This article says VanaParva talks about Drau's childhood? Is that correct, O Learned People of India Forum?😆 I am learning to talk like a Dwapar Yug vaasi
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The myth that Draupadi was born of Agni as a grown-up is contradicted by many references in the Mahabharata where Draupadi is said to have a normal childhood.
In Vana-Parva, Draupadi tells about herself that she and her brothers had a natural childhood - and this is conclusive proof from Mahabharata-Text that Draupadi had a normal birth and childhood -
"My father formerly kept a learned Brahmana with him. O bull of the Bharata race, he said all this unto my father. Indeed, these instructions as to duty, uttered by Vrihaspati himself, were first taught to my brothers. It was from them that I heard these afterwards while in my father's house. And, O Yudhishthira, while at intervals of business, I went out (of the inner apartments) and sat on the lap of my father, that learned Brahmana used to recite unto me these truths, sweetly consoling me therewith!"
03,033.055a evam samsthitika siddhir iyam lokasya bharata
03,033.055c citra siddhigatih prokta kalavasthavibhagatah
03,033.056a Brahmanam me pita puurvam vasayam asa pan?itam
03,033.056c so 'sma artham imam praha pitre me bharatarshabha
03,033.057a niitim brhaspatiproktam bhrat?n me 'grahayat pura
03,033.057c tesham samkathyam ashrausham aham etat tada grhe
03,033.058a sa mam rajan karmavatiim agatam aha santvayan
03,033.058c shushruushamanam asiinam pitur anke yudhishthira
If Draupadi could sit on her father's lap (pitur anke), she, certainly, could not have been born a grown-up!
Once, when Krishna refers to Draupadi-putras as child, he says:
"Your father and your uterine brothers proffer them a kingdom and territories; but the boys find no joy in the house of Drupada, or in that of their maternal uncles.
03,180.024a rajyena rashtraish ca nimantryamanah; pitra ca krshne tava sodaraish ca
03,180.024c na Yajnasenasya na matulanam; grheshu bala ratim apnuvanti
The word sodar' suggests same womb. Vyasa could not have used that word (and that too in none other than Krishna's voice!) had Draupadi been born otherwise.
Krishna's words clearly indicate that Draupadi had a normal birth in mother's womb, and all her brothers were born normally too in the same womb - including Dhristadyumna
Edited by thearcher - 11 years ago
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