Mahaabhaarat
Bheem (3)
1. Bheem's Childhood, and Young Bheem Before Exile After Paandav had lost their another game, they had to go to 12 years of Vanvaas and one year of Agyaatvaas (living in the society in such a way that people cannot recognize them). Bheem and Keechak Twelve years of exile passed away almost uneventful for Bheem. In their 13th year, for their Agyaatvaas, they arrived at Viraat Nagar. All Paandav and Drauadee served there at different places. Draupadee used to work with Raanee Sudeshnaa and Bheem used to work in royal kitchen. Raajaa Viraat had a daughter, named Uttaraa who learned music and dance from Arjun who was working as Brihannalaa there. Later she was married to Abhimanyu. They had a son named Pareekshit. Keechak was Sudeshnaa's brother and was the ruler of Viraat Nagar. Raajaa Viraat couldn't do anything without his will. He was very mighty that is everybody was scared of him. It was known that Keechak could be killed by only six people - Bheeshm, Drone, Karn, Balraam, Duryodhan and Bheem. Once he came to Viraat Nagar and saw Draupadee in Sudeshnaa's chambers. He asked Sudeshnaa to send her to his chambers. Draupadee had already told Sudeshnaa in the beginning that five Gandharv husbands always guarded her. Sudeshnaa remembered this so first she refused to send her to Keechak, but Keechak didn't listen to her. So next day she had to send Draupadee to Keechak. Keechak misbehaved with her so she ran away from there and came to the court but nobody listened to her here also. Here also Yudhishthir etc saw her insulted but could not do anything. But this time Draupadee was not going to be silent. She met Bheem secretly and planned for Keechak's killing. According to plan she met Keechak in a lonely place and invited him in the music hall to meet him in the late evening. Bheem went there and lay down there covering himself with a sheet. Then came Keechak calling Draupadee. Draupadee was standing nearby and was replying him continuously. It was all dark. As Keechak removed the sheet from Bheem's head, Bheem jumped over him and after a brief fight killed him. Since Keechak was very mighty, it was a surprise to everybody that he was killed by somebody. Who was such a mighty person? Sudeshnaa was very sad on his death. She asked Draupadee about it, Draupadee said - "I told you about my five mighty Gandharv husbands. One of them might have killed him. Nobody listened to me. I even went to Raajaa to ask for justice, he also didn't do anything. I told you also, but you forced me to go to him." Bheem, Dushaasan and Duryodhan Now remain Bheem's two vows which he took at the time of first dice game. Towards the end of the war, Bheem did fight with Dushaasan and killed him. He brought the blood of Dushaasan's chest for Draupadee. On that day Draupadee washed her hair with that blood and tied her loose hair left for more than 13 years. Now remained breaking of Duryodhan's thigh. Duryodhan knew that Bheem will certainly fulfill his vow. And although his mother had made him of steel by her Tapasyaa but because of his foolishness, his same part of body was still weak on which Bheem was supposed to hit. So after everybody was killed, only three people remained - Ashwatthaamaa (he was immortal), Kripaachaarya and Duryodhan. Now Duryodhan got scared and hid in a pond. And Bheem also wanted to fulfill his last vow, so he also came there searching for him and challenged him to come out and fight with him. Krishn and other Paandav were also there. After some time Duryodhan came out of the pond. Yudhishthir was very lenient, he gave him a choice to choose any one among the five Paandav and have a fight with him. If he will defeat him, Yudhishthir will lose his own kingdom and the whole kingdom will be of his. Duryodhan chose Bheem and fight started between them. Both were good at Gadaa, both were mighty, both were enthusiastic to kill each other. At last Bheem broke his thigh, left him there to die a slow death and all went away from there.
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Created
by Sushma Gupta
On 05/27/04
Contact: mahaabhaarat@yahoo.com
Modified on 10/22/04