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- Part 36 -
Dr Mohendra Irengbam *
Seventy-Sixth Chapter
BHIM AND ARJUN CHATTING WHILE GUARDING THE CASTLE HIGH UP IN THE SKY
Long before the yagna was started and as soon as a variety of guests from the three loks began arriving at the palace, Bhim, and Arjun, the two Pandav brothers started their aerial surveillance of the palace, the venue of the yagna. It was their normal duty to fly outside the perimeter walls of the palace, high up in the sky. They were adequately armed as they whisked by in their chariot.
They were there to police the palace and protect the people in it from outside attack. You never knew. They had to assess constantly any potential threats around the palace. Sometimes, their chariot was hovering near to and around the palace walls. While watching the crowd outside the gates of the palace, Bhim noticed an old woman at the south gate, who sat crying, looking desolate. Four young women who looked like leaders stood around her. They were also sobbing.
Those four young women did not seem to Bhim to be ordinary women. They had certain dignity. They were august. Different from other women there, in their looks and deportment. A short distance behind them, there was a man who looked equally venerable. He was also sitting and seemed to be crying. There were a few other men sitting near him. They all looked despondent. By the look of it, they all perhaps, had been refused entry into the palace by the security guards.
Bhim asked his younger brother Arjun, “Brother, do you have any idea who these people are? They look like great devotees of Krishna. They must have come to have a darshan of him.” Arjun replied that he was not sure, and said, “I believe Krishna was born in Madhupur, and was brought up in Braj. It has been known in the three loks that there have been no people who were as dedicated to Krishna as the Brajabashis.”
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