Draupadee Laughs at Duryodhan

Everybody had left Indraprasth except Shakuni, Duryodhan, Dushaasan and Karn. Duryodhan was very restless. In fact he was very jealous seeing Yudhishthir's royal treasury. He never expected so much wealth with him. Besides he saw Draupadee's palace also which was far more beautiful and richer than his own palaces and thousands of very beautiful maids were working there.

Shakuni told him that now he would play Chausar (dice game) with Yudhishthir, so he should also come with him. He would lose in this game. This was his last trick which was going to weave the net of future incidents. He sent Duryodhan to see Yudhishthir's royal court. Yudhishthir felt flattered. He made his trip as pleasant as possible.

Now Vyaas Jee came to take leave of him. Yudhishthir honored him, Vyaas Jee blessed him - "By the grace of Bhagavaan you have performed Raajsooya Yagya. You are now the Swaamee of the Earth. I am very happy. Let me go go now." Yudhishthir said - "Rishivar, I want to ask you something. What is the interpretation of the omens occurred after the death of Shishupaal? Wise men say that they are not good for the world." Naarad Jee said, "A great calamity is expected for the world." Vyaas Jee became serious and said - "You are right. This event of killing of Shishupaal is very unfortunate. It means that you will have an unfortunate period of 14 years. And that is not all, all Kshatriya will be destroyed from the face of the Earth. Duryodhan's ill-behavior, Bheem and Arjun's power, anger of Draupadee will be instrumental for this universal destruction. Fate cannot be changed." Yudhishthir got very disappointed hearing all this. Vyaas Jee went away but Yudhishthir got worried thinking that he would be the cause of all this. But he could not understand it as how was it possible? He could not even talk to anybody about this, nor he could think of any means to bypass it or stop it.

At that time Duryodhan was visiting the royal court. He had not seen such a palace like this before. He was very impressed with its beauty and splendor, This was the same court which was built by Maya Daanav and was unique in Tri-Lok. While he was walking, once he thought there was a door there, but when he wanted to go through it, his head hit a wall and he got hurt. And at one place he saw a maid going through the wall as if there was a door there. He was truly amazed to see such court. Once seeing water flowing he lifted his clothes and started crossing it, but there was no water, it was all dry. In the same way once he saw a dry pond, but as he entered it he fell into water and his clothes got wet. Draupadee was seeing this from her palace, she laughed heartily and said - "A blind man's son is always blind."

Duryodhan felt greatly insulted and humiliated by Draupadee's comment. Keeping quiet he just came back from there. Immediately he wanted to leave Indraprasth and came back to Hastinaapur but Shakuni calmed him down and suggested him that he would like to play Chausar before leving Indraprasth. Duryodhan did not understand this but could not say anything to his Maamaa. So after the Raajsooya Yagya Shakuni invited Yudhishthir to pay Chausar, they played it, and as Shakuni had planned Shakuni lost the game and they came back to Hastinaapur.

Now Duryodhan wouldn't go anywhere, wouldn't speak to anyone. He was very angry at all the incidents happened in Indraprasth. He thought that Paandav were favored by Devtaa that is why his all efforts were failing to lowering them. At the same time when Drone saw Arjun he was very pleased with him. He asked his son Ashwatthaamaa to be his friend, but Ashwatthaamaa did not make him friend, rather he preferred to be the friend of Duryodhan. Duryodhan was so much angry at the incidents of Indraprasth that he thought to take revenge of this insult.