Book 3 of 18 — Critical Edition (Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute)
Vana Parva — The Book of the Forest
वनपर्व
Twelve years of exile spent in pilgrimage and penance, and the celestial weapons Arjuna wins along the way.
Episodes in this parva
- The yaksha's questions — Four brothers drink before answering and fall beside the lake, and the fifth is asked what a man must be before he may drink
Continue through the epic
- Sabha Parva — Book 2 — A hall of illusions, an emperor's consecration, and a dice game that stakes a kingdom, a queen and five men's freedom.
- Virata Parva — Book 4 — The thirteenth year, served in disguise in a stranger's court, where a single recognition would restart the exile.
