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Death of Bakasur and birth of Ghatotkacha

Episode#19 After escaping from the wax house, the Pandavas wandered from place to place like poor homeless Brahmins without food and shelter, the knew returning to Hastinapur was suicidal and hence they took shelter in the hut of a young Brahmin couple in the nearby village, they would live incognito till they empowered themselves sufficiently to combat the cruel conceited Kauravas. A huge demon named Bakasur who lived nearby the village and harassed the villagers. He had a voracious appetite and would gobble up animals, men, women and children. Finally, the villagers came to a settlement with Bakasur that every fortnight they will provide him food by turns, and the demon will eat the food as well as the Bullock and the delivery person too. The next turn was of the young Brahmin couple! The wife thought that if her husband went to deliver the food, Bakasur would devour him and consequently she and her daughter will be left alone in the world, when she told her story to Kunti, she as