Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c7.2391

Purāṇic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Purāṇic Literature c7.2391

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c7.2391

KHANAKA. A messenger sent by Vidura, secretly to the Pāṇḍavas who were living in the wax-house. Vidura sent a message through Khanaka to the effect that Duryodhana had decided to set fire to the wax-house employing Purocana to do it on the 14th night of the dark lunar fortnight. (M.B. Ādi Parva, Chapter 147).

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Mahābhārata — Vyāsa, Sanskrit