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megha sharma

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Posted: 11 years ago

#1051

@bheegi---that part literally caught my attention

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megha sharma

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Posted: 11 years ago

#1052

k.bye for now.

would try to come after tonight's episode

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bheegi

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Posted: 11 years ago

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@Megha...thanks for posting all these citations. I'm reading them one by one

This is exactly my POV on Draupadi's fall on Meru. I'm glad someone else thinks like me:(this is the blog by pallavi that you posted)

I think VedVyas was right in letting the fiery heroine of his epic fall off first. He made sure out of all the six who set off into the Himalayas, it was she who attained peace and salvation first. She doesn't remain lingering and labouring behind to grieve the fall and demise of any of her husbands. She is spared. She is relieved the fastest. She is finally at peace.

Please do note that, only after Draupadi, the personification of "divine luck" granted to the Pandavas, leaves them, do they start falling off one after the other on their icy track.

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Devashree

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Posted: 11 years ago

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Originally posted by: MS-meghasharma

http://pallavion.blogspot.in/2011/12/fire-and-ice-yajnaseni-draupadi.html

i lvd this article.it's really very well written.i lvd how the writer analysed her character.

One of the most perfect analysis of Draupadi's character I have read on net.👏

Thanks fro sharing this wonderful piece Medha.

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megha sharma

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Posted: 11 years ago

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thanks devashree and bheegi.

honestly speaking i lvd pallavi's article the most out of all that i have posted here.

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bheegi

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Posted: 11 years ago

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@Megha:

The heart of a mother is well exposed when Draupadi comments "Do not make his mother, Drona's wife, cry the way I do in my chastity shedding tears constantly in distress over a lost child". She knows the pain of loosing children, so did not want another mother to experience it!

This is why I just love Draupadi. There are people who called her blood thirsty, unforgiving and vengeful. These people have just not understood the real Draupadi. A woman who can forgive her son's killer is the epitome of dharma. She even took care of Gandhari in her old age.

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bheegi

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Posted: 11 years ago

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This is the Draupadi I wanted to see...but is always a pleasure to read this aspect of her character (that SP never showed us)

When Draupadi finds, to her horror, that all her husbands and even her unfailing best friend Krishna are inching towards a compromise with the Kauravas and begging merely for five villages to look after instead of the entire Hastinapur that is rightfully theirs, she brings forth her entire feminine armoury of tears, command on language and the bruises on her honour that refuse to heal, to turn the course of events inexorably towards war. She upbraids Krishna thus:

"How could your sakhi, the wife of the Pandavas, Dhrishtadyumna's sister be dragged into a royal assembly as I was done? I was in my period, I was wearing a single cloth, deep in anguish I was shaking all over, and I was hauled by force into the assembly of the Kurus. Those sinners, evils sons of Dhritarashtra, they laughed seeing me there, in the middle of that royal assembly, in the midst of kings, my saree being pulled off my body."

"While the sons of Pandu were still alive, while the Panchalas were still alive, while the Yadus were still alive, they wanted to enjoy me as a slave is enjoyed."

"Shame on the strength of Bheemasena! Shame on Arjuna's Gandeeva! Shame on them that they sat enduring my ill-treatment! Shame on Yudhishtira! Shame on them if Duryodhana lives even for another instant!"

Draupadi, crying aloud inconsolably in the jungle, wailing again and again, forlorn, heart-broken, desolate, disconsolate, her heart sinking with the grief of her boundless sorrow, tells Krishna:

"No, Krishna, I have neither husbands, nor sons, nor relatives. I have no brothers, I have no father, nor have I even you! Because, Krishna, you all ignore how I was outraged in that assembly, as if that grief does not touch your heart. I can never forget for a moment how Karna laughed at me, seeing my plight then.
Remember Krishna, you had the responsibility to protect me forever for four reasons: because you are related to me, because I am an honourable woman, because you are my friend, and because you are capable of doing it."

This is from Pallavi's blog that Megha just posted