[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [A Classical Dictionary of Hindu Mythology and Religion, Geography, History, and Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.dowson-1879) › c5.522.3 # A Classical Dictionary of Hindu Mythology and Religion, Geography, History, and Literature c5.522.3 A Classical Dictionary of Hindu Mythology and Religion, Geography, History, and Literature c5.522.3 - **Language:** English ### [c5.522.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.dowson-1879.c5.522.3) Twelve years of exile were passed in the jungle, and in the course of this period Jayad-ratha, king of Sindhu, came to the house of the Pāndavas while they were out hunting. He was courteously received by Draupadī, and was fascinated by her charms. He tried to induce her to elope with him, and when he was scornfully repulsed, he dragged her to his chariot and drove off with her. When the Pāndavas returned and heard of the rape, they pursued Jayad-ratha, and pressed him so close that he put down Draupadī, and endeavoured to escape alone. Bhīma resolved to overtake and punish him; and although Yudhi-shthira pleaded that Jayad-ratha was a kinsman, and ought not to be killed, Draupadī called aloud for vengeance, so Bhīma and Arjuna continued the pursuit. Bhīma dragged Jayad-ratha from his car, kicked and beat him till he was senseless, but spared his life. He cut off all Jayad-ratha’s hair except five locks, and made him publicly acknowledge that he was a slave. Draupadī’s revenge was then slaked, and Jayad-ratha was released at her intercession. In the thirteenth year, in which her husbands and she were to live undiscovered, they entered the service of the king of Virāta, and she, without acknowledging any connection with them, became a waiting-maid to the queen. - [Previous: c5.522.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.dowson-1879.c5.522.2) - [Next: c5.522.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.dowson-1879.c5.522.4) - [Up: c5.522](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.dowson-1879.c5.522) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.dowson-1879.c5.522.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.dowson-1879.c5.522.3) · Pramāṇa