Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c5.771

c5.771

Next, we see Dhrṣṭadyumna, during the time of the forest life of the Pāṇḍavas. He consoled Pāñcālī, who was miserable. After that he took the sons of Pāṇḍavī, to his house. While the Pāṇḍavas were living in the forest ‘Kāmyaka’, Dhrṣṭadyumna visited them. The forest life of the Pāṇḍavas came to an end. A battle between the Pāṇḍavas and the Kauravas became inevitable. Then the Pāṇḍavas selected Dhrṣṭadyumna, as the commander-in-general of their army. He ordered for a general parade of the army and gave them instructions. (M.B. Ādi Parva, Chapters 166 to 195; the whole of Sabhā Parva; Vana Parva, Chapters 12, 22 and 51; Virāṭa Parva, Chapter 72; Udyoga Parva, Chapters 50, 157, 163 and 164).