Reading Notes; The House of Fire, Part B

Background:
-Vidura is brother to Pandu and Dhritarashtra.
-He is a member of Dhritarashtra's court but he is loyal to the Pandavas.


Story:
-Vidura found out Prince Duryodhana's plot to kill the Pandavas and Queen Kunti.
   -He then told Prince Yudhishtira of Duryodhana's plot to kill them all.
-Arriving at the palace all but Yudhishtira were in awe.
   -Yudhishtira saw that everything was drenched in oil, and that the palace was made of wood.
   -He knew that the palace was easy to catch on fire and burn.
   -He told his brothers and mother of the plot.
-Vidura sent a miner with the Pandavas and Kunti.
   -The plan was to have him dig a tunnel for them to escape Duryhodhana.
   -The miner dug a tunnel at night which led to the forest outside the palace, hiding his work from
    Purochana, the evil captain.
-Purochana was plotting to set the palace on fire during a night with no moon which allowed the miner to finish digging.
   -That same night that he finished, the Pandavas and the Queen all escaped through the tunnel.
   -Bhima, one of the brothers told his brothers and mother to wait while he returned to the guards
    house to set it on fire.
   -The guard and Purochana died in the fire.
-While the guardhouse was on fire a wind passed the fire to the palace.
   -Within the palace was a mother with her 5 sons who had come earlier to beg for food and now
     were sleeping.
   -They all died.
-The next morning the townspeople walked outside and saw the smoke and ash.
   -Within the ash they found the mother and her 5 sons.
   -They thought that they were the Pandavas and Kunti so they all mourned.
   -Word spread to Duryodhana and Dhritarashtra, they both rejoiced.

    Source info: The Pandavas by name


Source: The Indian Heroes by C. A. Kincaid (1921). Link: House of Fire