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जयद्रथविमोक्षणपर्वन् (jayadrathavimokSaNaparvan)

 
Mahabharata
English
[Jayadrathavimokshaṇaparvan] (“the setting free of Jayadratha, ” the 47th of the minor parvans of Mhbhr.). (Cf. Jayadrathavimokshaṇa.) § 523 (cf. Draupadīhar.): Bhīma seized Jayadratha by the hair, and holding him high up in the air thrust him on the ground, etc., and regretted that Yudhishṭhira had forbidden to kill him. He then with his arrow shaved Jayadratha's head, leaving only five tufts of hair, and made him promise to say in public assemblies, “I am the slave of the Pāṇḍavas.” They then bound him and thrust him into the chariot
then they drove towards the hermitage and presented him to Yudhishṭhira. Yudhishṭhira and Draupadī set him free with his army. § 524: Jayadratha went to Gaṅgādvāra, and pleased Śiva so that he deigned to accept his offerings in person and granted him a boon. Jayadratha asked that he might be able to defeat in battle all the five Pāṇḍavas on their chariots. This Śiva declared to be impossible, as Arjuna (b) was invincible, and was protected by Kṛshṇa, who was Vishṇu (c). Śiva then briefly reminded Jayadratha of four incarnations of Vishṇu (d). “Thou shalt, however, be able to vanquish for a single day only the rest of Yudhishṭhira's forces and the four Pāṇḍavas, but not Arjuna.” Then Śiva vanished with Umā, Jayadratha returned home, and the Pāṇḍavas continued to dwell in Kāmyaka (III, 272).