Vaishampayana said: -
1. O descendant of Bharata, when the king thus addressed the sons of Pandu, the wicked-minded Duryodhana became exceedingly happy.
2. O best of the Bharata race, he summoned in private, Purochana and taking up his right hand, he thus spoke to that counsellor.
Duryodhana said: -
3. O Purochana, this world, full of wealth, is mine. It is equally yours with me. (Therefore), you should protect it.
4. I have no other more trustworthy supporter and counsellor than you with whom I can consult.
5. O sire, keep my counsel (a secret) and destroy my enemy by some clever device. Accomplish, what I ask you to do.
6. The Pandavas have been sent by Dhritarastra to Varanavata. They will sport there in the festival at the command of Dhritarastra.
7. Do that by with you can reach Varanavata this very day on a car drawn by swift asses.
8. Going there, erect a quadrangle palace at the outskirts of the city, (which should be) rich in materials and furniture. Guard it (also) well.
9. Use in it (in erecting that house,) hemp, resin and all other inflammable materials that are procurable.
10. Mixing a little earth with ghee, oil, fat and a large quantity of lac, plaster the wall with it.
11. Place carefully all over that house hemp, oil, ghee, lac and wood.
12. In such a way that the Pandavas and other men may not even with scrutiny see them or conclude that it is made of inflammable materials.
13. Erecting such a house and worshipping the Pandavas with great reverence, make them live in it with Kunti and all their friends.
14. Place there for the Pandavas seats, conveyances and beds of best workmanship, as ordered my father.
15. Manage all this in a way so that none in the city of Varanavata may know it, till the end we have in view is accomplished.
16. Knowing that they are sleeping in that house in confidence and without fear, set fire to it, beginning from the gate.
17. The people will think that they have been burnt to death in that burning house; and therefore none will be able to blame us for the death of the Pandavas.
18. Purochana promised to that Kaurava (Duryodhana) to carry out all by saying, “Be it so” and he then went (away) on a swift car drawn by asses.
19. O king, ever obedient to Duryodhana, he went without loss of time. Purochana did all that the prince said, (asked him to do).
Thus ends the hundred and forty-sixth chapter, the instructions to Purochana, in the Jatugriha of the Adi Parva.