[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) › c8.1825 # Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c8.1825 Purāṇic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Purāṇic Literature c8.1825 - **Language:** English ### [c8.1825](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c8.1825) 2) Life in Hastināpura and the lac-palace incident. After the birth of the Pāṇḍavas, Pāṇḍu with his wife and children spent a very long time in the forest of Śataśṛṅga. Kaśyapa, the royal priest of Vasudeva, performed the Upanayana (investiture with the sacred thread) and such other religious ceremonies ordained for boyhood. They were educated under the sage Śuka. One day in the Spring season Pāṇḍu's resolution broke down under the exhilarating influence of the season and he caught hold of Mādrī and embraced her despite earnest and repeated protests from Mādrī. At once the curse of the sage took effect and Pāṇḍu fell dead. It was the custom then that the wife should end her life in the funeral pyre of her husband and so Kuntī and Mādrī came forward to do so. But Mādrī said that one of them should live to take care of the children and so entrusting her children also to the care of Kuntī, Mādrī jumped into the funeral pyre and ended her life. The sages of the Śataśṛṅga forest took the children and Kuntī to Hastināpura and handing them over to the charge of Dhṛtarāṣṭra came back. - [Previous: c8.1824](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c8.1824) - [Next: c8.1826](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c8.1826) - [Up: c8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c8) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c8.1825](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c8.1825) · Pramāṇa