{"id":26935,"date":"2021-12-17T02:55:09","date_gmt":"2021-12-17T07:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/?p=26935"},"modified":"2022-03-12T02:23:07","modified_gmt":"2022-03-12T07:23:07","slug":"the-game-continued-maha-bharata-english-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/the-game-continued-maha-bharata-english-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"The Game Continued (Maha-bharata, English Edition)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-26927\" src=\"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/Drona-1-227x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"227\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/Drona-1-227x300.jpg 227w, https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/Drona-1-776x1024.jpg 776w, https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/Drona-1-768x1014.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/Drona-1.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 227px) 100vw, 227px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>\u00a0<\/h2>\n<p>Their departure did not go unnoticed. Duhssasana, seeing them leave in freedom, understood that their father had been afraid and had listened to the advice of Bhishma and the others. He immediately ran to his brother and told him what had happened.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u201cIt is no longer a game,\u201d said Duryodhana, frightened, \u201cthe Pandavas have sworn to kill us all and they will not have peace until they do. It is now better for us to play our cards openly against them or they&#8217;ll have plenty of time to organize themselves. We have to get our father to call them back and play again. I&#8217;m sure we&#8217;ll win again and then we&#8217;ll force them to go into exile. \u201c<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0It was not at all easy to get Dhritarastra to act like that, but he too agreed that the nephews, being free, at that moment were a sure threat, so with his intelligence confused by the plots of the divine will, could not reject the idea.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0And they played again.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Defeated, the Pandavas lost their kingdom and were sentenced to spend twelve years in the forest and one year in disguise. Yudhisthira came out of the Sabha without saying a word.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0The same day, accompanied by their wife, the Pandavas prepared for their departure.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0At that point the Kuravas were again masters of the whole kingdom and of vast riches, but from that day Dhritarastra, frightened by the thought of the Pandava\u2019s revenge, did not have a single moment of peace.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">This is a section of the book \u201cMaha-Bharata, English Edition, Vol. 1\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">To buy the complete book,<\/span><span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kadachaeditions.com\/art\/maha-bharata-as-it-is-vol-1-of-2-english\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">click above<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Their departure did not go unnoticed. Duhssasana, seeing them leave in freedom, understood that their father had been afraid and had listened to the advice of Bhishma and the others. 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