered the word 'Jaya' (victory) to
their success and then left them and returned to the place whence he had come.
"The illustrious Pandavas also sending
through that person some message to Vidura, began, after having crossed the
Ganga, to proceed with haste and in great secrecy.'"
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