An Index to the Names in the Mahabharata, with Short Explanations and a Concordance to the Bombay and Calcutta Editions and P. C. Roy's Translation c5.s6.297.1

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[Jatugṛhaparvan] (“the section relating to the lac-house,” the 8th of the minor parvans of Mhbhr.). (Cf. Jatuveçmākhya[m parva].) § 213: Vaiçampāyana briefly related the plan of Saubala, Duryodhana, Duḥçāsana, Karṇa, and Dhṛtarāshṭra to burn the Pāṇḍavas and Kuntī in a lac-house, and their escape. Asked by Janamejaya, he then began to relate it more fully. The Pāṇḍavas frustrated all the plans of murdering them laid by Duryodhana, etc., without speaking of them, in obedience to the counsels of Vidura. People began to speak in all public places of installing Yudhishṭhira on the throne instead of Dhṛtarāṣṭra. Duryodhana represented to Dhṛtarāṣṭra that this would for ever exclude himself and his brothers from the throne (I, 141). Duryodhana, Karṇa, Śakuni, and Duḥśāsana held a consultation together, and Duryodhana prevailed upon Dhṛtarāṣṭra to exile the Pāṇḍavas to Vāraṇāvata (“Aśvatthāman is on my side; with him follow Droṇa and Kṛpa; Vidura is dependent on us for its means of life, though he is covertly with the foe”) (I, 142). Duryodhana and his brothers began gradually to win over the people to their side by grants of wealth and honours, while Dhṛtarāṣṭra suggested to the Pāṇḍavas to visit the festival of Paśupati at Vāraṇāvata.