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Information about Rajasuya Yagna and meaning is as given below:
Rajasuya Yagna meaning : Raja +Suya + Yagna = King + Sacrificed performed by + Sacrifice. A King performs a divine sacrifice. Rajasuya (राजसुय) (Rājasūya) is a ceremony marking the consecration of a King.
According to the Hindu Texts, Rajasuya Yagna refers to a great sacrifice performed by a Chakravarti (Emperor – King of the earth/world).
In this Yajna, during the coronation of the emperor, even the tributary Princes could participate as a mark of the Chakravarti’s undisputed sovereignty.
Information about how Rajasuya Yagna was performed by Pandavas is as given below:
Lord (Sage) Sri Vedavyasa (he is an avatar of Lord Sri Vishnu, just like Lord Sri Krishna) arrived and instructed Yudhishthira to make all preparations for the Great Rajasuya Yagna.
Lord (Sage) Sri Vedavyasa instructed Bhimasena (Bhima) to undertake digvijaya yatra (going forth to conquer the whole world).
The benefit of the sacrifice goes to that person who plays the principal role. Bhima was eligible for the benefit of Rajasuya Yagna, that is, the position of Lord Sri Brahma Deva.
[Please remember that Bhimasena (Bhima) is avatar of Lord Sri Vayu Deva / Lord Sri Mukhya Prana Deva.]
[Next Lord Sri Brahma is this same Lord Sri Vayu Deva / Lord Sri Mukhya Prana Deva. Both Sri Hanuman and Sri Bhima are the avatar of Lord Sri Mukhya Prana Deva / Lord Sri Vayu Deva).
Therefore, Lord (Sage) Sri Vedavyasa asked Bhima to play the principal role by undertaking digvijaya yatra (going forth to conquer the whole world).
Arjuna pleaded that he has the chariot, bow etc. necessary requirements for digvijaya yatra and he is also interested in digvijaya yatra.
However, Lord (Sage) Sri Vedavyasa said Kichaka, Karna etc. will give tributes to Bhima without much grumbling, therefore, he should lead digvijaya yatra.
Lord (Sage) Sri Vedavyasa directed Arjuna to go to Saptadvipa, Patala etc. regions and bring tributes.
Bhima went to Virata kingdom and collected tributes from Kichaka. Then, Bhima went to Chedi kingdom and collected tributes from Shishupala.
Kunti’s sister Srutasrava was the mother of Sishupala. She advised him to pay the tributes to Bhima.
Bhima collected the tributes from Paundraka Vasudeva and Karna too. Bhima later went to the city of Banasura and collected the vast wealth from him also.
Nakula and Sahadeva who were sent to different direction returned and reported the tributes won by them.
Arjuna defeated the tribal rulers like abhira and nishada. He obtained tributes from Bhagadatta. He wandered over nine varshas that is,
1. Kimpurusha | 2. Harivarsa | 3. Ilavrita | 4. Bhadrashva | 4. Ketumaala | 5. Hiranmya | 6. Ramyaka | 7. Kuru and | 8. Bharata varsha itself |
Arjuna brought huge tributes from these places.
Arjuna also went into seven patalas, won the demons and the deities and brought the tribute even from Bali Chakravarti (Mahabali).
The Rajasuya Yagna sacrifice was started. Yajnavalkya, Paila and Dhaumya and Susama played the role of Adhvaryu, Hota and Udgata.
Lord (Sage) Sri Vedavyasa himself became Brahma.
Dharmaraja (Yudhishthira) was Yajamana (Head) and Draupadi was Yajamana Patni and Brahma, Rudra, Indra etc. deities, and Bhishma, Drona etc. were the elders present in this Great Yagna.
The entire family of Dhritarashtra, Balarama and Yadavas were present.
Goddess Sri Rukmini Devi and Goddess Sri Satyabhama Devi (both are avatars of Goddess Sri Lakshmi Devi) were also specially invited.
At the sacrificial pendal, the debates on philosophical issues were arranged. Dharmaraja (Yudhishthira) asked Bhishma as to whom the agra-puja (first worship) should be offered.
Bhishma suggested that it should be offered to Lord Sri Krishna. Dharma duly offered agra-puja (first worship) to Lord Sri Krishna.
This upsets Shishupala. He talks ill of Lord Sri Krishna. Bhimasena (Bhima) was enraged by this and proceeded to kill Shishupala.
Bhishma restrained. He was destined to be killed by Lord Sri Krishna. Therefore, Bhima did not proceed further.
Shishupala declared to fight against Lord Sri Krishna. Shishupala invited the other kings also to join him.
Lord Sri Krishna pushed the other kings behind and killed Shishupala with his Chakrayudha, that is, Sudarshana Chakra (disc).
