HASTINAPUR
KARN'S POV
Mama shakuni, mitra and dushasaan were happy about their plan getting succeeded as they came to know that arjun and aadhya will leave for varnavat soon and tomorrow others will leave and on the other hand I felt very guilty about this plan as it included mata kunti and aadhya too I can't believe they will go this far, killing pandavas was okay but killing mata kunti and aadhya is not done they are anyways doing a big adharma, I tried to stop them but duryodhan said "that my wishes are more important and he will take sanyas if he can't be a king and" I couldn't say anything more as duryodhan is my mitra and he is not wrong in his place too he just wants what is his but he is just using the wrong way, how I wish I could tell him that there are other ways as well.
Next morning everyone stood out to give a farewell to mata kunti and the pandavas as they were leaving for varnavat, I went towards mata kunti and touched her feet with lots of guilt filled in me and she touching my cheek said "yashasvi bhava, I hope you always follow the path of dharma as it always take you to the right path and always show you right way to do things" saying this she went to her chariot making me feel more guilty about how i'm going to let what's going to happen and I decided to go to my home.
I went towards them and called maa out she turned and smiled coming towards me and asked "putra you!"and I said "I will stay here tonight, I have forgotten the taste of your food you will feed me with your hands na?", maa came towards me and said "putra why do you look so disturbed, tell me what happened putra" and pitashree said "don't ask him anything, let him sit for some while, the fault of raj bhavan is that it feels nice to be there but soon it creates fire, in the heart of adharmi it creates fire for desire and wants and in dharmi heart it creates a fire of guilt and repentance", and mata said "karn if that's the thing then leave all this, leave the raj mahal" and I said "it's not possible mata, I can't leave my mitra duryodhan" pitashree said "that's why I told you that I will keep this house filled with dharam, I knew that there you will have to side adharma all the time, if you live with a snake today or tomorrow he will bite you".
I said "he is not a snake pitashree, even he faced lots of injustice and it's also true that always following the path of dharma is not a way to get what he wants" pitashree replied "if you think he is right then why are you so sad?" and I said "please don't ask me this pitashree I am tied with a promised with mitra duryodhan and when the pillars of a mandir falls down it doesn't make one sad, it's sad when the murti kept in the mandir becomes khandit that's the fire burning inside me, please tell me a way to calm it down pitashree" and pitashree said "daan putra, daan is the only way one's sins washes away and pray that duryodhan's plan never succeeds and that way you and your mitra will be protected from paap".
Without them knowing a person was hearing their conversation and went away knowing he has heard enough and went to tell his boss everything.
VIDUR'S POV
I had sent a spy on angraj karn as I knew something was eating him alive and I had a doubt that it's related to pandu's family and had told my spy about telling me everything he hears.
Soon that spy comes to me and tells me everything he heard making me think why would angraj talk about mandir and it's pillars as duryodhan's only enemy is pandavas then it clicked me why he says that if pillars fall it doesn't make any difference but if the murti is khandit it does, it means duryodhan is planning to kill bhabhishree kunti and putri aadhya with the pandavas too how can they do this sin, I have to send this message to them as soon as possible. I told my spy to take a sack filled with rice and a mouse to them and he asked any message to them and I said yes only one "when we bury a seed it grows as hundred grains of rice" you can go now and leave tomorrow morning.
DRITARASHTR'S POV
I was in the practice room thinking why was there a sudden plan of the pandavas going to varnavat causing to lose my focus on aiming and then duryodhan entered the room so I told all the soldiers to go away and asked him is he really going to do what I think and to my surprise he agreed without hesitation making me feel more guilty and I said "you are even going to kill kunti and aadhya putra don't do that what will I say to my forefathers and pandu when I die and how will I face them" and he said "what difference will it make and anyways aadhya is our enemy as much as the pandu putra’s are! she is actually more annoying than them it would be better off if she is dead with her so called bharata's and kakishree dying won't make any difference what will she do living alone anyways and you better be quite as you were like when I tried to poison bheem in childhood" I tried to convince him once again but he just said "dharma is what you always choose when you have to choose between me or dharma so let me do it my way" saying this he went away making me guilty over what I have done.
VARNAVAT
SAHADEV'S POV
We reached varnavat and climbed down our horses and we were welcomed by purochan, his family and some men working under him and purochan greeted jesth bharata and mata then jesth bharata asked "this place is quite far from the nagar of varnavat purochan" and he replied "oh yes yuvraj, we wanted to make a majestic palace for you guys and we wouldn't find such big place in nagar that's why" and bharata bheem asked "where is the palace underneath the ground?" and purochan said "don't joke around rajkumar it's here in front of us wait I will show you right now" saying this he moved the mirror so it can reflect light and soon due to reflection of light we could see the palace making us awe at the beautiful scene and purochan said "we made this palace in such a way that it lights with the light of moon and there is no need of any diya's or mashal's".
We entered the palace and mata kunti said "we at least need to burn one diya or it will be ashub" hearing that purochan told his wife to bring a diya and she brought a diya and mata lighted the diya and we entered further into the palace. We entered the common room and we were looking around and then purochan said "as I said it only needs moonlight me and my son have used all our wisdom to make this and as you can see no need to light diya's" and jesth said "adbhut! we have never seen anything like this before" and bharata bheem said "you are right jesth and we should reward them something for making this palace so beautifully" and purochan said "you staying in a place created by me is more than enough".
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