The Pandavas had sat down to eat w/ Panchali, when Durvasa arrived. Hearing him, the Pandavas went out to greet him.
D: I am hungry & my men want to eat.
Y: We shall make arrangements. Bhima, lay out the palm leaves. Sahadev, prepare the seats. Nakul, get the water for everyone. I'll go in and help Panchali get the food.
The 3 Pandavas start working, and Yudisthir tells Panchali what Durvasa has asked.
P: Arya, this timing is bad. We've just run out of groceries. In fact, today, I was gonna ask Arya Vrikodar & Arya Nakul to go shopping. After lunch, I was gonna prepare a list.
Y: Now is no time to do that. We have hungry Brahmins outside. We should have been prepared.
P: How, Arya? You & I were busy massaging the feet of other rishis. Arya Bhima, Arjun, Nakul & Sahadev were all out in tapasya. I once caught Duryodhan's spies, but they refused my offer to feed them. Or else...
Y: Or else, what Panchali?
P: Or else, had they accepted our hospitality, I'd have given them the list and sent them shopping for what we need. But what will we do now?
Suddenly, @ the window, Krishna appears. He throws a tulip @ Draupadi, but she bends to see if there's any daal in one of the pots. As a result, the tulip misses her, & hits Yudisthir. He turns, sees Krishna & smiles.
Panchali looks up & is excited to see Krishna as well.
P: Govind, thank you that you have come 😆
K: I smell food. Oh, yall were about to eat? Why did you get up w/o finishing what you had?
Yudisthir quickly explains to him their predicament. Krishna looks @ one of the pots, and sees that there is a grain of rice in it. He has the rice & burps. So do all the rishis, including Durvasa. He then notices some cream that is obviously stale. Panchali tries to stop him from having it, since it's gone bad. But Krishna has it, and instantly, in 5 minutes, all the rishis, including Durvasa, flee that place, looking for the nearest porter potty.
Krishna then meets the rest of the Pandavas, and tells Bhima that the credit for this achievement goes to Vayu, for entering their stomach. Bhima laughs.
K: Sakhi, is there anything else you need?
P: Yeah, I have a shopping list. Can you take Arya Bhima & Nakul w/ you, and drop them back here w/ these items? Since we are empty, we need to do some bulk shopping, and so your chariot will come in handy.
K: Avashya, Sakhi!!!
P: First, let's finish all the food. It's a sin to waste.
So the Pandavas went ahead & finished eating. Krishna emptied the remainder of the rice pot.
After that, Krishna, Bhima & Nakul go shopping. On the way, they spot Duryodhan's spies, and Nakul, who has been bored @ being left out of all the action, captures them and forces them to join them for shopping. In the end, Krishna's chariot is filled w/ the year's supplies - rice, daal, ghee, carrots, cabbages, onions, eggplants, bell peppers, pineapples, mangos, strawberries, pomegranates, and what have you. It was completely filled, and there was barely any space for KBN.
However, Bhima had an idea. He forced Duryodhan's spies to pull out all their comrades, and forced them to carry some of the groceries w/ them, so that KBN could comfortably ride on the chariot. Nakul raised the question of what if they run away w/ the groceries? So Krishna released his divine lotus, which placed itself behind them. He told them that if they tried tossing the groceries & returning to Hastinapur w/o helping them get it back to the cottage, then they'd get a bad stench which would follow them wherever they went @ not leave them. The spies tried to escape leaving the pots, and the lotus bestowed them w/ a bad case of BO that could be smelt all the way to Hastinapur. Finally, they gave up, picked up the groceries & followed the filled chariot.
Once in the cottage, the Pandavas didn't have to do any work. The spies made sure that everything went in its proper place, got labelled, and everything. They even installed the cooking gas, and laid a gas pipeline from Indraprastha to that cottage. Bhima promised them that the favor that they did would remain a secret, and Shakuni wouldn't know about it. Draupadi gave them the message to give Duryodhan, and the spies returned to Hastinapur. Krishna too left & returned to Dwarka.
Now that all of Panchali's domestic work was done, the Pandavas decided to make her useful. Nakul showed her some sword fencing tricks that she could do, so that the next time, Dushashan couldn't disarm her. Sahadev showed her how to use the ax, including a technique that would lob off Dushashan's head. Bhima told him not to push it, since Dushashan was his. Yudisthir showed Panchali how to use the bhala.
Final problem came w/ Bhima. Draupadi wanted to learn the gada as well, but Bhima had broken his. He promised her that he'd teach her the gada after the agyatwas, but b4 the war.
Panchali was happy.
Edited by .Vrish. - 11 years ago
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