Dvaipayana lake

Location

Approximate Unlocated; a lake near Kurukshetra

Note

The lake in which Duryodhana hides after the eighteenth day, holding the water still with his powers, and from which he is called out to the mace fight (CE 9.29–9.30). Placed beside the field only to show where the story moves.

In the story

1. 39Day eighteen: the lake and the maceShalya and Shakuni fall, Duryodhana hides in a lake, and Bhima breaks his thighs
2. 40The night raidAshvatthama kills the sleeping Pandava camp, and Duryodhana dies hearing of it

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