VIJAY TV BHAKTHI THIRUVIZHA SEASON 12, DAY 3 – DHARMAME VELLUM BY PROFESSOR ILLAMPIRAI MANIMARAN – Part 2

VIJAY TV BHAKTHI THIRUVIZHA SEASON 12, DAY 3 – DHARMAME VELLUM BY PROFESSOR ILLAMPIRAI MANIMARAN – Part 2

The next episode explained by the Professor Illampirai Manimaran to show the Dharmam of Yudhishtra brought tears to my eyes. In fact, the Professor herself was so involved and emotional while narrating the same that all of us were transported to the battleground of Kurukshetra.

It was the 13^th day of the Mahabharatha battle. A padmavyugam had been formed by the Kauravas. Abimanyu, who had learned how to enter the padmavyugam when he was in his mother Subhadra’s womb, entered all alone into the vyugam as his father and uncles were elsewhere in the battleground.  Bheema was the only one close by and he noticed Abhimanyu proceeding deep into the vyugam breaking down the formation by killing the soldiers.

Aware that Abhimanyu only knew how to enter the vyugam and not how to exit, Bheema tried to help him. Jayathrathan, Kaurava’s brother in law (married to the only sister of the 100 Kauravas) threw a kondrai flower garland across Bheema’s path. A great Shiva bhaktha, Bheema hesitated to cross the garland and in this momentary hesitation, the vyugam completely closed around Abhimanyu and never allowed him to come out.

At the end of the day, when Arjuna came to know that Abhimanyu was crushed inside the vyugam, he was inconsolable. When he learnt that Jayathrathan made sure Bheema could not help Abhimanyu, he vowed to kill Jayathrathan before sunset the next day or else kill himself.

That night, the great dharmavan, Yudhishtra called Gadothgajan and asked him to go and warn Duryodhana to hide Jayathrathan the whole of next day so that he does not get killed. Inspite of Arjuna’s vow that he will kill himself if he does not kill Jayathrathan by next evening, Yudhishtra did this as Duchalai, wife of Jayathrathan was the only sister for both Kauravas and Pandavas and Yudhishtra did not want her to be widowed.

That Krishna did a leelai the next evening by hiding the sun and then showing it later thereby helping Arjuna kill Jayathrathan is another story.

The above was narrated with great emotion by the Professor. Her description of the Pandavas sorrow for the loss of Abhimanyu made the audience feel the loss of Abhimanyu right there and then and not as if it happened eons ago!

Here is the you tube link of the programme