ULOOPITHE NAGA PRINCESS WHO FELL IN LOVE WITH ARJUNA

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Kamala Chandrakant S.S.Havaldar Anant Pai

Cover illustration by: V.B.Khalap

Amar Chitra Katha Pvt Ltd© Amar Chitra Katha Pvt Ltd, 1974, Reprinted August 2008, ISBN 81-8482-109-3

Published & Printed by Am ar Chitra Katha Pvt. Ltd., 14 Marthanda, 4th floor,84 Dr. Annie Besant Road, Mum bai 400 018. India

ARJUNA,THE PANPAVA,ONCE BROKE A VOW. FOR THIS OFFENCE, HE HAP TO 00 ON AN EX ILE FOR TWELVE YEARS. ACCOMPANIEP BY BRAHMAN? HE SET OUT FROM INPRAPRA5THA ,THE CAPITAL.

HIS FIRST HALT WAS AT 6AN60TRI, THE SOURCE OF THE RIVER GANG A.

WHEREVER HE WENT; ARJUNA PERFORMEP THE FIRE SACRIFICE. HE LOOKEP UPON THIS AS HIS SACREP PUTY SOMETIMES, A FIRE SACRIFICE COHTIMUEP FOR MANY PAYS.

AS HE WAS ABOUT TO STEP O UT- THE BRAHMANS RUSHEP FORWARP TO HIS RESCUE.

BUT WHEN THEY REACH EP THE SPOT; ARJUNA HAP VANISHED FROM SIGHT.

ARJUNA WAS PR A 66EP PEEP POWN INTO THE RIVER TILL HE CAME TO A BEAUTIFUL PALACE.

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HE SAT BEFORE THE SACRIFICIAL FIRE ANP PERFORMED HIS RITES WITH PEI/OTIOM.

you HAVE 5AVE9 My LIFE. I AM GRATEFUL TO YOU, MY BELOVEP HU53ANP. I5HALL

ULOOPl LEP ARJUNA BACK TO THE SPOT FROM WHERE HER MAGICAL POWERS HAP PRAWN HIM-

HE WILL SOON FORGET ME.

AS ARJUNA EMERGE? FROM THE WATER...

...UNABLE TO BEAR THE GRIEF OF PARTING, ULOOPl HAP DISAPPEARED

WHERE WERE VOU, 0 PANPAVA?WHAT HAPPENED

THE MOMENT ARJUNA APPEARED, ONE OF THE BRAHMAN5 WHO HAP ACCOMPANIED HIMCAME FORWARD.

WHAT POWER. !$ IT THAT VRAM ME TOWARDS HER?

LATER, AT THE COURT- 0 KIN6! I AM A NOBLE KSHATRIYA’* SON. I WI5H TO MARRY YOUR DAUGHTER.

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MONTHS LATER A SON 1HAS BORN TO THEM

GOOP.NOW IT 1$ TIME FOR ME TO CONTINUE ON MY, PILGRIMAGE.

HE SHALL BE (CALLED BABHRUVAHANA-

WHEN BABHRUVAHANA WAS OVER A YEAR OLD, ARJUNA LEFT MANIPUR.

MEANWHILE, ULOOPI HAP BEEN VERY UNHAPPY $INCE SHE PARTEP FROM ARJUNA.

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/UWtfAM NOT 0 O U > LOVE ME. THEREFORE I

PON’T WANT TO GOTO HIM. BUT I CAN SPENPMY TIME WITH CHITRANGAPA ANV BABHRUVAHANA,

WHOM HE LOVES.

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WE 5HALL AWAIT M UR VI? I T9 WITH PLEASURE, PEAR

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A9 BABHRUVAHANA GREW UP, ULOOPIJRUE JO HER WORP, OFTEN VI5ITEP. SHE WIELPEP A GREAT INFLUENCE OVER HIM.

ULOOPI TOLP HIM STORIES ABOUT ARJUNA15 ACHIEVEMENT9.

ANP WHEN BABHRUVAHANA BECAME KING, AFTER Hit GRANDFATHER’S PEATH HE BECAME A FIT SUCCESSOR-

YOUR FATHER ANP UNCLE5 HAVE L05T THEIR KINGDOM TO THEIR C0U5INS.THE KAURAVA5, IN A GAME

OF PICE.

MEANWHILE, AT THE BATTLE OF KURUK5HETRA, ARJUNA,5HIELPEP BV 5HIKHANPI,5H0WEREP A VOLLEY OF ARROWS ON BHEE$HMA,THE CO m A N PEK OF THE KAURAVA5.

ARJUNA HAS SINNEP. FOR THIS HE 5HOULP 60 TO HELL WHEN,

THE VA5U5 WENT TO GANGA,THEIR MOTHER.

ULOOPI, UNOBSERVEDHEARP EVERYTHING.

MY HUSBANP P0E5 NOT PESERVE 5UCH A FATE.

WORSE SINS HAVE ^BEEN COAAMITTEP ON THE BATTLEFIELDOFJ KURUKSHETRA.

SHE WENT TO HER FATHER, KAURAVYA.

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•THE CUR5E WILL BE REPEEMEP IF ARJUNA 15 KILLEP IN BATTLE By HIS SON, BABHRUVAHANA. v

MEANW HILE , THE PANPAVA9 HAP WON THE WAR AGAIN5T THE KAURAVA9...

