Vidura
Vidura is the uncle of Yudhishthira who warned him of Duryodhana's plot to kill the Pandavas in the lac palace. Vidura secretly informed Bhishma of their survival after the palace burned to ashes.
↻ synthesized from 2 sources
When
- First attested
- 1500 BCE
- Attested period
- -1500 – 2020
- Historical notes
- Part of the Mahabharata epic.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Chitraratha, Dhaumya, Dhritarashtra, Bhishma, Hidimba, Drona, Purochana, Jupiter, Mitra, Varuna, Cyclops, Hecatoncheires, Saturn, Iuventas, Terminus, Lua
- allied with
- Yudhishthira, Bhima
Mentioned by
Sources
Source passages
“Yudhishthira, warned by his uncle Vidura’s coded message, deterred followers but prepared an escape. Spotting the palace’s weakness, he and Bhima planned a tunnel with Vidura’s sapper. After a year, Bhima torched the house during a feast, leaving a Nishada family inside as decoys. The Pandavas fled via the tunnel, while Dhritarashtra, believing them dead, ordered their funeral rites in Hastinapura.”
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“These two deities correspond to the helper gods of the sovereign in Vedic religion (Briquel refers to Dhritarashtra and Vidura, the figures of the Mahabharata)”
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