Upapandavas Reaction - Page 2

U guys might need to read this article...

It describes how did they feel!

The Rebels: Next Generation Pandavas

When Pandavas and Draupadi went to forest, Subhadra went to Dwaraka with Upa Pandavas and Abhimanyu. She took care of all the children equally. Krishna's eldest son Pradyumn (mother is Rukmini) had taught them archery. When Sri Krishna along with Satyabhama came to met Pandavas in forest, he cheered Draupadi about her children, that her sons were also good at learning dhanurvidya. She felt happy for this.

Originally posted by: imyselfkrishnaa

the birth order is not like that...
prathvindya, satanika, sutsoma, sruthusena n last suthukarman
n they are callled upapandavas coz they were all born to the queen draupathi...
also prathuvindya was the crown prince...
n yes they do show expertise as their fathers in all ways!!!
they were similar in looks n physique too..
ths y aswathama mistook them for pandavas n killed them while sleeping

the question is not abt who born n y...
its abt how they all felt or reacted to their mother's disgrace !!!!!

Originally posted by: .Vrish.

Your assertions have no basis if one goes by Vyasa's work - that's why I asked. It's also the first time I read anything like it, hence my comments above. Unless one reads something to the contrary, it's logical to think that YBANS all had sons from Draupadi in that sequence.

Your answer about why they are called Upapandavas is a non sequitur: my question was why were Draupadi's step-sons not called Upapandavas? On the succession, I think that Yudisthir may have determined that Abhimanyu should be his successor, to cement his alliance w/ Krishna.

About your needlessly bloated question - how would they have reacted to their mother's humiliation, let's work out their ages at the time. Abhimanyu was 3 years old at the time (if he was 16 when he died 13 years later), so Prativindya & Satsoma would have been 7 & 5, while Shrutakirti/Shrutakarman, Satanika & Srutasena would have been 4, 2 & 1 year old. So while Prativindya may have felt humiliated, the others would have had no sense of it. Later, while growing up, their uncles would have told them what happened to their fathers and Draupadi, and that would have fired them up for revenge.

dear abhimanyu was not the eldest!!!!
but the first one to marry was him...!!!
y others not called upapandavas i dnt knw...
abhimanyu was 3 yrs dirung the game of dice.. n arjun's son (with drau ) will be of the same or younger... he is the youngest of all upapandavas...
all others older to him...
tht's y i said 3 of them were in their teen age..
ny wys...

Originally posted by: .Vrish.

Your assertions have no basis if one goes by Vyasa's work - that's why I asked. It's also the first time I read anything like it, hence my comments above. Unless one reads something to the contrary, it's logical to think that YBANS all had sons from Draupadi in that sequence.

Your answer about why they are called Upapandavas is a non sequitur: my question was why were Draupadi's step-sons not called Upapandavas? On the succession, I think that Yudisthir may have determined that Abhimanyu should be his successor, to cement his alliance w/ Krishna.

About your needlessly bloated question - how would they have reacted to their mother's humiliation, let's work out their ages at the time. Abhimanyu was 3 years old at the time (if he was 16 when he died 13 years later), so Prativindya & Satsoma would have been 7 & 5, while Shrutakirti/Shrutakarman, Satanika & Srutasena would have been 4, 2 & 1 year old. So while Prativindya may have felt humiliated, the others would have had no sense of it. Later, while growing up, their uncles would have told them what happened to their fathers and Draupadi, and that would have fired them up for revenge.

i didn't want the discussion to be based on who n wat they were... i tried to bring it back to ur views on how they would have reacted.. like whether they have questioned their fathers... or so,,,,

Their uncles - Dhrishtadyumna, Krishna, Dhrishtaketu, Sahadev of Magadha, et al wouldn't have narrated it as putting the blame on their fathers. They would have operated w/ that era's mindset, not today's.

Originally posted by: .Vrish.

Their uncles - Dhrishtadyumna, Krishna, Dhrishtaketu, Sahadev of Magadha, et al wouldn't have narrated it as putting the blame on their fathers. They would have operated w/ that era's mindset, not today's.

yeah.. tht's a possibility...!!! 👏 👏 👏 👏

thank u very much for sharing this information. I actually knew nothing about upapandavas except their name and their tragic death.