veṛīsaṃhāra | वेऋईसंहार | veRIsaMhAra
veṛī—saṃhāra | वेऋई—संहार | m. ‘binding up of the braided hair’, N. of a well-known drama by Bhaṭṭa-nārāyaṇa (who probably lived in the 9th century; its subject is taken from an incident narrated in the 2nd and 8th books of the Mahā-bhārata, in which is described how Yudhiṣṭhira gambled away all his possessions, including Draupadī, and how Duḥ-śāsana then insulted Draupadī by loosening her braided hair and dragging her away by her dishevelled locks, and how Bhīma, who witnessed the insult, swore that he would one day kill Duḥ-śāsana and drink his blood; this threat he fulfilled, and Draupadī's hair was then bound up again; cf. MBh. ii, 2229-2235, viii, 4235).