why were pandavas sent to hell
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A jealous Duryodhana invited Yudhishthira to play a gambling match which was one of the turning points of the epic. The Pandavas and Draupadi lost fame, wealth and kingdom because of Yudhishthira's gambling addiction and were sent on exile for thirteen years.
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There is no one ever born in this world who is completely sinless, even if you have done a very tiny sin (Yudhishthir deceived his Guru) for a few seconds you have to experience hell. Good deeds do not erase bad deeds. The duration of stay depends on the quantum of good and bad deeds. If you have done a lot of good deeds you spend longer time in heaven.
In any case no one stays in heaven or hell forever. If your slate of Karma is not clear you will be reborn. If you have nullified all.good and bad deeds you will get Moksha.
Pandavas and Kauravas attained moksha after spending time in hell and heaven both. Yudhishthir experienced hell too. So did everyone else including Pandavas and Kauravas
This is what Swargorahana Parva says as happened…
Yudhishthir reaches heaven and sees Duryodhan and he gets very angry. He says its because of him that I, my brothers and Draupadi suffered so much. All major kings died. He should not be here. To which Narada says you are right about his deeds but he obtained heaven because he died on battlefield.
Once a person reaches heaven he gives up all his enmity. Everyone here is your friend now. Give up your anger and meet Duryodhan with Courtsey
Yudhishthir refuses and wants to go where his brothers are and he is taken to hell, where he sees his brothers and Draupadi in pain. He is horrified and angry and he tells the messenger who escorted him that he will stay with his family in hell and not come back to heaven
After which the assembled Gods come to the place where he is. And tell Yudhishthir that he was looking at hell. As a rule all who die have to see hell and heaven both. If you have done good deeds all your life, you see what hell is like and then go to heaven to enjoy the fruits of your good deed. If you have sinned then you see what heaven is like and then enjoy fruits of your bad deed in hell.
Now that you have seen what hell is let's us go back to heaven. Your brothers and family have also got a glimpse of hell and are waiting for you there
(Please note Pandavas and Draupadi died 36 years after others, so when Yudhishthir sees Duryodhan in heaven, he wasn't there the entire time. )
Once there Yudhishthir meets everyone and everyone both kauravas Pandavas and everyone else were an incarnation of a Deva, Asura, Yaksha, Gandharva or Apsara merged into their original entity.
Yudhishthir merged into Yama.