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Originally posted by: Surya_krsnbhakt

DID SHakuni have devotees?😲

Originally posted by: Surya_krsnbhakt

OK, keeping that aside,

Did the Pandavas necessarily have to go to a king's place to stay?

I mean, couldn't they have lived in some potter's house like last time?

Originally posted by: -Shruti

According to this folklore, he wanted revenge for his sister. 😆
So why he destroyed Gandhari's own family..she and her husband were the only ones to weep on the 100 corpses. Does this mean he ended up taking revenge from his own 'Beloved' sister?
Huh! This point is able to discard the bloody claim alone.

Originally posted by: Surya_krsnbhakt

OK, keeping that aside,

Did the Pandavas necessarily have to go to a king's place to stay?

I mean, couldn't they have lived in some potter's house like last time?

Originally posted by: ...Diala...

King'a palace would be crowded and they can spread apart to be unidentified.. potters house was safe when no one was searching for them... that is the logic I understand..

Originally posted by: .Vrish.

Anga was today's North Bengal. Champa was a town today in Bihar, near the Bengal border, so contiguous w/ Anga. Malini I dunno. But Anga was a large territory - starting from Dinajpur in Bengal and going north right up to Darjeeling. Magadha was the kingdom on its West.

Karna was very much in Anga when the Pandavas did their Rajasuya yagna: in fact, Bhima invaded his kingdom & subdued him.

But while I understand that in year 12, after the humiliation by the Gandharvas, Karna went on a series of conquests and undid a lot of the Pandava gains. But the bulk of the remaining 11 years, was he always @ Hastinapur? Or was he only there on the occasions that Duryodhan was plotting things against the Pandavas?

Originally posted by: .Vrish.

Maybe he wanted to take revenge against his sister for being so mahaan and mentally torturing him by blindfolding herself & marrying Dhritarashtra.

In this aspect, I agree w/ him. Surya, for this instance @ least, I am Shakuni's devotee 😈

Originally posted by: .Vrish.

Methinks Surya was wondering - why couldn't the Pandavas go back to Ekachakra & hide there? Or go to Hidimbi's place & live there for the 13th year? Ghatotkacha alone could have seen to it that nobody interrupted them.

Also, if Arjun had the capability of going to Indralok, why not pick year 13 to do it? Bhima & the rest could have lived w/ Hidimbi. Bhima could have practiced wrestling & mace fighting w/ Ghatotkacha, and YNS could have quietly practiced their other fighting skills in secret, instead of playing dice, milking cows, et al