Episode#15
One fateful morning, when Madri was taking bath on the bank of river, Pandu watched her stealthily from behind a tree, when she emerged from river covered with single cloth dripping with femininity, Pandu was unable to resist and he grabbed her by force and embraced her tightly, Madri resisted and reminded him of the curse but Pandu was overpowered by his feelings of passion and thus met his death.
Madri, cursed herself and burned on the funeral pyre of her husband as sati was the usual practice then.
Kunti now left alone, returned to Hastinapur along with the five children. Kunti lived at the Hastinapur court, and her five sons, together with the hundred sons of Gandhari were brought up jointly under the guardianship of Bhisma.
At Hastinapur a keen rivalry soon developed between five Pandavas and their hundred cousins the Kaurava, while rival queens of Hastinapur lived together neither being friendly nor explicitly hostile - they had no choice but to play a neutral role.
Bhisma appointed the well reputated Drona as the tutor to teach the Pandavas and Kauravas for various skills like archery, the sage happened to come Hastinapur in order to find shelter at sage Kripa who was brother in-law of Drona and brother of Kripi Drona wife.
When Drona was teaching the skills of archery to the Pandavas and Kauravas, a young boy of lowly tribal caste named Eklavya approached Drona as a student to learn the skills of archery but Drona turned him down declaring that he taught only the Kshatriyas while he belongs to low caste.
But strong willed Eklavya did not accept defeat and watched sage from behind the bushes and learnt all the skills by practicing the same later in the evening what was taught during the day.
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