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VIRTUE VINDICATED

The struggle between Bhima and Kichaka was like that between Vali and Sugriva.In the end Bhima killed Kichaka, pounding and kneading his body into a shapeless lump of flesh.

Then he gave the glad news of Kichaka's punishment to Draupadi and went in haste to his kitchen, bathed, rubbed sandal paste over his body and slept with satisfaction.

Draupadi awoke the guards of the court and said to them: "Kichaka came to molest me, but as I had warned him, the gandharvas, my husbands, made short work of him. Your commander-in-chief, who fell a prey to lust, has been killed.

Look at him." And she showed them the corpse of Kichaka, which had been reduced to such a shapeless mass that it had no human semblance.

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