किर्मीरवधपर्वन् (kirmIravadhaparvan)
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Mahabharata
EnglishKirmīravadhaparvan(ºva) (“the section relating to the killing of Kirmīra, ” the 31st of the minor parvans of Mhbhr.
cf. Kirmīravadha). § 316: Vidura had heard it from the Pāṇḍavas and now related it to Dhṛtarāshṭra. Departing from Hāstinapura and travelling for three days and nights the Pāṇḍavas reached the Kāmyaka wood. At midnight a man-eating rākshasa, Kirmīra, brother of Baka and friend of Hiḍimba, obstructed their path with a lighted brand, and would avenge himself on Bhīma. Kṛshṇā was afraid. Dhaumya destroyed his illusion by rākshasa-destroying mantras. Arjuna stringed his bow Gāṇḍīva
but Bhīma, making him desist, fought with trees, etc., against Kirmīra, as the brothers Vāli and Sugrīva had done of yore for the sake of the same woman. At last Bhīma seized him with his arms and whirled him about and killed him. Then placing Kṛshṇā in their front they set out for Dvaitavana. Having cleared the forest of its pest they began to live there. “Passing through the forest, I saw the body of the rākshasa, and heard the story from the brahmans” (III, 11).
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