Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c5.1182

c5.1182

(2) Duryodhana harms Bhīmasena. Now, Pāṇḍu was dead and Mādrī also died in the funeral pyre of her husband. Forlorn and helpless Kuntī and her five sons came to Hastināpura, and Dhṛtarāṣṭra welcomed them to the palace. Thus arose the occasion for the Pāṇḍavas and the Kauravas to live together in the Hastināpura palace. And, naturally there used to be petty differences and quarrels between the Pāṇḍava and Kaurava princes. Bhīma being in every way a giant the Kauravas had often to suffer at his hands. To collect all the hundred Kauravas together and throw them away in one lump to push them to the ground, to suffocate them by holding their heads under water etc—these were some of the childish pranks played by Bhīma on the Kauravas. The constant repetition of such pranks and mischiefs on the part of Bhīma rendered him an object of hatred for the Kauravas among whom the common conviction grew that it was essential to put an end to Bhīma's life for their safety, nay even their very existence.