Pandavas Move to Dvaitavana After Draupadi's Abduction
After Draupadi is abducted, the Pandavas leave Kamyaka forest and settle in Dvaitavana at Markandeya's hermitage, living frugally on fruit and rigid in their vows. There, while devoted to brahmanas and controlled in their conduct, they experience a great calamity that eventually ends in happiness — beginning with a brahmana's desperate plea for his lost kindling.
They had suffered supreme distress when Krishna — Draupadi — was abducted. Together with his brothers, Yudhishthira left Kamyaka forest. He led them to beautiful Dvaitavana, to the hermitage of the sage Markandeya, where there were succulent roots and fruit.
All the Pandavas began to reside there with Draupadi, controlled in their vows and living frugally on a diet of fruit. Yudhishthira, Bhimasena, Arjuna, and the two sons of Madri — Nakula and Sahadeva — all of them scorchers of enemies, with dharma in their souls, devoted to brahmanas and rigid in their vows, lived in Dvaitavana.
While they were there, they experienced a great calamity that eventually ended in happiness.
One day, as Yudhishthira sat with his brothers in the forest, a brahmana approached swiftly and spoke to him sorrowfully. His kindling and churning rod had been carried off by a deer. His agnihotra (sacred fire ritual) was in danger.
Yudhishthira felt sorry. He grasped his bow and left with his brothers. Aranyaka Parva, Chapter 592