Why didn't Krishna participate in Draupadi swayamvar? - Page 2

Originally posted by: NoraSM

So, he was the best of his time this confirms that he decided not to participate

I don't think he could see into the future to know pandavas will participate so maybe Draupadi and he didn't wish for their relationship to turn into a carnal one, moreover draupadi did great work as an empress here she would have been one of his thousands of wife

Vyasa had already done that part by asking pandavas to go on participate in drapaudi Swamyvaar. Ofcourse krishna and even panchal people knew about this.

Originally posted by: Poorabhforever

Vyasa had already done that part by asking pandavas to go on participate in drapaudi Swamyvaar. Ofcourse krishna and even panchal people knew about this.

Is there mention of Vyasa telling Krushna and Drupad about it?

I made a whole list of his archery mentions but it got deleted. I'll come back with it later. 😭

Originally posted by: NoraSM

Is there mention of Vyasa telling Krushna and Drupad about it?

Vyasa doesn't need to. I am sure they had some network in place to monitor such movement of eachother or of others

Originally posted by: proteeti

I made a whole list of his archery mentions but it got deleted. I'll come back with it later. 😭

Please make a thread and post it with details and link, I want to read 😋😋

^^Was doing that only! 😆

Originally posted by: Poorabhforever

Vyasa doesn't need to. I am sure they had some network in place to monitor such movement of eachother or of others

Then, how do we know that Krishna and Drupad knew pandavas are attending the Swayamvar?

Pandavas were already in panchal for Draupadi's swayamvar before Vyasa told them

Originally posted by: NoraSM

Then, how do we know that Krishna and Drupad knew pandavas are attending the Swayamvar?

Pandavas were already in panchal for Draupadi's swayamvar before Vyasa told them

Spy network. To track vyasa moves and in turn pandavas

Divine- I think it interesting that while Rama in Ramayana was the protagonist i.e. it was his story, he who suffered, he who was exiled. Rama was THE King.

Krishna in MBH wasn't the protagonist. He was the sutradhar or pupeteer, moving his puppets here n there. Krishna was Kingmaker.

Draupadi was his instrument to Kurukshetra & ensure destruction of majority of the Kshatriyas. If he had married her, Kurukshetra wouldn't have happened.

Political - This is something which baffles me. He moved pieces politically so that the Pandavas were made the emperors of Bharatvarsh & Draupadi the empress.

Why not marry the Yadavas-Panchalas?

Why not have aspirations for a Yadava nation then?

If one can say he wanted to be linked to both major nations i.e. Kurus & Panchalas, why not have aspirations for his own clan? Why be the Kingmaker rather than King?

Human - Again he & Draupadi were already friends & got along well. Like it's mentioned in the text, Draupadi did NOT restrict the other wives of the Pandavas, so that argument can't be applied here.

I don't think she would have made any trouble for the other wives of Krishna.

Originally posted by: Eloquent

Political - This is something which baffles me. He moved pieces politically so that the Pandavas were made the emperors of Bharatvarsh & Draupadi the empress.

Why not marry the Yadavas-Panchalas?

Why not have aspirations for a Yadava nation then?

If one can say he wanted to be linked to both major nations i.e. Kurus & Panchalas, why not have aspirations for his own clan? Why be the Kingmaker rather than King?

I think in this narrative, Krishna was looking for a bypass option. Jahan he would annihilate BOTH Kurus and Panchalas (and every other potential powerful kingdom), without a scratch to his own clan, and in the end there wouldn't be a second King to challenge the Yadava claims.

And wahi hua right? Parikshit was way more Yadava than a Kaurava/Pandava.

That is why Drau ka Ps se marriage.

That is why Subhadra's abduction.

Krishna defo. had a greater plan in mind.

Also this way, you cannot in any way point a finger at him for the de facto Yadava kingdom. 😆