Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c7.299

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3) Carried the Pāṇḍavas on shoulders. During their exile in the forest the Pāṇḍavas became too tired to walk any further when Bhīma remembered Ghaṭotkaca, who promptly appeared before the Pāṇḍavas, and at the instance of Bhīma got down a number of Rākṣasas also. Ghaṭotkaca carrying Pāñcālī on his shoulders, and the Rākṣasas carrying the Pāṇḍava brothers on their shoulders went by air to Badarikāśrama where Naranārāyaṇas were doing tapas, landed them there, and then they (Ghaṭotkaca and his companions) took leave of the Pāṇḍavas. (Vana Parva, Chapter 145).