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समयपालनपर्वन् (samayapAlanaparvan)

 
Mahabharata
English
Samayapālanaparvan (“the section about the keeping of the agreement”). § 550: Asked by Janamejaya, Vaiśampāyana related: By the grace of Tṛnabindu and Dharma, the Pāṇḍavas continued to live unrecognized in the city of Virāṭa. Yudhishṭhira distributed the wealth he won from Virāṭa among his brothers. In the fourth month the great festival in honour of Brahmán, which was celebrated with pomp in the country of the Matsyas, came about
urged by Virāṭa, Bhīmasena there killed the athlete Jīmūta and numerous other athletes
the king also made him fight with tigers, lions, and elephants. So also Arjuna, Nakula, and Sahadeva pleased the king in their respective occupations (IV, 13).