Destined (Mahabharat)

Chapter 26:

Let me fall, if I must fall.
The one I become will catch me.

-oxherd boy

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Indraprastha diversify itself day by day and the people were also happy.

In the inner palace also , after a year of wear and tear the queen and princess maintain the stability of it.

As for these days , one day Rishi Narada visited Indraprastha.

The Great sage suprises everyone and greet the pandavas.

Yudhishthira and the rest of  pandava brothers also stand up and greet the sage.

"Please bless us O great sage. Take this seat." Yudhishthira plead giving his own high seat to the sage to show sincerity.

The sage sits on it and smile at the brothers. And after the celestial Rishi had been seated, the wise Yudhishthira duly offered him the Arghya with his own hands. 

He sent the servants to inform each Rishi in Indraprastha that the celestial Rishi Narada bless in this small city.

He also sent message to draupadi and shreya, who were in the inner chamber.

After some time later , both purifying themselves , come where the great sage was. Both worship the lord feet , stood in front of him joining hands and properly veiled.  The sage , pronouncing various benedictions on them, commanded the princesses to retire.

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After the princesses retire , the great sage look at Yudhishthira and said,

'The renowned princess of Pancala is the wedded wife of you all.
Establish a rule amongst yourselves so that disunion may not arise amongst you. There were, in former days, celebrated throughout the three worlds, two brothers named Sunda and Upasunda living together and incapable of being slain by anybody unless each slew the other. They ruled the same kingdom, lived in the same house, slept on the same bed, sat on the same seat, and ate from the same dish. And yet they killed each for the sake of Tilottama.
Therefore, O Yudhishthira, preserve your friendship for one another and do that which may not produce disunion amongst you.'

On hearing this, Yudhishthira asked,

'O great Muni, whose sons were Asuras called Sunda and Upasunda? Whence arose that dissension amongst them, and why did they slay each other? Whose daughter also was this Tilottama for whose love the maddened brothers killed each other? Was she an Apsara (water nymph) or the daughter of any celestial? O you whose wealth is asceticism, we desire, O Brahmana, to hear in detail everything as it happened. Indeed, our curiosity has become great.'

Hearing these words of Yudhishthira, Narada replied,

'O son of Pritha, listen with your brothers to me as I recite this old story, O Yudhishthira, exactly as everything happened.

In olden days, a mighty Daitya named Nikumbha, endued with great energy and strength was born in the race of the great Asura, Hiranyakasipu. Unto this Nikumbha, were born two sons called Sunda and Upasunda