{"id":103,"date":"2025-06-25T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/samrudhikadam.in\/MyStories\/?p=103"},"modified":"2025-06-05T14:18:18","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T14:18:18","slug":"the-great-escape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/samrudhikadam.in\/MyStories\/2025\/06\/25\/the-great-escape\/","title":{"rendered":"THE GREAT ESCAPE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Duryodhana\u2019s plan was to burn the palace in flames and kill the five Pandavas along with their mother in Varanavata.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Vidura had secretly constructed a tunnel with the help of a few trusted workers underneath the palace in order to help the Pandavas, and had warned the Pandavas, who were cautious of their surroundings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>A Nishadha woman and her five sons had resided with the Pandavas in the Lakshagriha Palace.<br>Purochana was assigned the job to burn the palace in flames, but Bhima had set it on fire before he could.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>The Pandavas, along with their mother Kunti, who was carried by Bhima, escaped through the tunnel, while Purochana died being caught in the fire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>But the Nishadha woman and her sons were caught in the fire, and their death was totally unintended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>The residents of Varanavata assumed the bodies of the Nishadha woman and her five sons to be those of the five Pandavas and Kunti.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>This assumption helped the Pandavas and Kunti to live incognito as wanderers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Duryodhana\u2019s plan was to burn the palace in flames and kill the five Pandavas along with their mother in Varanavata. Vidura had secretly constructed a tunnel with the help of a few trusted workers underneath the palace in order to help the Pandavas, and had warned the Pandavas, who were cautious of their surroundings. A &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/samrudhikadam.in\/MyStories\/2025\/06\/25\/the-great-escape\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;THE GREAT ESCAPE&#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-103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/samrudhikadam.in\/MyStories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103","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=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/samrudhikadam.in\/MyStories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105,"href":"https:\/\/samrudhikadam.in\/MyStories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions\/105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/samrudhikadam.in\/MyStories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samrudhikadam.in\/MyStories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samrudhikadam.in\/MyStories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}