What If Panchali Was ONLY Arjuna's Wife?

And IF (this is a big IF) Arjuna had indeed accepted the dice game invitation, IF (highly improbable, but IF he did, again, a big IF) he had actually staked her, and IF the Draupadi vastraharan had indeed happened despite Arjuna being Panchali's ONLY hubby, then you can be rest assured that Bhima would've actually burnt Arjuna's hands for staking her, and he would've certainly disowned Arjuna over the fact that Panchali could not be protected.

Part in bold - What about Draupadi's connection to Krishna (sakhi-sakha)? According to you, wouldn't THAT matter to Arjuna at all?

I mean, this is Parth we're talking about...he would NEVER do anything to hurt his Madhav. And if Arjuna did something deplorable on his own accord that Panchali would get humiliated so badly - he would automatically incur Madhav's wrath in the worst possible manner.

And I believe that if Yudi had staked and lost Drau BEFORE everybody else, Arjuna would've done EVERYTHING possible to PREVENT the vastraharan from taking place - and I believe he would've been successful in saving Panchali's honour as well.

Now would they have invited Arjun for the dice name? Probably not. What do they gain by inviting Arjun for the dice game? He does not have a kingdom to offer. They would have invited only Yudhistir, the emperor, for the dice game.

For whatever reason, If they had invited Arjuna for the dice game, I think he would still have accepted it based on Kshatriya dharma (to the best of my knowledge, a Kshatriya cannot back off from this situation) But he probably would not have staked Panchali. In any case, Panchali just being Arjun's wife is not that interesting for the other side. Even if he had staked Panchali, they do not gain anything by dragging her to the court etc.. The other brothers being free would have started a war, but again complete destruction would not have been possible just by insulting Arjun's wife.

Everything in Mahabharat was destined to happen.

Draupadi was staked only because she was the Queen of Indraprastha and the pride of the Pandavas. Her disrobing was meant to humiliate the Pandavas, but if she'd have been only Arjuna's wife, she wouldn't have been an important character to the epic or the Kauravas.