To all those who are arguing with the troll

Originally posted by: Chakka_Arjun

Stop stop stop

no no no

Arjun was just great, What if he burn woman in varnavrat. low cast people deserve to die dont forget arjun hold dharma and woman dont have dharma tag so he can burn woman. Its actually failure of woman she failed to counter fire of arjun

Rape of subhadra was common act you cant say that its crime. Rape -kidnapping is indeed common when you hold dharma. Why didnt subhadra run away when arjun rape her? Its not fault of arjun at all if subhadra cant save her dignity

murder of ashwasena mother, huh. she was old and after few years she would be dead. nothing wrong in killing that mother. Infact she should say that to arjun for moksha.

Sharing wife was not crime. never. I can share my wife if my brother lusted for her. Afterall brother is important for me

Now what if he sold her wife at dice. Its kauravas fault why they played to win stake? They should return his wife whenever pandav lost

Regarding order to come at assembly exposing navel. It was fashion show and pandav wanted to show beauty of wife and her navel to all.

Keechak can kick draupadi what should arjun stop him? draupadi was just actress and its dury of wife to sleep with enemy if husbands need protection

See I have justify all crimes as per ved vyass. Arjun was woman protector greatest human

Originally posted by: pd_am

Sadly I would have to agree with @Mahanalayak aka Priyamvada. Since we are discussing a scholarly topic like Mahabharata, proficiency in language is important.

This person - or persons - cannot even type a long comment in correct English. He had to post and re-post his reply to me. And even the final draft was riddled with grammatical errors.

If this is the level of language skills, I have doubt how much he understood K.M. Ganguly's translation which is in 19th Century Victorian English.

@SweetRogue - Coming to "Rape of Subhadra", the Sanskrit itself says "SubhadraHaran". And the archaic meaning of Rape is Abduction bcoz, "Rape" comes from latin word "rapere" which originally means abduction. This meaning matches with Sanskrit SubhadraHaran.

But then, given the language proficiency, what to say!!! Reminds me of Shashi Tharoor's "cattle class" controversy.

Originally posted by: SweetRogue

Yeah I had read somewhere that the original meaning of rape was abduction. But the guy is using it in a modern context. Arjuna for all his faults wasn't a rapist and Krishna would never support let alone love a rapist the way he loved Arjuna.