The bird of good omen calls and the king’s heart is filled with joy. He mounts his horse again, whips it and the horse starts fleeing. As he stands there, on the bank of the lake, searching far with his eyes, he sees yet another city in the distance: Hastinapura. He is unable to rest, though – for in his mind is the queen with the golden hair. Eventually he reaches a lake on the outskirts of a city, decides to rest there for a while and dismounts. The king of Patala searches for the queen with golden hair in the markets of these cities. Vasuki pulls the reins of the horse and wonder where to go now. Vasuki mounts his horse, whips it, a dust-storm rises up as the horse takes off whinnying mightily towards the earth. Vasudi does the sixteen sringaras, and the queens move around him wailing aloud. He tells them not to worry and promises he would just have a look at the woman with golden hear and would be back. They tell him each of them would keep him with her for twelve years in her bed and pleasure him. The Padma Naginis tell him not to get entangled with a woman who does not belong to him, that is a dangerous path, he will be committing a sin. They gather around him and ask him where he is going and he tells them he is going to the earth in search of the woman with golden hair. The queens realize Vasuki is planning to visit the earth. He springs up and going to the seventh chamber in the basement, opens it. He picks up the hair and studies it – it is a woman’s hair. As the strand of hair falls on the chest of the mighty king of Patala, unable to wear its weight Vasuki’s chest begins to quake and he wakes up in a shock. But such is the weight of that hair that the earth is not able to bear it and splits open, giving way, and the hair floats down right into Patala where the king of serpents and the lord of the netherworlds, Vasuki Naga, has been asleep for twelve years and his queens, the Padma Naginis, are fanning him.
The single hair dangling from the royal window is lifted up, carried far and dropped. Storm after storm rush towards Hastinapura. Eventually they decide to hang the hair from the window, perhaps hoping the wind will carry it away.Īnd the wind sees the strand of hair and decides to play a prank. They fear for what would happen when Draupadi awakens and sees what has happened.
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The maids are terrified and look at one another, their eyes full of terror. Her maids gently comb her hair as she sleeps.Īs they do so, a single hair from her golden tresses breaks off and comes lose. This article tries to understand an episode from it, on its own and in relation to Vyasa’s epic.ĭraupadi is having her siesta one beautiful afternoon in Hastinapura. The tribal Bheels have a Mahabharata version of their own, episodes of which are narrated or sung during their festivals, usually accompanied by music and sometimes with dance – a captivating version that never fails to thrill, one of the secrets of its allure being its truly enchanting folktale-like quality.
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