133.1 Duryodhana becomes envious
After the completion of the funeral rites, the sons of king Pandu, having gone through all the purifying rites prescribed in the Vedas, began to grow up in princely style in the home of their father. Whenever they were engaged in play with the sons of Dhritarashtra, their superiority of strength became marked. In speed, in striking the objects aimed at, in consuming articles of food, and scattering dust, Bhimasena beat all the sons of Dhritarashtra.Vrikodara easily defeated those hundred and one children as if they were one instead of being a hundred and one. The second Pandava used to seize them by the hair, and throwing them down, to drag them along the earth, laughing all the while. By this, some had their knees broken, some their heads, and some their shoulders. That youth, sometimes holding ten of them, drowned them in water, till they were nearly dead. When the sons of Dhritarashtra got up to the boughs of a tree for plucking fruits, Bhima used to shake that tree, by striking it with his foot, so that down came the fruits and the fruitpluckers at the same time. Those princes were no match for Bhima in pugilistic encounters, in speed, or in skill. Bhima used to make a display of his strength by thus tormenting them in childishness but not from malice.
Seeing these exhibitions of the might of Bhima, Duryodhana, the eldest son of Dhritarashtra, began to conceive hostility towards him. The unrighteous Duryodhana, driven by ambition, prepared himself for an act of sin. He thought, 'There is no other individual who can compare with Bhima, in terms of prowess. I shall have to destroy him by artifice. Singly, Bhima dares a hundred of us to the combat. Therefore, when he shall sleep in the garden, I shall throw him into the current of the Ganga. Afterwards, confining his eldest brother Yudhishthira and his younger brother Arjuna, I shall reign sole king without challenge.' Determined thus, the wicked Duryodhana was ever on the watch to find out an opportunity for injuring Bhima.
Seeing these exhibitions of the might of Bhima, Duryodhana, the eldest son of Dhritarashtra, began to conceive hostility towards him. The unrighteous Duryodhana, driven by ambition, prepared himself for an act of sin. He thought, 'There is no other individual who can compare with Bhima, in terms of prowess. I shall have to destroy him by artifice. Singly, Bhima dares a hundred of us to the combat. Therefore, when he shall sleep in the garden, I shall throw him into the current of the Ganga. Afterwards, confining his eldest brother Yudhishthira and his younger brother Arjuna, I shall reign sole king without challenge.' Determined thus, the wicked Duryodhana was ever on the watch to find out an opportunity for injuring Bhima.