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Mahabharata: From Court to Forest

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Ten thousand hungry disciples accompany this guest, arriving after Draupadi has eaten. (7)
Antlers snag a Brahmin's fire-making sticks, setting a deadly search in motion. (4)
Sanskrit fire-kindling wood, caught in antlers before the brothers' fatal thirst. (5)
Sage who answers Yudhishthira's gambling grief with the story of Nishadha's king. (11)
___ Parva: the gambling section within the Mahabharata's second book. (5)
___ Parva: the third book, with a wilderness for its stage. (4)
Divine giver of the Pashupata weapon after Arjuna's mountain ordeal. (5)

Another king undone by gambling, whose tale consoles Yudhishthira in the forest. (4)
Wisdom at court, ignored: the counselor who warns against the gambling match. (6)
Court messenger who carries Draupadi's question: had her husband lost himself first? (10)
One of the hundred challenges the outrage against Draupadi in their own assembly. (7)
Gandhara prince and Kaurava uncle who makes family fortunes turn on a throw. (7)
Forest beside the Sarasvati where the dispossessed brothers establish an early refuge. (7)
Dhritarashtra's royal 'ask and receive', used first to free Yudhishthira. (4)