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काम्यकवनप्रवेश (kAmyakavanapraveza)

 
Mahabharata
English
[Kāmyakavanapraveśa(ḥ)] (“proceeding to the Kāmyaka-wood, ” cf. Arjunābhigamanap.). § 328: As Yudhishṭhira declared that Bhūriśravas, Śala, Jalasandha, etc., and Karṇa (master of all weapons, etc.), and the Dhārtarāshṭras, together with the kings who had been injured by the Pāṇḍavas, could not now be vanquished, that all the Kaurava soldiers and their families had been honoured with wealth and luxuries by Duryodhana, and would sacrifice their lives for him, and that, although Bhīshma, Droṇa, and Kṛpa, all knowing celestial weapons and being invincible, behaved equally towards both parties, they would certainly, to pay off the royal favours they enjoyed, lay down their very lives in battle, Bhīma remained silent.--§ 329: While they were conversing thus Vyāsa appeared, and, taking Yudhishṭhira into a corner, taught him, after he had purified himself (śuddhaye), the science of Pratismṛti, by means of which Arjuna () should proceed to Mahendra, Rudra, Varuṇa, Kubera, and Yama, to receive weapons from them. He also advised him to go to some other forest in order not to cause uneasiness to the ascetics and exterminate the deer and destroy the plants. Then Vyāsa disappeared. The Pāṇḍavas went to the forest of Kāmyaka on the banks of the Sarasvatī, followed by numerous brahmans versed in śikshā and akshara (see § 322), and lived there devoted to the Dhanurveda, and sacrificing to the Pitṛs, the gods, and the brahmans (III, 36).