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Four brothers, four directions

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Sahadeva's route reached Chola and Pandya country, far south of anything else in the epic.

Bhima went east (Panchala, Videha, Kashi, sparing Anga), Nakula west (Mathura, Madra, Gandhara, mostly by diplomacy), Sahadeva south to the Pandya, Chola and Kerala kingdoms. The retelling says it took eighteen months and storerooms had to be added at Indraprastha.

Who: Bhima, Nakula, Sahadeva, Arjuna

Bound to

Arjuna's conquest of the north mirror

Jarasandha: born in halves, killed in halves causes

Places: Mathura, Gandhara, Madurai region

Where this comes from

• modern-popular · r-astro.com: the conquests
• vulgate · Wikipedia: Sahadeva (search listing) not opened

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