{"id":163,"date":"2026-06-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/samrudhikadam.in\/MyStories\/?p=163"},"modified":"2026-09-07T14:22:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T14:22:18","slug":"the-return-of-the-pandavas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/samrudhikadam.in\/MyStories\/2026\/06\/18\/the-return-of-the-pandavas\/","title":{"rendered":"THE RETURN OF THE PANDAVAS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the court of Panchala, though King Drupada was cautious about the Pandavas returning to Hastinapur, Krishna supported the proposal and his words carried great influence in the assembly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Pandavas and their mother, Kunti, agreed to return because they wished to preserve unity within the Kuru dynasty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">King Drupada honoured the Pandavas and gave them wealth, ornaments, and royal gifts and then the Pandavas bid farewell and departed towards Hastinapur, along with Kunti, Draupadi, Krishna and Vidura.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When they reached Hastinapur, the citizens of Hastinapur rejoiced and praised Yudhishthira for his righteousness and remembered King Pandu with great affection.<\/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>In the court of Panchala, though King Drupada was cautious about the Pandavas returning to Hastinapur, Krishna supported the proposal and his words carried great influence in the assembly. The Pandavas and their mother, Kunti, agreed to return because they wished to preserve unity within the Kuru dynasty. King Drupada honoured the Pandavas and gave &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/samrudhikadam.in\/MyStories\/2026\/06\/18\/the-return-of-the-pandavas\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;THE RETURN OF THE PANDAVAS&#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-163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/samrudhikadam.in\/MyStories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163","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=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/samrudhikadam.in\/MyStories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":227,"href":"https:\/\/samrudhikadam.in\/MyStories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions\/227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/samrudhikadam.in\/MyStories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samrudhikadam.in\/MyStories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samrudhikadam.in\/MyStories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}