Paandu Bags Shaap

After some time Satyavatee asked Bheeshm to tell Dhritraashtra to call Paandu back from the forest. When Bheeshm said this to Dhritraashtra, he asked - "Whether it is a message or the order?" Bheeshm said - "Message of elders is also an order." Dhritraashtra had to obey it.

Dhritraashtra came to Shakuni, he was playing dice game at that time. Dhritraashtra asked - "Whom you are playing with, Shakuni?" Shakuni replied - "Between my soul and ambition." Dhritraashtra asked - "Whom do you want the winner?" Shakuni said - "Shakuni plays only for winning." Dhritraashtra said - "But here the soul is also yours and the ambition is also yours." Shakuni said - "No Mahaaraaj, Soul is not hundred percent mine, it is of Vidhaataa (Bhagvaan) also, yes, ambition is surely hundred percent mine whether it is fulfilled or not. Therefore I will favor my ambition only."

Shakuni asked - "But how did you come here?" Dhritraashtra said - "Maataa Satyvatee wants to call Paandu back from the forest. My head will again be without crown." Shakuni said angrily - "Whatever I will have to do, but my sister will definitely rule." Dhritraashtra said - "When Bheeshm was helpless in front of Vidur's ethics, then what are you?" Shakuni said - "Jeejaa Jee, Don't compare me with Bheeshm. So if Maataa Satyavatee has asked you to call Paandu back then call him back, but never leave trust on Shakuni who has many unfailing arrows in his quiver."

Paandu was enjoying in forest that one day, Paandu went for hunting. He saw two deer playing with each other happily together. Paandu knew shooting Shabd-Vedhee Vaan also, so as those two deer disappeared from his eyes and he heard their cries of joy, he shot a Shabd-Vedhee Vaan and by chance both died. When he went to take his game he found that there were Kindam Rishi and his wife together. Paandu repented a lot but Kindam  Rishi gave him Shaap before dying "You will die only when you will be with your wife." 

In fact what happened that Kindam Rishi didn't have a child and was trying to have one, so he wanted to love his wife without any restraint. Since only animals are able to love without any thought of the openness of it, the Rishi and his wife changed themselves to a couple of deer. Thus they were always together.

With a heavy heart Paandu came back and told this to his queens. He had got a black spot of Rishi's killing on his head, so he had to do some kind of Praayshchit. He had decided to live a different life. "I will not be happy in pleasures, nor I will be sad in sorrows. I will not love my life, nor I will hate it. I will do severe Tap not by sitting under a tree but by renouncing all the worldly things mentally."