**Pandav Maharani Draupadi - Pooja Sharma's AT**#8

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Pooja Sharma

Delhi girl Pooja Sharma moved to Mumbai a few years ago to pursue her acting dream.Model-turned actor Pooja Sharma has been chosen to play the character ofDraupadi n the most popular mythological serial Mahabharat on Star Plus.This isPooja's television debut as lead.Before this she has done an episode of Teri MeriLove Stories on Star Plus. The episode date was 16th September 2012.

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Draupadi

There are few women in Hindu mythology who were aggressive and who spoke their mind in a world of men. Draupadi was one of them. She is considered by many as the first feminist of Indian mythology. At the time of her birth, a celestial voice had proclaimed: "This unparalleled beauty has taken birth to uproot theKauravas and establish the rule of religion". The circumstances leading to her birth began to take shape while her father was yet young.

From the second offering in the yagya performd by Drupad a full-grown daughter emerged, whose dazzle blinded the eye. She was Draupadi. WhenDraupadi emerged from the fire there was an oracle that she would side with God against the evil Kauravas.

She was born omniscient (Sarvagna, All Knowing), adorned with all the ornaments, youthful, she does not have old age and she is the most beautiful woman in the three worlds. She had the special presence of Uma in her. She possessed all the auspicious physical features.

In Mahabharatha it is mentioned in couple of places that Draupadi is the incarnation of Parvati. Its implication is explained here by using the word "umAMshayuktaa nitaraaM". Meaning though she had the presence of Shaci, Shyamala, Usha, one of the chapters in LakshaaLaMkara explains that presence of Parvathi was greater than the other three:

Draupadi of the Mahabharata In Hindu mythology, few women stand out as much as the character of Draupadi. Draupadi is the wife of the five Pandava princes in the Hindu epic the Mahabharata; she is a heroine who is unpredictable, unwavering and who could also possess the austerity of a traditional Hindu wife. Many see Draupadi as an early feminist because of her fearlessness in admonishing those who harmed her or her family. Draupadi existed in a time when a woman's role was to serve herhusband.

The unique relationship between Draupadi and her husbands is what makes her story so exceptional. Draupadi, the wife of the mighty Pandava brothers was anything but a conventional wife; she was smart, bold and would often lead her husbands into action. Draupadi's fearlessness and uncompromising nature makes her of great importance in the history of mythological women and of women today.

Draupadi, meaning daughter of Drupad, was known by several other names as well. As the princess of the kingdom of Panchal she was known as Panchali. As the grand daughter of Prushata she was known as Parsati. ( Draupadi is ayonija, not born of woman). Draupadi is born of fire and therefore, often referred to as Yagnyaseni. She is also called Krishnaa because she was copper skinned, fiery eyed and had long, black hair. She was gifted with blue-lotus fragrance wafting for a full kosha (2 miles) and hence was called Yojanagandha (she whose fragrance can be felt for miles). Draupadi alone enjoys the unique relationship of sakhi with her sakha Krishna. She was a true virgin, and has a mind of her very own.

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Pooja Sharma as Panchaali Video Tribute by Shyam
Part 1
http://www.veoh.com/watch/v701881056ckJGTE4
Part 2
http://www.veoh.com/watch/v71317759nBtmYaMF
Part 3
http://www.veoh.com/watch/v71360967FNHaZWx3

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appy, debashree - tag & siggysPrithviSanyo1 for helping with the write up

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More citations on our heroine:

INIMITABLE FIRST LADY Even in that exalted group of five, Draupadi has but one of comparable stature, Sita being her only credible competitor for excellence. Irawati Karve draws a few significant parallels between the two illustrious queens. 4.2 Both had preternatural births; both chose their ideal consorts after they proved their prowess in a Svayamvara test; and both accompanied their husbands into exile in the forest. But Draupadi surely had more facets to her remarkable personality than the heroine of the Ramayana. Let us review some of those matchless qualities of Draupadi, the miracle-engendered princess of Pancala, marriage with whom provided the Pandavas with the necessary politico-military muscle to face their Kuru rivals. Rajshekhar Basu provides a fine human sketch of Draupadi. 4.3 Arguably, no other woman in ancient Indian literature can match the qualities that animate her character. Her personal beauty is beyond comparison, and is only enhanced by her dark complexion, perhaps signifying a fire-related characteristic associated with her sacrificial origin. Her ravishing appearance in the svayamvara hall cast a powerful spell on all the suitors. All the five Pandava brothers felt drawn by her enamouring magnetism, and their shared matrimony could well have been an expedient modus vivendi to prevent any fissure in fraternal unity, as was the arrangement for her cohabitation with each brother by seasonal turn. 4.4 Interestingly, the rotational arrangement also helped in fixing the paternal identity of Draupadi's five sons (the Upa-pandavas), which otherwise could have been difficult in such a muddlingly polyandrous situation (without the modern recourse to DNA tests). Notwithstanding the discipline of such a wife-sharing arrangement by five virile husbands, it certainly would have proved too much for most women. 4.5 Draupadi, however, discharged her demanding marital role with remarkable success, so much so that Krshna's wife, Satyabhama, keen to establish her own dominance over other co-wives, once asked her (during the Vana-parva), if she used some occult rituals or potions to control her five husbands. Draupadi's advice to her could well serve as a model code of conduct for all righteously inclined wives of all ages.

There seems to have been an age-defying quality about Draupadi's beauty. Near the fag end of the 12 years in the forest, one look at her caused Jayadratha, the Sindhu king, to lose his head. She was then almost past her youth, yet Jayadratha, considerably younger, was driven by lust to kidnap her, exclaiming in impassioned wonder: I need marry none else if this woman becomes mine; after seeing her, all other women seem to be simians in comparison'. There is a striking cross-cultural parallel between her age-defying sex appeal (she was a veritable Agni-kanya or scorcher' in today's parlance), and her hypnotic effect on even younger men, and the cynic Enobarbus' description of Cleopatra in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra: Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale /her infinite variety. Other women cloy / the appetites they feed. But she makes hungry /where she most satisfies.

Basu, Abhijit (2014-01-30). Marvels and Mysteries of the Mahabharata (Kindle Locations 1558-1562). Leadstart Publishing Pvt Ltd. Kindle Edition.