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Excerpt from Selections From the Mahábhárata
Hindus. Subsequently to the transactions there described, the practices of the sons of Duarraaisurna against the lives of the Pandavas become still more malevolent; and they privily set tire to the house in which Parrtui and her sons reside. As the Pandavas had been warned of the intention of their enemies, they eluded it, and escaped by a subterranean passage, leaving it to be reported and believed that they had perished in the mates of their dwelling. They secrete themselves in the forests, and adopt the garb and mode of life of Brahmans. It is during this period that they hear of the Swayambara,' a rite familiar to the readers of nala, the choice of a husband by a princess from the midst of congregated suitors; of Daaurani, daughter of Duumna, King of the upper part of the Dofib; and they repair to his court, and win the lady. The circum stances of this exploit, and its immediate consequences, form the subject of the fourth of the following Selections.
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