KumaravyasaBharata : Viraata Parva - Part 1
1) Viraata Parva details the last year of living in disguise for each of 5 pandavas and Draupadi. Viraata is the name of the King who helps them during this year. 2) Duryodhana and Kaurava army schemed to destroy Pandavas, Insult Draupadi, during their 12 year vanavasa, when they are weaponless, but fail miserably from gandharvas, Bheema and Arjuna and return defeated. When they were almost at the completion of 12th year and worried about the last year, 4 brothers of Pandavas except Yudhistira go into near death experience from a unknown yaksha and demand yudhistira to answer his 122 questions to save his brothers from death. Yudhistira is blessed with Dharma deva on his answers and saves his brothers. 3) Pandavas perform Homa , seek blessings of Agni deva, Kula purohitas, Rishis and rest of the crew and gives them a send off before departing to their year in disguise. In Our Puranas, Agni is seen as a very Prominent Devatha in all subha karyas. Since Agni is Urdhva Mukha (up