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राज्यलाभपर्वन् (rAjyalAbhaparvan)

 
Mahabharata
English
[Rājyalābhaparvan(ºva)] (“on the Pāṇḍavas' getting half of the kingdom, ” the 15th of the minor parvans of Mhbhr.). (Cf. Rājyalābha, Rājyalambha.) § 244: The Pāṇḍavas with Kuntī and Kṛshṇā journeyed towards Hāstinapura. Dhṛtarāshṭra despatched Vikarṇa, Citrasena, Droṇa, and Kṛpa to receive them. The inhabitants were filled with joy. In order to prevent any difference between them and their cousins, Dhṛtarāshṭra caused them, with Kṛshṇa in the van, to repair to Khāṇḍavaprastha, taking half the kingdom. With Dvaipāyana's assistance they measured out a piece of land for their city, which was very beautiful, and came to be called Indraprastha. Having settled the Pāṇḍavas there, Kṛshṇa came back with Rāma to Dvāravatī (I, 207). --§ 245: When the Pāṇḍavas were dwelling in happiness at Khāṇḍavaprastha, one day the Devarshi Nārada came to them, and recommended them to make an arrangement so that disunion might not arise among them for the sake of their common wife, mentioning how Sunda and Upasunda had killed each other for the sake of Tilottamā. Yudhishṭhira asked who those Asuras were, and who this Tilottamā was (I, 208). --§ 246: Sundopasundopākhyāna (q.v.). The arrangement the Pāṇḍavas made was, that if one of them should be sitting with Draupadī, and one of the other ones should happen to see it, he would have to retire into the forest for twelve years and live as a brahmacārin. Then Nārada went away (I, 212).