Kotikashya

Jayadratha, king of the Sindhus, traveling through the Kamyaka forest to marry another woman, sees Draupadi standing alone at the hermitage gate. Struck by her beauty, he tells his companion Kotikashya that he no longer wishes to marry — he will take this woman instead — and sends him to find out who she is and who protects her.

A group of kings, hunting in the forest, comes upon a lone woman of extraordinary beauty standing in a hermitage, holding a kadamba branch. Their leader, Kotikashya, demands to know who she is, whose wife or daughter she is — and introduces the powerful kings who stand with him, including Jayadratha of Souvira.

Kotikashya, the foremost of the Shibis, arrives at the hermitage and asks a question — but finds only Draupadi there, alone in the forest. With no one else to reply, she must speak for herself, revealing who she is, naming her five husbands, and explaining where they have gone.

While travelling through the forest, Jayadratha of Sindhu catches a glimpse of Draupadi and is instantly besotted — all other women seem like monkeys to him. Despite his companion Kotikashya identifying her as the queen of the five Pandavas, Jayadratha insists on going to see her and enters the empty hermitage like a wolf entering a den of lions.

Jayadratha orders his allied kings to stand firm and attack. The warriors from Shibi, Sindhu, Trigarta, and Souvira face the five Pandavas — and are decimated. Bhima kills Kotikashya with a javelin. Arjuna slays twelve from Souvira with his arrows. Nakula cuts off an elephant's trunk and tusks with his sword. Headless torsos litter the battlefield, and the survivors are routed.