{"id":103,"date":"2025-06-25T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/samrudhikadam.in\/MyStories\/?p=103"},"modified":"2026-09-07T14:31:38","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T14:31:38","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 class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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 class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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 class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A Nishadha woman and her five sons had resided with the Pandavas in the Lakshagriha Palace. 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 class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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 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>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":3,"href":"https:\/\/samrudhikadam.in\/MyStories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":250,"href":"https:\/\/samrudhikadam.in\/MyStories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions\/250"}],"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}]}}