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Originally posted by: crazygul

thanks a lott radhika rani di for solving my query ! Ram ji never demanded agni pariksha. it was agni parvesh. seeta ji unable to bear harsh words decided to took agni pravesh and then gods came and testified seeta ji innocence. why seeta ji didn't take Ram ji name ?? why husband names can't be taken by wife in Indian mythology.

people generally take first agni pravesh as agni prakisha like sita ney toh agni pariksha de di thi par Ram ney unko chodh diya. its hurts me a lott. if Ram ji didn;t find her chaste then why they were to become parents ??

my next question is why Sita mata ji is shown on sitting on Left thigh of Lord Rama ??

Originally posted by: crazygul

my next question is why Sita mata ji is shown on sitting on Left thigh of Lord Rama ??

A question popped up in my mind this morning -

Originally posted by: lexy_rix

A question popped up in my mind this morning -

Considering both Sita and Draupadi were both born to bring about the destruction of evil, why is it that Sita was born as a baby but Draupadi was born as a grown woman (if that is the best way to put it)?

Why is it that Sita actually had a proper childhood but Draupadi seemingly never did?

I know this sounds like an unusual question but it has left me wondering to a great deal.

Would Draupadi's personality have turned out differently if she had been born as a baby and got influenced by social morals and codes while growing up? Personally speaking, I don't think so. I mean, Sita had a proper childhood and had to deal with Ravana and raise her kids by herself - which requires a great deal of inner strength and conviction.

Be it Draupadi or Sita, both had to go through their own struggles and dealt with life's challenges with immense bravery and fortitude.

But Sita with a childhood and Draupadi without a childhood - how do you think it reflects in their respective personalities?

Or do you think it was necessary for Draupadi to not have a proper childhood considering her own challenges were quite unique, and quite unlike anything that anyone might've faced?

What I'm asking is - If Draupadi had been born as a baby and had a proper childhood, would the influence of "Dwapar yuga social morals" while growing up have affected her personality in a big way? If yes, how? If not, then why is it that Vyasa thought it better to not let Draupadi have a childhood?

I doubt if it had anything to do with having a childhood. It was more of her upbringing that caused her to be who she was.

Drupad was vengeful and most probably didn't bother about raising kids the proper way. Drishtadyumna was as vengeful as Drupada, Shikandi and Draupadi were not raised in the usual way either. Draupadi was probably more bold because she was meant/raised to be so.

A serial I saw sometime back showed a story I had never encountered before - not sure where it came from. Drupad, mad with a desire for revenge after being humiliated by Drona asked was thirsting to get back at his old friend. His wife (and brother) tried to dissuade him and in the end his wife said she would not like to partake in his madness. In his anger, he decided and declared that she will not be giving birth to his children and not partake in that yaga to beget the kids he wanted. While performing the yaga to obtain a son who can kill Drona and a daughter who can marry Arjuna, he told the sages that he didn't want his wife to give birth to his children and hence the sages after reprimanding him for not informing them earlier, increased the severity of the penance and thus Drishtadymna and Draupadi were born fully grown from the sacrificial fire.

Well, this story also said that he wanted Draupadi to marry Arjuna while I think the original story was Drupad wanting someone equal to Arjuna to be his son in law.

Regardless, I think princesses were well educated during Tretha and Dwapar Yuga to encounter all sorts of possibilities. Its probably the age that made the difference. Women of Tretha Yuga were more submissive and docile(?) than those of the Dwapar Yuga. We had a lot of brave princesses who did things on their own - Draupadi, Chitrangada, Uloopi, Shubadra, Shikandi, Sathyavathi and the list can go on...

I think that even if Draupadi was born as a baby, she would have turned out to be the same. I read somewhere that she wasn't meant to destroy the Kuru lineage and hence she was begot as an adult, brought to life without a childhood so that she wouldn't know how to nurture and raise the next generation. But I think she managed her household splendidly well despite having to deal with more than what women of her age went through.

Here's something interesting...