Originally posted by: HearMeRoar
Panchali is NEVER called Sachi or Indrani by Vyasa in MBh or Harivamsa or Bhagavatham. That scene I posted would've been the perfect place to call her Indrani if so since 5 Indras are mentioned. She is called 2 goddess names. Shri, twice. Sarasvati once, but that wasn't as an avatar, but as likening her and 5 Pandavas to Sarasvati with her 5 elephants.
I think part of the reason she was called Shri was Krishna's obvious affection for her.
One of the theories I'm juggling is this: much like Vyasa, Narada, and Indra were titles, I've heard a couple of people say Vishnu was a title conferred on someone who was Narayana. ie, sleeping man (metaphorically) awakened to action in times of crisis. I remember reading an Indrajit Bandhopadhyay article which said Panchali was Vyasa's intended Narayana much like Mohini was at one point. I vaguely remember hearing Amish Tripathi saying something similar. Later interpolations gave the title to Krishna.
One of the reasons I think it's plausible is her name. Panchali is called KrishnA more times in MBh than Krishna-Govinda is called krishna. It was her birth name while it was merely descriptor for Krishna VAsudeva. Since MBh was an oral tradition for centuries, how easy would it have been to take KrishnA's doings and assign them to Krishna? For ex, take the Ranchod episode. Does anything in Krishna-Govinda's pattern suggest to you he shied away from a fight? Kalyavan killing is actually a very female way of killing - behind the scenes and minimal casualties.
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Anyway, I got involved in this discussion only because the posts in the thread were getting a bit nonsensical (not yours). I mean... to dismiss Krishna's clear affection for Panchali in Vyasa's text takes a great deal of willful blindness.
I'm tempted to ask why? She was an awesome woman, someone who should be considered a role model for the girls of today's India. Does it really matter who liked her and who she liked? As Panchali herself said, she had a duty, and she was prepared to carry it out whether or not the Pandavas stayed with her, whether or not Krishna stayed with her.
She is called Avatar of Sachi here
The faultless Draupadi, slender-waisted like the wasp, was born of a portion of Sachi (the queen of the celestials), in the line of Drupada.
https://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/m01/m01068.htm
The reason for my confusion is because Celestial is mentioned in both places describing Sachi and Celestial Sri
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Thats fascinating, They did give Draupadi's line to Krishna in SP Mahabharata, I won't put it past people who tried to malign her taking away her credit
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