Well honestly speaking the CVS have shown anusuya this mahan for the show, Bcz there is no clues in history about this.
Every woman or saying every wife was like kadika, who had no influence on her husband and children. And in the show the queens are at least facing society, as much as I have known they were not allowed to speak such freely to anyone, even they used to meet the members of royal society and court by remaining behind curtains.
The sole reason was that it was male dominating society where men were no less than god for women. The society was highly male superior where wives used to do sati and jauhar, so women conducting multiple marriages was a long gone story for them.
Even when Philip came to know Cleopatra was going to give birth to daughter, he was ready to accept Alexander, so we conclude the situation .
During the era of Vijayanagar and mainly moguls, we can see this system demolishing a bit, as we can see Jahangir's wife had two marriage and had more influence on the kingdom and court than him.
Cleopatra ,razia sultana ruled as strongest rulers .
Well talking about draupadi due to her daredevil personality which is that of anusuya, made her a legend and example .
Well the main cause was the thought, Bcz sita never objected ram whether it was agnipariksha or when he abandoned her.
So the women and both society had that mindset that women were only confined to house work. So we can say...