Anjana, the stuff in bold is really funny. I'll pick up from there
Originally posted by: AnjanaYYZ
Why Nakula missed Bheem
Nakula was very sad. Bhrata Bhim and Arjuna had gone off to do tapasya. He missed Bhrata Bhim the most. It wasn't just the jokes and loud laughs that he missed. Bhrata Bhim had sheltered him and Sahdev from Panchali. Without him around to fulfill her every whim, Panchali had him and Sahdev run all her and Jesth's errands instead. She always needed something - fruits for upvaas, firewood for cooking, hay for her kutir, water for her bath, flowers for her pooja, etc. He and Sahdev had never worked so hard. Not even in Gurukul.😭
Then there was the food. Panchali's cooking skills were horrendous. Bhrata Bhim had always secretly handled the kitchen both in Indraprast and during their first few months of vanvaas too. It was only after he had left that Jesht, Sahdev, and he had learnt that their beloved Panchali barely knew the difference between salt and sugar. After she had burnt yet another stag to crisp, Jhest had slyly declared that he would not eat meat again till Bhim and Arjun returned. He and Sahdev had not spoken up fast enough and now had to daily suffer Panchali's latest cooking misadventure. Everyday was a new disaster...sometimes too much salt, other times no salt, burnt rotis and even raw meat. More often then not the only edible item was rice. But, to be fair credit for that went to Rishi Durvasa.
He had come to visit the Pandav a few months after Bhrata Bhim had left. Terrified he would curse them after trying Panchali's salty kheer, the brothers had sent her of to a neighboring ashram for yoga and served the MahaRishi fruit salad. Pleased with their salad service Rishi Durvasa gifted Yuddhistir, Nakula, and Sahdev a rice cooker. So, the three now at least had perfect rice as they waited for Bhrata Bhim's return.
Rishi Durvasa gave her the rice cooker, while Surya-dev gave her the akshay patra. Both were relieved: the last time they chose to give a princess something, it resulted in a fiasco, with that gift - named Karna - turning to boomerang on the recipient.
So Suryadev decided to cap what Draupadi could do this time. He told her that once she was done eating, it would assume that its work for the day was over. Similarly, Durvasa told her that the rice cooker too would only work w/ rice: trying to make even plow, biryani or anything else was out of the question.
Nakul was disappointed by these restrictions, since he wanted Draupadi to try cooking the stag that he had last hunted down in this cooker. Unfortunately, no such luck.
Nakul & Sahadev then decided to go and do tapasya of their own - tapasya for Bhima & Arjun to return.
Shiv Shakti
Ye Hai Mohabbatein
