So he spake from his chariot and then went his way, and Yudhishthira turned homeward with tear-dimmed eyes.
Now when Duryodhana had witnessed the triumph of the Pandavas, his heart burned with jealous rage. He envied the splendour of the palaces at Indra-prastha; he envied the glory achieved by Yudhishthira. Well he knew that he could not overcome the Pandavas in open conflict, so he plotted with his brethren to accomplish their fall by artifice and by wrong.
As in after-time the wise Sanjaya said: “The gods first deprive of his reason that man unto whom they ultimately send disgrace and defeat”.
But Duryodhana had to work the will of the Creator under the influence of fate, and it was doomed that the Pandavas should suffer for a time at his hands.
FOOTNOTES:
[246] Pron. indra-prast´ha.
[247] In Ganjam district, Madras.
[248] Pron. pra-bha´sa.
[249] Pron. soo-bhad´ra.
[250] Krishna's father, Vasudeva, was the brother of Pritha, mother of Arjuna.