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Originally posted by: .Vrish.

I think that the rationale was that since he was superior to them in age (and to Draupadi in terms of being a husband), that sin didn't attach to him.

The order in which they died is known - what's not explicitly stated, but is implicitly understood on reading - is that they died in the reverse order in which they were born - after Draupadi, then Sahadev, Nakul, Arjun & then Bhima.

Although recently, I read some account - maybe here on I-F - that when Bhima fell, he didn't die, but was rescued by a Naga tribe and taken in as one of their own. Although how he could have lived after having lost everything - including his brothers - is a mystery: he didn't have to leave Indraprastha, but voluntarily did, or else, any of the Pandavas could have, like their other wives, stayed back w/ Parikshit had they so wished.

Originally posted by: rasyafan

hmmm but just because he was elder therefore, he did not sin doesn't make any sense I mean there is no logic behind it.

There has to be a reason why it was not a sin 😕😕😕

Originally posted by: .Vrish.

But I've read in different places that Drupada actually wanted a daughter to cause the destruction of the Kurus - that was what was announced when Draupadi emerged from the flames.

Another possibility - he knew of Drona wanting to face Arjun in war, and decided to win Arjun over to take advantage of that situation for real, and make it a real war, instead of a Bheeshma-Parashurama type battle.

Originally posted by: lovesunshine

Vrish i have also read that Dhrupad wanetd only a powerful son born out of yagna with the sole objective of destroying/killing drona.

Howvere, there is a story I have read somewhere that when the yagna was being performed, exactly just a few mins before the yagna was to give out the fruit of it being sucessful (a son), Dhrupad's wife/queen had to attend an urgent nature's call and the rishis who were performing the yagna kept telling dhrupad to call his wife as the ritual needed to be done with wife but dhrupad failed in that because his wife took longer to come back and thus though a son was born because there was a slight change in the vidhi of the yagna a daughter popped out of the fire too...So draupadi was not the 'planned' child by dhrupad..he only wanted a son. So dhrupad had an extra daughter whom he then planned to also use against drona ...


Read below stories...as is the rule of forum to provide citations please read the links are posted below it..

http://backtogodhead.in/the-birth-of-draupadi-translated-from-sanskrit-by-hridayananda-dasa-goswami/

http://madhwabrahmanas.blogspot.co.uk/2009/08/fascinating-story-behind-draupadi-devis.html

Edited by lovesunshine - 11 years ago

Originally posted by: lovesunshine

Vrish i have also read that Dhrupad wanetd only a powerful son born out of yagna with the sole objective of destroying/killing drona.

Howvere, there is a story I have read somewhere that when the yagna was being performed, exactly just a few mins before the yagna was to give out the fruit of it being sucessful (a son), Dhrupad's wife/queen had to attend an urgent nature's call and the rishis who were performing the yagna kept telling dhrupad to call his wife as the ritual needed to be done with wife but dhrupad failed in that because his wife took longer to come back and thus though a son was born because there was a slight change in the vidhi of the yagna a daughter popped out of the fire too...So draupadi was not the 'planned' child by dhrupad..he only wanted a son. So dhrupad had an extra daughter whom he then planned to also use against drona ...

I will post the link later if I found but i am sure I had read it somewhere..

Originally posted by: lovesunshine

Vrish i have also read that Dhrupad wanetd only a powerful son born out of yagna with the sole objective of destroying/killing drona.

Howvere, there is a story I have read somewhere that when the yagna was being performed, exactly just a few mins before the yagna was to give out the fruit of it being sucessful (a son), Dhrupad's wife/queen had to attend an urgent nature's call and the rishis who were performing the yagna kept telling dhrupad to call his wife as the ritual needed to be done with wife but dhrupad failed in that because his wife took longer to come back and thus though a son was born because there was a slight change in the vidhi of the yagna a daughter popped out of the fire too...So draupadi was not the 'planned' child by dhrupad..he only wanted a son. So dhrupad had an extra daughter whom he then planned to also use against drona ...

I will post the link later if I found but i am sure I had read it somewhere..

Originally posted by: koolsadhu1000

Drupad wanted to give a fitting reply to Drona . It was an anti Drona family ...Shikhandi against him , Drishtadyumna against him and cleverly grabbing Drona's only asset ...Arjun as son in law by making that swayamvar an archery swayamvar . If Arjun was his pride , Drupad snatched him away from him by making him a relation and ensuring he would from now on always be on his side . It was all the build up of Team Drona.