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with a pretty house, etc., and gave the Dhārtarāṣṭras and the Pāṇḍavas to him as his pupils. *Arjuna* (b) became the foremost of D.'s pupils, even superior to *Aśvatthāman* (c). Also the *Vṛṣṇis* and the *Andhakas* and princes from various countries became his pupils. Even *Karṇa* came to learn the *Dhanurveda*; he, supported by *Duryodhana*, frequently defied *Arjuna*: I, 132, 5211, 5214, (5216), 5219, 5220, 5223, 5225, 5228, 5230, 5231, 5236, (5237), 5238, 5239.—§ 204 (Ekalavya): I, (Sambhavap.): The foremost pupils of Droṇa were *Duryodhana*, *Bhīmasena*, *Aśvatthāman* (b), *Nakula* (c) and *Sahadeva* (c), *Yudhiṣṭhira* (d), and *Arjuna* (e). The Dhārtarāṣṭras became very jealous of Bhīma and *Arjuna*: I, 132, 5270.—§ 206 (do.): One day D. caused an artificial bird to be placed on the top of a tree, and first repeatedly asked *Yudhiṣṭhira*, when he stood aiming at the bird, what he did see. He answered that he saw the tree, D., his brothers, and the bird, D. reproachingly told him to stand apart. Then D. repeated the experiment with his other pupils with the same result (I, 132). At last *Arjuna*'s turn came; he said first that he saw only the vulture, and then that he saw only its head, and when D. gave the order he struck off the head of the bird with his shaft: I, 132, 5276, (5278); 5282, (5284), 5286; 133, 5289, 5292, 5293, 5294, 5296.—§ 207 (do.): *Arjuna* rescued the life of D. by shooting with five arrows an alligator in the *Gaṅgā*, which had seized the thigh of D.