Draupadi and aswamedh yagya

When the battle of Mahabharata came to an end, Yudhistra and the
other Pandavas thought, "We have made many people orphans and in
that way we have sinned. We should do something to remove our sins."
So Lord Krishna told them to perform the Ashwamedh Yajna, in which
one horse is set free and the army follows it. The owner of that horse
becomes the owner of all the land over which the horse has traveled;
when that is determined, he can perform a certain type of austerity.
After doing all this, when that austerity was performed, Lord Krishna
told the Pandavas to invite all the Sadhus to a feast, and said, "Your
Yajna will be complete when you hear a big bell in the sky. Till then you
should not think that you have performed your Yajna very well." The
Pandavas didn't hear the bell ringing in the sky, so they came to Lord
Krishna and asked him, "Hey Lord, what is the reason? We have done
everything, but still we do not hear the big bell in the sky. Why?"

So Lord Krishna said, "This is because one Sadhu didn't come; you
should search for Him." They investigated, but they found that every-
body was invited and everybody had eaten the food. They were confus-
ed, and they asked Lord Krishna to find out which Sadhu had not come
there. Using his yogic powers Lord Krishna saw that there was one
Sadhu named Supach who was of a very low caste. He had not been
invited. He was the only perfect Sadhu of that time.

The Pandavas were very proud that they had won the country and
they were great kings so they sent their servants to invite that Supach
Sadhu. But He refused that invitation. Then the Pandavas went to Him
in person inviting him: "Please Sadhu, will you please come to our home
and have the food? Because until you come and eat our Yajna will not be
complete." So Supach replied, "This is my condition: I only eat food at
a place where I can be given the fruit of one hundred and one
Ashvamedh Yajnas." They replied, "You are talking about one hundred
and one Yajnas, but we can't even finish one of them! How can we
give you the fruit of one hundred and one?" They went back to their
home disappointed.

Again they begged Lord Krishna to find some solution, but he replied,
"I cannot help you in any way." So Draupadi, who was the wife of all
the Pandavas, was very clever and she thought of something. So the next
morning, she bathed and after becoming very clean she walked there to
invite the Sadhu herself. But the Sadhu replied, "You know my condition:
until I get the fruit of one hundred and one Yajnas I will not come
to eat your food." But Draupadi was very clever and she replied,
"Hey Sadhu, I have heard this from another perfect Mahatma: that if
you go to have the darshan of any perfect Saint, you get the fruit of a
hundred Ashvamedh Yajnas for each of your steps. And I have walked
more than a hundred steps to get here; so you can take the fruit of one
step, and please come to have food." This was a very clever answer and
Supach came to eat that food.

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