{"id":159,"date":"2026-06-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/samrudhikadam.in\/MyStories\/?p=159"},"modified":"2026-09-07T14:23:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T14:23:08","slug":"the-conflict-within-the-kurus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/samrudhikadam.in\/MyStories\/2026\/06\/12\/the-conflict-within-the-kurus\/","title":{"rendered":"THE CONFLICT WITHIN THE KURUS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now that the Pandavas were alive, Duryodhana became fearful that they would reclaim their throne. Duryodhana, along with Shakuni and Karna, devised many plans against them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He first thought of creating a rift among the Pandavas, but realised that it would not be possible because they were protected by their virtues and strong bond with one another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Duryodhana then proposed bribing King Drupada to turn against the Pandavas, but Karna interrupted and said that King Drupada was not greedy for wealth and would never commit such an act. Duryodhana then began thinking of attacking the Pandavas. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Karna, however, reminded him of the Pandavas\u2019 alliance with Krishna, and said that as long as they had Krishna\u2019s support and remained united, Duryodhana\u2019s schemes were unlikely to succeed. &nbsp;<\/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>Now that the Pandavas were alive, Duryodhana became fearful that they would reclaim their throne. Duryodhana, along with Shakuni and Karna, devised many plans against them. He first thought of creating a rift among the Pandavas, but realised that it would not be possible because they were protected by their virtues and strong bond with &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/samrudhikadam.in\/MyStories\/2026\/06\/12\/the-conflict-within-the-kurus\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;THE CONFLICT WITHIN THE KURUS&#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-159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/samrudhikadam.in\/MyStories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159","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=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/samrudhikadam.in\/MyStories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":229,"href":"https:\/\/samrudhikadam.in\/MyStories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions\/229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/samrudhikadam.in\/MyStories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samrudhikadam.in\/MyStories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samrudhikadam.in\/MyStories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}