KAURAVYA CAME BACK TO H I* DAUGHTER ANP TOLP HER ABOUT IT.

THAT 15 BAP. WHEN THE TIME COMES,I WILL } TO BE THER£ 1 MY HUS BAN P.

,..A N P VUPHISHTHIRA,THE ELDEST OF THE PANPAVA5, WAS CROWNED KING.

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SOON AFTERWARPS, YUPHISHTHIRA, PECIPEP TO PERFORM THE HORSE SACRIFICE.

AS THE HORSE WAS LET LOOSE ANP ARJUNA PREPARED TO FOLLOW

AT LAST, THE HORSE ARRIVED AT THE KINGDOM OF MANIFUR.

I A GREAT KIN6P0M? MY SON J IS ITS KINO. I HOPE,HE

PREPARES TO FI6HT WITH ME LIKE A TRUE

KSHATRIYA.

ARJUNA FOLLOWED THE SACRIFICIAL HORSE AS IT WANDERED AT WILL THROUGH VARIOUS KINGDOMS EITHER WINNING OR CONQUERING ALLIES FOR. THE PANDAVAS.

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FATHER, I AM PROUPTOBE YOUR SON. I WELCOME YOU TO MY" KIN6POM.

OH KINS!THIS IS NOT

PROPER.YOU HAVE FAILED IN YOUR

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JU ST THEN, ULOOPI ARRIVE? ON THE 9CENE.

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HE PUT ON HIS ARMOUR, MOUNTED HIS CHARIOT, DROVE UP TO THE SACRIFICIAL HORSE...T

AN ARROW SENT BY BABHRUVAHANA PIERCEP ARJUNA THROUGH THE SHOULDER.

WEAK WITH PAIN, ARJUNA RESTEP AWHILE LEANING AGAINST HIS BOW,

LOOKING ALMOST PEAO.

ARJUNA CUT OFF THE STANDARD ON BABHRUVAHANA’5 CHARIOT ANP,..

INFURIATED, BABHRUVAHANA GOT DOWN FROM HIS CHARIOT AND FOUGHT HIS FATHER ON FOOT.

. . . K ILLED THE HORSES.

ARJUNA ATTACKED HIM RELENTLEtSLV T IL L ...

AT THE 5AME MOMENT PARTLY THROUGH EXERTION BUT MORE OUT OF GRIEFBABHRUVAHANA FELL, UNCONSCIOUS.------------------ !_________________________

I HAVE SAP NEWSfor you. youRHUSBANP HAS BEEN KILLEP By THE KIN6 WHO H/MSELF NOW LIES IN A SWOON.

AT THE BATTLEFIELP- WHEN SHE C m E TO HER SENSES, SHE SAW (JLOOPI.

0 ULOOPI!1 KNOW HOW PEVOTEP you ARE TO OUR HUSBANP. YET I PO NOT

FINP you 6RIEVIN6.

A MESSENGER RAN TO CHIT RAN 6APA. CHITRAN6APA TURNED PALE.

WHEN ULOOPI SHOWEP NO SIGN OF EMOTION, CHITRANGWA WENT TO

SHE FOUNP THAT ALL HER ATTEMPTS TO REVIVE ARJUNA WERE IN VAIN, SO SHE TURNEP TO ULOOPI. — -------------------

BUT ULQOPI REMAIN EP UN MOVE P.

WHY 5H0ULD IT?BY KILLING ARJUNA IN BATTLE I HAVE PONE WHAT YOU WANTED OF ME.

15 NO REDEMPTION.I SHALL HAVE TO SINK INTO HELL.50 DREADFULLY HAVE I SINNED IN KILLING N\Y OWN FATHER.

ANP BABHRUVAHANA $AT NEXT TO HIS PARENT*.

m CLOSEP HER EYES ANP THOUGHT OF THE 6EfA OF THE MAKE PEOPLE,

ANP LO, THE OEM, THE MOST PRECIOUS POSSESSION OF THE SNAKE PEOPLE, CAME SAILING THROUGH THE SKIES... ------------------------------------------------

...ANP PROPPED INTO HER PALMS. ULOOPI WENT TO BABHRUVAHANA.

THE WORDS P IP NOT CONSOLE BABHRUVAHANA.

ARJUNA WOKE UP RUBBIN6 Hit EYES LIKE ONE WHO HAP BEEN FAST ASLEEP FOR A L0N6 TIME.

HE WENT UP TO ARJUNA ANP PLACEP THE 6EN\ ON HI9 CHE9T WHERE THE ARROW HAP PIERCEP HIM.

HE SAW BABHRUVAHANA LOOKINO AT HIM IN WONPER.

ONLy THEN PIIP ARJUNA NOTICE CHITRAN6APA ANP ULOOPt. HETURNEPTO BABHRUVAHANA.

EPICS & M YTHO LO G Y

ULOOPILuck seemed to favour Arjuna. The Pandava was not only handsome and skilled but also a brave warrior. He won the hand of a beautiful princess but a past encounter with the mysterious Naga princess, Uloopi, remained with him like an enchanting dream. On that occasion, he had saved her life. Would she now work her charms to bring him back from the dead?

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