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The Great Epics
A rakshasa woman was sent to lure Bhima to his death. Instead, she fell in love with the man she was supposed to destroy.
She was sent to kill five sleeping people and bring them back to be eaten. She warned them instead.
The Pandavas had just escaped the house of lac, the palace built of flammable material and burned down around them on Duryodhana's orders, through a tunnel, and had come out into forest with nothing.
Officially they were dead. Ayodhya was mourning them. They were five men and their mother, walking at night, with no destination and no resources.
Bhima carried the others when they could not walk. When they stopped, he stayed awake and the rest slept.
The rest of this story, read aloud, and a new one every day.