Aadhya Strength Of Pandavas novel Chapter 33

NO ONE'S POV

THE SWAYUMVAR

In Draupadi's swayumvar many maharathi's had come like the crown prince of Vidarbha, Rukmi, the prince of Hastinapur Duryodhan, with his 99 brothers,  King Karna of Anga,  Shakuni from Gandhar, the King of Cheddi Shishupal, Shindhu Raj Jaydrath and many more kings and princes.

After their entrance, King Drupad said, "I welcome all the present kings and princes. All of you know why you have been invited, it's for the swayumvar of my daughter who is gifted to me by the heavens, a divine born from the fire, who is pure and radiant, only the most competent man can marry her, so I ask all the present kings and princes to come forth and exhibit your competence, my son Drishtridum will now explain the challenge. Drishtridum came and said, "I welcome all the guest who have come for my sister's swayumvar. Such device has set up which cannot be conquered by any ordinary warrior, reveling the bow he continues, -this divine bow can only be lifted by a person who has nothing but confident in his competence,  even a little shadow of doubt in one's heart they will feel the weight of this bow even more then of a mountain.

The string can be only tied by a person who has no desire, anger and greed, one who knows to bear it, to him this art shouldn't be for gaining something but to learn something further" after saying that he takes out his bow and shoots a arrow to the sky reveling the challenge. The challenge was to shoot an arrow on the fish's eye swimming in the sky by looking at it's reflection in the water only by one arrow. 

After seeing the contest Shakuni asked Duryodhan if he could win or not and he replied, "I can't mamashree my archery is not that good, plus I can't insult my self for a women" hearing this Shakuni moved his head saying, "nahi, mere bache it's not about a woman but about politics, think if we win this swayumvar we will have alliance with kampilya as well, we already have the other half with Ashwathama" Duryodhan replied, "even tho mamashree I can't win it and this swayumvar was is kept to insult all of us present here, because if it were meant to keep for a great warrior they would have kept mace fighting or sword fighting, as who will be able to win in this?" hearing this Karna said, "I can win this mitra, if this wasn't a swayumvar I would have participated."  

Hearing this Shakuni smiled and said, "you can still participate in this swayumvar angraj, just participate on behalf of Duryodhan and win it" Karna nodded and said, "then I shall participate in this swayumvar for my mitra Duryodhan."

DRAUPADI'S ENTRY

Draupadi entered making everyone awestruck, she looked very radiant and walked with elegance, her every step made people more mesmerised by her looks and beauty, touching the bow in respect and greeting everyone she sat on her sit and the swayumvar started. 

Many kings and princes tried but couldn't even lift the bow, soon it was Duryodhan's chance, he said, "Pranipat king Drupad to take part in this comeptition, I send my friend Karn to participate instead of me as he has dedicated his competance to me" after he finished Karn came forward to participate when Drishtidyum said, "wait!! Forgive us Ang Raj but we can't give you permission to participate like this, the person who will marry my sister has to show his competence himself" hearing this Karn said, "but this compitition is not fair, one's competence is not limited to his archery skills, my mitra is skilled in mace fighting, if this was a competition of mace fighting no one whould have won against him and he would have surely would be known superior" to which Drishtidum replied, "but we want a person who is best in archery" karn then said, "even so I still have the right to participate instead of him" to which Krishna replied, "like a tree only grows with water and not milk, similarly you can't show his strenght" hearing this Duryodhan got up and said, "okay then my mitra Karn will participate as the king of Ang, then no one shall have any problem right?" Krishna just noded and sat on his chair.

Karn went towards the bow, he was able to successfully pick it up, he took the arrow and looked at the reflection in the water, he amied and missed it! Leaving Duryodhan and others in shock and king Drupad started to get worried, will anyone be able to win this?

PANDAVAS

They were going the opposite direction of Kampilya, a voice asked, "where are you going Bharamans?" turning they all saw a old man sitting by a tree, Yudhisthir answered, "we are in search of bhiksha" the old man replied, "why go somewhere else, when you can get bhiksha in Kampilya?" Arjun replied to this question, "we do not have any interest going there" and Sahadev added, "if you have any bhiksha, it will be great if you can give us some" the old man looked down and said, "I don't have anything, I wanted to go to kampilya for bhiksha, but I'm cripple, I wish I could go there as they are giving away delicious food and gold, I suggest you to go there and carry me with you" hearing this they all looked at ech other with uncertain expressions and the old man continued, "why would you help me? My own son has left me" they all looked sad and decided to help the old man and started their journey to kampilya.