Originally posted by: FlauntPessimism
Polyandry has been referenced too many times in the epic and by nearly all the important characters. I don't think we could discard it so easily
Draupadi never pinned for Yudhishtir either if you see. That doesn't mean they weren't married
I have many reasons to think polyandry was a story made up by her enemies to discredit her which eventually got set in stone. So not interpolation as such but vicious gossip contemporaneous to her life which was believed to be true. It's not based on one instance or more of Panchali not giving Arjuna the time of day.
The point I was making was Panchali didn't pine, period. It was Arjuna who did.
That doesn't mean I'm an ArDi fan. I actually loathe that pair because of exactly what happened in this thread. Without even the slightest evidence, the proponents of it turn her into a whiny idiot which she was far from.