{"id":157,"date":"2026-06-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/samrudhikadam.in\/MyStories\/?p=157"},"modified":"2026-09-07T14:23:33","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T14:23:33","slug":"the-kauravas-fear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/samrudhikadam.in\/MyStories\/2026\/06\/09\/the-kauravas-fear\/","title":{"rendered":"THE KAURAVAS&#8217; FEAR"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After the marriage, news spread across Aryavarta that the Pandavas were alive and had married the princess of Panchala, Draupadi, and their marriage astonished many kingdoms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Soon, the news reached Hastinapura and and the Kuru court learned that the Pandavas were alive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Vidura learnt that Draupadi had married the Pandavas and that the pride of the Kauravas had been humbled, and he was filled with joy. He exclaimed to Dhritarashtra that the Kurus were flourishing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dhritarashtra assumed that Duryodhana had won Draupadi, and he became pleased and ordered many jewels and ornaments to be brought for her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But Vidura clarified that the Pandavas were alive, had married Draupadi and had formed a powerful alliance with King Drupada.<\/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>After the marriage, news spread across Aryavarta that the Pandavas were alive and had married the princess of Panchala, Draupadi, and their marriage astonished many kingdoms. Soon, the news reached Hastinapura and and the Kuru court learned that the Pandavas were alive. Vidura learnt that Draupadi had married the Pandavas and that the pride of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/samrudhikadam.in\/MyStories\/2026\/06\/09\/the-kauravas-fear\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;THE KAURAVAS&#8217; FEAR&#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-157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/samrudhikadam.in\/MyStories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157","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=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/samrudhikadam.in\/MyStories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230,"href":"https:\/\/samrudhikadam.in\/MyStories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions\/230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/samrudhikadam.in\/MyStories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samrudhikadam.in\/MyStories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samrudhikadam.in\/MyStories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}