Accordingly, he declared Yudhishthira his heir and crown prince, which enraged Duryodhana. Duryodhana unofficially adopted Karna as his brother and began to plot the destruction of the Pandavas whom he felt had returned only to prevent him from succeeding his father as rightful king of the realm.
He suggested to his father that Kunti and her five sons should go, stay in a place prepared for them, and enjoy themselves; Dhritarashtra agreed and the family was sent.
Meanwhile, Duryodhana had a house created of all flammable materials for them to stay in which would go up in flames quickly once lit and consume anyone and anything inside. The Pandavas hosted a grand party and invited all the people of the village to their home, where everyone ate and drank heavily deep into the night.
Among the guests were a woman from the wilderness and her five sons who burned to death in the house when the fire was set while the Pandavas and their mother escaped through the tunnel into the forest.
The next morning, the burned bodies in the house were presumed to be those of Kunti and her sons and Duryodhana believed his plan had succeeded. The Pandavas, meanwhile, began a life disguised as a brahmin family who had become poor and moved from village to village. The brothers would go out during the day and beg for alms which they would bring back to Kunti who would divide the food between them all.
One day, they learned of a festival taking place in the kingdom of Panchala to award the hand of the princess Draupadi in marriage and decided to attend. Many suitors arrived to compete in the archery contest to win Draupadi. A pole was erected in a pool of water with a handmade fish-target revolving at the top. Each suitor was to raise and string a heavy bow and shoot an arrow into the eye of the fish but had to do so by looking down at its reflection in the pool.
The suitors all failed one by one, but Arjuna was able to win easily as he was the greatest archer in the land. Draupadi was given to Arjuna who took her back to their home and, as they arrived in their yard, they called out to their mother to come see what they had brought.
Kunti, who was inside the house meditating, thought they had brought alms and, without getting up to look, told them to share whatever it was equally among themselves. The brothers had always done exactly what their mother told them to and so Draupadi became the wife of all five brothers who agreed each would have her exclusively for a year before she was passed to the next.
Dhritarashtra divided his kingdom in half and gave a part to the Pandavas who quickly turned it into a lush paradise through their various exceptional skills. His devotion to their welfare and commitment to honoring his word created a conflict, however, which would result in his self-exile.
Among the stipulations agreed upon by the brothers for sharing Draupadi was that none of them would disturb or intrude upon the one who was alone in a room with her; if they did, they would have to endure exile for a year. He did not hesitate to retrieve his bow and save the cattle and then departed the kingdom, even though Yudhishthira, Draupadi, and all the others begged him to stay. During exile, Arjuna would marry other women, have children, and engage in various adventures such as the burning of the Khandava Woods.
Arjuna and Krishna, who accompanies him, come across the god of fire, Agni, who needs to burn the forest and nearby village in order to fulfill his duty. He has been prevented in this by Indra who sends a rainstorm to put the fire out each time Agni ignites it.
Arjuna agrees to help, and Agni calls on the great sky god Varuna for help who gives Arjuna the mighty, unbreakable bow known as Gandiva as well as a magical chariot with horses that never tire and cannot be wounded. Arjuna saves a man from the fire, Maya, who was an exceptional architect and, when his exile is over, brings him back to the kingdom of the Pandavas where Maya designs and builds a great palace for the brothers.
The floors shine so brightly and are so smooth that they appear to be water. When Duryodhana comes to see it, he steps into the reception hall and believes it to be a pool and so draws up his pants and tiptoes across it.
Draupadi, looking on, laughs at him, and Duryodhana, realizing his mistake, lets his pants down but then falls into an actual pool in the center of the hall, eliciting more laughter from Draupadi. Shamed in front of the court, Duryodhana swears revenge and invites the Pandavas to his palace for a night of gambling, which he knows Yudhishthira enjoys but is not very skilled in.
Life is full of choices. We often act as Duryodhana and choose the path of power and wealth, compromising on our honesty and justice. This is the reason why Arjuna won the battle even after having a smaller army. Kicking off a 'mini-green revolution', Adani Electricity Mumbai Ltd. AEML and Chartered Bikes have joined hands to deploy electric bikes to provide last-mile delivery solutions to people in a Mumbai suburb, officials said here on Friday.
Chartered Bikes Director Sanyam Gandhi said that the AEML is providing the space and green power supply that can help delivery partners save between Rs daily with an all-electric fleet of two-wheelers. He said that this win-win situation for all stakeholders can be replicated in all Indian Smart Cities sustainably.
The e-bikes are based at the Hiranandani Gardens, Powai and made available for the delivery partners who can operate it even without a driving license. The vehicles run at a maximum speed of kmph.
A social media expert, who recently launched a blockchain technology powered, decentralised social networking platform - Freebits. Speaking at an international seminar here on Friday, Shiva Kintali, an alumnus of IIT Kharagpur, said social media platforms controlled by technology companies are becoming spaces of censorship and control. Journalists, politicians, global leaders, creators, and even satire accounts are getting de-platformed. A couple of technology companies are controlling global social media communications and censoring, shadow banning, and de-platforming opinions without any transparency," said Kintali.
He said that democracy is impossible without freedom of speech, cross-pollination of ideas, and a common understanding of what is true and what is false. Before launching his own business, Kintali, who was a faculty member in the Computer Science department at Princeton University, said "Freebits is a new social networking platform built on blockchain technologies and is a radically new kind of social media, which has built-in support for decentralised identity, Metaverse integration, AI-powered news aggregation, tamper proof photos, videos, credentials, and many more," added Kintali, who before launching his own business, was a faculty member in the Computer Science department, Princeton University.
Manju Rose Mathews, the head of media studies and organiser of the conference, said the social media in the pandemic and post-pandemic age has diverse issues to be studied by researchers. Astronomers have discovered a small black hole outside the Milky Way by looking at how it influences the motion of a star in its close vicinity.
The newly found black hole was spotted lurking in NGC , a cluster of thousands of stars roughly , light years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud -- a neighbour galaxy of the Milky Way.
The detection in NGC marks the first time a black hole has been found in a young cluster of stars the cluster is only around million years old, a blink of an eye on astronomical scales. Astronomers started on the trail of this black hole due to its gravitational influence on the five-solar-mass star orbiting it.
Previously such small, "stellar-mass" black holes have been spotted in other galaxies by picking up the X-ray glow emitted as they swallow matter, or from the gravitational waves generated as black holes collide with one another or with neutron stars. However, most stellar-mass black holes don't give away their presence through X-rays or gravitational waves. This is the first time this detection method has been used to reveal the presence of a black hole outside of our galaxy.
The method could be key to unveiling hidden black holes in the Milky Way and nearby galaxies, and to help shed light on how these mysterious objects form and evolve, the team said.
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