[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975) › c5.1184 # Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c5.1184 Purāṇic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Purāṇic Literature c5.1184 - **Language:** English ### [c5.1184](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c5.1184) When next morning after the water-sports the Pāṇḍavas and the Kauravas awoke from sleep Bhīma was found missing. Duryodhana said that Bhīma had returned earlier to Hastināpura, but this did not satisfy the Pāṇḍavas. Kuntī lamented over the absence of Bhīma. Bhīma, who drank the nāga rasa lay on the veranda of Vāsuki for eight days in the manner of one who had lost consciousness. By the time he woke up on the eighth day the body had almost fully assimilated the rasa. Vāsuki told Bhīma that eight potfuls of nāgarasa would impart the strength of 10,000 elephants. And then at the instance of Vāsuki Bhīma took his bath in holy waters and wore new clothes and fragrant garland. He ate the pudding offered by Vāsuki, and taking leave of him and followed by nāgas he came up from the water to the bank of the Gaṅgā. Bhīma gave a detailed description to his mother and brothers of all that had happened to him. Dharmaputra advised him to keep the secret. After the incident, once again was Kālakūṭa poison mixed in the food of Bhīma. But, Yuyutsu born of the vaiśya woman to Dhṛtarāṣṭra gave the Pāṇḍavas confidential report about it. Because of the powerful effect of nāga rasa, the Kālakūṭa consumed by Bhīma did no harm to him but it only got assimilated in his body. On another occasion Duryodhana killed the charioteer of Bhīma. (Bhāṣa Bhārata, Chapter 127 and 129). - [Previous: c5.1183](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c5.1183) - [Next: c5.1185](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c5.1185) - [Up: c5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c5) ## Cites (1) - [Mahābhārata](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c5.1184](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c5.1184) · Pramāṇa