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Blame
Janardana replied unto Yudhishthira the just, saying, 'I will go to the court of the Kurus for the sake of both of You. If without sacrificing your interests I can obtain peace, O king, an act of great religious merit will be mine, productive of great fruits. I shall then also save from the meshes of death the Kurus and the Srinjayas inflamed with wrath, the Pandavas and the Dhritarashtras, and, in fact, this entire earth.'
"Yudhishthira said, It is not my wish, O Krishna, that thou wilt go to the Kurus, for Suyodhana will never act according to thy words, even if thou advisest him well. All the Kshatriyas of the world, obedient to Duryodhana's command, are assembled there. I do not like that thou, O Krishna, shouldst proceed into their midst, If any mischief be done to thee, O Madhava, Jett alone happiness; nothing, not even divinity, nor even the sovereignty over all the gods will delight us.'
"The holy one said, 'I know, O monarch, the sinfulness of Dhritarashtra's son, but by going there we will escape the blame of all the kings of the earth. Like other animals before the lion, all the kings of the earth united together are not competent to stand still before me in battle when I am enraged. If, after all, they do me any injury, then I will consume all the Kurus. Even this is my intention. My going thither,
O Partha, will not be fruitless, for if our object be not fulfilled, we shall at least escape all blame.'
Five Village
Villages Requested By Pandavas
- Indraprastha - Delhi
- Panprastha -Panipat
- Sonprastha - Sonipat
- Tilprastha - Tilpat
- Vyagprastha - Baghpat
There are different accounts. The one I read is:
- Varanavarta (lac house),
- Vrikaprastha (bheema poisoned),
- Jayantha (dice game),
- Indraprastha (Khandava forest) and
- any other place as compensations for the wrongs done.
https://www.quora.com/Mahabharata-Hindu-epic-Which-were-five-villages-asked-by-krishna-for-five-pandavas-in-a-meeting-in-hastinapur-with-king-dhritrastra-and-duryodhana-and-how-duryodhan-can-reject-this-offer-while-power-lies-with-king-and-his-ministets
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Five+Village+Pandavas
http://www.slideshare.net/search/slideshow?searchfrom=header&q=Five+Village+Pandavas
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Five+Village+Pandavas
http://www.slideshare.net/search/slideshow?searchfrom=header&q=Five+Village+Pandavas
Wealth
Yudhisthira to Krishna
It is said that wealth is the highest virtue, and everything depends on wealth. They that have wealth are said to live, whereas those that are without wealth are more dead than alive. They that by violence rob a man of his wealth not only kill the robbed but destroy also his virtue, profit and pleasure. Some men when overtaken by poverty choose death; others remove from cities to hamlets others retire into the wood; while others, again, become religious mendicants to destroy their lives. Some for the sake of wealth are driven to madness; others for wealth, live under Subjection to their foes; while many others, again, for the sake of wealth, betake themselves to the servitude of others. A man's poverty is even more distressful to him than death, for wealth is the sole cause or virtue and pleasure.
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