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A huge relief picture, covering a sheet of rock 96 feet in length and 43 in breadth, depicts incidents in the story of the Pāndava hero, Arjuna, as told in the *Mahābhārata* epic. The poet relates that the hero, in order to obtain the magic weapon needed for the overthrow of his enemies, made a pilgrimage to the inmost recesses of the