SECTION –CCCIX
(Aranya Parva)
Janamejaya said, "Having felt great
affliction on account of the abduction of their wife and having rescued Krishna
thereafter, what did the Pandavas next do?"
Vaisampayana said, "Having felt great
affliction on account of the abduction of Krishna, king Yudhishthira of
unfading glory, with his brothers, left the woods of Kamyaka and returned to
the delightful and picturesque Dwaitavana abounding in trees and containing
delicious fruits and roots. And the sons of Pandu with their wife Krishna began
to reside there, living frugally on fruits and practising rigid vows. And while
those repressers of foes, the virtuous king Yudhishthira, the son of Kunti, and
Bhimasena, and Arjuna, and those other sons of Pandu born of Madri, were
dwelling in Dwaitavana, practising rigid vows, they underwent, for the sake of
a Brahmana, great trouble, which, however, was destined to bring about their
future happiness. I will tell thee all about the trouble which those foremost
of Kurus underwent while living in those woods, and which in the end brought
about their happiness. Do thou listen to it! Once on a time, as a deer was
butting about, it chanced that the two sticks for making fire and a churning
staff belonging to a Brahmana devoted to ascetic austerities, struck fast into
its antlers. And, thereupon, O king, that powerful deer of exceeding fleetness
with long bounds, speedily went out of the hermitage, taking those articles
away. And, O foremost of Kurus, seeing those articles of his thus carried away,
the Brahmana, anxious on account of his Agnihotra, quickly came before the
Pandavas. And approaching without loss of time Ajatasatru seated in that forest
with his brothers, the Brahmana, in great distress, spake these words, 'As a
deer was butting about, it happened, O king, that my fire-sticks and churning
staff which had been placed against a large tree stuck fast to its antlers.
O king, that powerful deer of exceeding fleetness
hath speedily gone out of the hermitage with long bounds, taking those articles
away. Tracking that powerful deer, O king, by its foot-prints, do ye, ye sons
of Pandu, bring back those articles of mine, so that my Agnihotra may not be
stopped!' Hearing these words of the Brahmana, Yudhishthira became exceedingly
concerned. And the son of Kunti taking up his bow sallied out with his
brothers. And putting on their corselets and equipped with their bows, those
bulls among men, intent upon serving the Brahmana, swiftly sallied out in the
wake of the deer. And descrying the deer at no great distance, those mighty
warriors discharged at it barbed arrows and javelins and darts, but the sons of
Pandu could not pierce it by any means. And as they struggled to pursue and
slay it, that powerful deer became suddenly invisible. And losing sight of the
deer, the noble-minded sons of Pandu, fatigued and disappointed and afflicted
with hunger and thirst, approached a banian tree in that deep forest, and sat
down in its cool shade. And when they had sat down, Nakula stricken with sorrow
and urged by impatience, addressed his eldest brother of the Kuru race, saying,
'In our race, O king, virtue hath never been sacrificed, nor hath there been
loss of wealth from insolence. And being asked, we have never said to any
creature, Nay! Why then in the present case have we met with this
disaster?"
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