After the sacrifice was over and all guests returned, Dharmaraja (Yudhishthira) was chatting with Lord Sri Krishna at the beautiful palace built by Maya.
Duryodhana arrived at the hall of the Indraprasta. The walls of this hall were so transparent that the persons sitting on the other side were visible and presence of the wall itself was not felt.
Consequently Duryodhana hit at the wall when he proceeded. The floor that was studded with blue gems was so soft and clean that Duryodhana felt there was water and he rolled his clothes to avoid the water.
In another part of hall where there was actual water, he failed notice it and fell into the water.
At this confusion of Duryodhana, Bhima, Draupadi and all others laughed.
Duryodhana felt deeply humiliated. Duryodhana and Shakuni returned to Hastinavati with a burning heart and to take revenge vengeance against Pandavas, particularly against Bhima and Draupadi.
The dice play
Shakuni suggested that they should invite Dharmaraja for a dice-play and rob all his wealth and kingdom.
Dhritarashtra first hesitated to agree. However, when Duryodhana pressurized him, he sent Vidura to invite Dharmaraja for the dice-play.
When Vidura came to invite Dharmaraja for dice-play Lord Sri Krishna was not at Indraprastha. He had left for Dvaraka on receiving the information that Salva proposes to attack Dvaraka.
Dharmaraja agreed to go to Hastinavati for playing the dice in spite of the opposition by his brothers and Draupadi.
Vidura also cautioned him against the dangers of the dice play. Pandavas went to dice-play hall with Bhishma, Drona, Kripacharya etc elders.
Dhritarashtra arrived with Vidura. Kauravas arrived with Shakuni and Karna.
Bhishma, Drona, Kripacharya etc elders did not like the idea of dice-play. However they kept quite.
Dharmaraja proposed his entire wealth as a bet for the play and lost it. Then, he went on proposing Nakula, Sahadeva, Arjuna, and Bhima as bet and lost all of them.
Finally he proposed Draupadi and himself also as bet and lost. Duryodhana sent his charioteer Pratikaamin to bring Draupadi to the dice play hall.
Draupadi told him that it is not proper for her to come to the hall where elders are present. Pratikaamin returned.
Duryodhana sent Dussasana to bring Draupadi. Dussasana forcibly dragged her to the hall.
Draupadi asked the question whether Yudhishtira lost her before he himself became a slave. No body answered this question.
Bhishma said, since Dharmaraja himself has accepted the fact he lost Draupadi, we are helpless in the matter.
Draupadi told Bhishma and other elders that dice-play is a deceitful programme. It is adharma. Therefore, victory in this is no victory.
Consequently Dharmaraja (Yudhishthira) himself is not defeated. Therefore, how can I be treated as a slave? You elders are not condemning it as adharma.
Draupadi continues, you are not giving your ruling on what is dharma and what is adharma. Therefore, this assembly is not an assembly of Wiseman at all.
Bhishma, Drona, Kripacharya etc elders kept quite even after this exhortation, since, Kali (Kaliyuga’s Kali) had entered into them.
However, Vidura declared that Draupadi has not become a slave. The adharma has taken over the entire assembly.
Bhima said the hands of Dharmaraja should be burnt. Arjuna appealed to Bhima not to do so.
Duryodhana asks Dussasana to take away the cloths of Pandavas. They removed the same and were clad with deer skin.
Dussasana started to drag the saree of Draupadi. She appealed to Lord Sri Krishna to save her honor. The saree went on extending. A series of sarees appeared one after the other.
Dussasana was exhausted and collapsed. Bhima looked at an iron rod to hit Duryodhana. There were cries of foxes. This was very inauspicious.
Dhritarashtra asked Vidura as to how to ward it off. Vidura said you first release Draupadi.
Dhritarashtra offered three boons to Draupadi. She asked him to release Pandavas and their property. She did not ask anything for herself.
Strictly speaking she had not asked for any boons. The relatives of a dice player have a right to ask for the return of the lost property. She had exercised that right.
Even if it is taken as boon she was within her limits.
A Kshatriya should not ask for more than three boons. She had asked for only two boons. She did not ask anything or herself as she was strictly following Bhagavata dharma.
Dhritarashtra released Pandavas and returned the kingdom. Duryodhana was very angry. Shakuni suggested that Pandavas be invited for the dice play again.
Dhritarashtra invited again. This time the bet proposed by the Kauravas was different.
If Pandavas were defeated they were required to live in the forest for twelve years and live in-cognito for one year.
During this last year, if one of them was found, then, they were required to live in the forest for twelve years again.
Dharmaraja was defeated again and Pandavas had to go to the forest. They went out of Hastinapur through the main gate Vardhamana.
Vidura asked Kunti to stay with him. The people of Hastinapur followed Pandavas up to the banyan tree on the bank of river Ganga. Then Pandavas proceeded to Kamyakavana.
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