No one loves draupadi?

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Hi everyone,I am Myraa😊 new to forum. I hardly know anything about mahabharat so I decided to watch this mahabharat.but my basic question is-draupadi is supposed to be the wife of the pandavas,so why didn't they protected her?don't they love her?i mean a husband is suppose to love his wife but don't they love her?and arjuna he was attracted to draupadi,so why didn't he protected her?and if the pandavas did not loved her then why did they married her? 😕 mahabharat'a story is so wired and complicated,instead of dividing amongst his 4 brothers and himself,why didn't arjuna gave draupadi to Krishna ji.and also plz tell me whether there was any1 who loved and cared draupadi instead of Krishna ji?gosh...why does every man disliked her?initially even her father and brother disliked her?what is this and arjuna,if he can love that subhadra girl,then why the hell didn't he loved the wife he won?what is wrong with these people even that karna abused her today but I read somewhere that he liked her?so who actually loved her leaving Krishna ji?
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Posted: 11 years ago
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Originally posted by: Anmira67

Hi everyone,I am anmira 😊 new to forum. I hardly know anything about mahabharat so I decided to watch this mahabharat.but my basic question is-draupadi is supposed to be the wife of the pandavas,so why didn't they protected her?don't they love her?i mean a husband is suppose to love his wife but don't they love her?and arjuna he was attracted to draupadi,so why didn't he protected her?and if the pandavas did not loved her then why did they married her? 😕 mahabharat'a story is so wired and complicated,instead of dividing amongst his 4 brothers and himself,why didn't arjuna gave draupadi to Krishna ji.and also plz tell me whether there was any1 who loved and cared draupadi instead of Krishna ji?gosh...why does every man disliked her?initially even her father and brother disliked her?what is this and arjuna,if he can love that subhadra girl,then why the hell didn't he loved the wife he won?what is wrong with these people even that karna abused her today but I read somewhere that he liked her?so who actually loved her leaving Krishna ji?

First off - welcome to the forums.
Second - This serial isn't exactly the most reliable of sources when it comes to characterizations nor are fictional retellings (mainly targetting the "Karna liked Draupadi" part).

That being said, the Pandavas are facing a moral conflict right now. They are slaves, they have lost their wife, they can't oppose Yuddhi, ... they really have no clue what to do. Our modern day thinking probably runs along the lines of "screw it ... Bhim, Arjun, Nakul, Sahadev -- disobey your brother and attack them!!" but it was much different back then.

The Pandavas clearly loved Panchaali, but they just didn't know how to react at this particular situation. They were followers of dharma, but they were confused what exactly their dharma was.

Again to reiterate, the serial isn't exactly the most reliable of sources when it comes to characterizations. Pick up a book and actually read it for greater insight to the true characters of the Mahabharata. 😉
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Posted: 11 years ago
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Haha! Good question. You know this thing called Dharma is what makes Mahabharat complicated. The Pandavas did love Draupadi, but never enough, otherwise death would have been their way of compensating for the kind of insult she went through in that situation. They did respect her, but the other four had to keep mum because the 'brother' in them couldn't go against their oldest brother who was probably the most frustrating person that ever lived on the face of this planet!
Thankfully Ved Vyas saw the existence of a woman who was wiser and more forward beyond her age and era. Draupadi saved her own skin. Draupadi believed and saw the atrocities beyond dharma, something her 'Dharma raj' husband couldn't see and thus she had the presence of mind and enough clarity of devotion to have relied on the only person who wasn't bound by any dharma in that situation and who was smart enough to save her skin, literally!
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Posted: 11 years ago
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Mahabharata doesn't mention much about feeling called love. Its about Dharma & Adharma.
Yeah, it mentions about motherly love, brotherhood , etc. But love shared between a husband nd wife has hardly any place in it. The reason might be like in those days no matter how strong a woman was she had been neglected .
If you read history of any king or kingdom, their queens were mostly mentioned just as the one who gave them successor. It's our 21st century director / producers who sees romantic angles in these stories.

Talking about Draupadi. She had always denied all the happiness in her life. So the love has been denied.
Her husbands were attracted to her beauty, for them she was their pride but I don't think any of them ever loved her truly. She loved them, worshiped them...
If they had ever loved her, then they would have fought for her dignity. Bcoz when a person loves something or someone dearly, then he / she can go to any extent to save it.
I guess, Pandavas had this feeling like she didn't belong to one of them but she belonged to 5 of them. And the things get "OUR" status that intensity & passion dies as it is for the things we call "MINE"

Even Yudhishtir always didn't liked her preferrence forArjuna.
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Really mahabharat is so confusing,I thaught this version wud help me but this one is more complications on a complicated story.byt thnx Shyam,bunny,cherry, for replying.gosh...dharma lol what does this mean now??? 😲 but anyways,thnx.
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