Hidimba's forest

Location

Approximate Unlocated; a forest beyond the Ganga from Varanavata

Note

The text has the Pandavas cross the Ganga by boat and enter a dense forest where Hidimba lives. The Hidimba temple at Manali is a much later tradition and is not followed here.

In the story

1. 8The house of lacA palace built to burn; the Pandavas escape by tunnel into the forest and live in hiding

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