{"id":101,"date":"2025-06-24T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/samrudhikadam.in\/MyStories\/?p=101"},"modified":"2026-09-07T14:31:54","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T14:31:54","slug":"the-palace-of-lac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/samrudhikadam.in\/MyStories\/2025\/06\/24\/the-palace-of-lac\/","title":{"rendered":"THE PALACE OF LAC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Once, Dhritarashtra assigned a few public duties to the Pandavas, and they fulfilled their responsibilities with great devotion, gaining immense popularity among the subjects. Duryodhana, jealous of the Pandavas&#8217; popularity, convinced Dhritarashtra that the Pandavas were a threat to the Kauravas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Later, Duryodhana, along with Shakuni, hatched a plan to kill the Pandavas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Purochana, an architect who supported Duryodhana, built a palace, Lakshagriha, in Varanavata, and the palace was made of highly flammable materials like ghee, oil, lacquer, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dhritarashtra convinced the Pandavas to go to Varanavata along with their mother, Kunti. And Yudhishthira, obeying Dhritarashtra\u2019s order, departed to Varanavata along with his brothers and Mother, Kunti.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Loved this story? Read it in the book!<\/strong><br>This story is a part of my published book, <em>Epic Tales with Samrudhi<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>To get your copy, feel free to mail me at<\/strong> <a href=\"mailto:hello@samrudhikadam.in\"><strong>hello@samrudhikadam.in<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once, Dhritarashtra assigned a few public duties to the Pandavas, and they fulfilled their responsibilities with great devotion, gaining immense popularity among the subjects. Duryodhana, jealous of the Pandavas&#8217; popularity, convinced Dhritarashtra that the Pandavas were a threat to the Kauravas. Later, Duryodhana, along with Shakuni, hatched a plan to kill the Pandavas. Purochana, an &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/samrudhikadam.in\/MyStories\/2025\/06\/24\/the-palace-of-lac\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;THE PALACE OF LAC&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/samrudhikadam.in\/MyStories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/samrudhikadam.in\/MyStories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/samrudhikadam.in\/MyStories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samrudhikadam.in\/MyStories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samrudhikadam.in\/MyStories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/samrudhikadam.in\/MyStories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":253,"href":"https:\/\/samrudhikadam.in\/MyStories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions\/253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/samrudhikadam.in\/MyStories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samrudhikadam.in\/MyStories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samrudhikadam.in\/MyStories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}