Comment to Sita11:
I like the Ramayan too, as it is a very divine and beautiful story, but I EQUALLY like the Mahabharat. No offense to you or anything, but it was very rude of you to speak against Draupadi having five husbands. Just as Sita Devi is an incarnation of Goddess Lakshmi, Draupadi is also an incarnation of Goddess Lakshmi, and the Five Pandavas are all amsas of Lord Vishnu, although Sri Krishna was the actual incarnation. If you ever read Saint Vyasadeva's Mahabharata, you will know that. Also, one should NEVER speak against anything done in a purana.
There is also another reason for Draupadi's having five husbands, other than the divine word of Devi Kunti. Did you know that in her past life, Draupadi was the daughter of a sage, who meditated and prayed to Lord Shiva for many many years to have a worthy husband? When Lord Shiva appeared to her, the young girl became nervous at beholding his sight and stammered FIVE times, "I want a worthy husband...I want a worthy husband..." and so one.
Lord Shiva smiled and told the young brahmin girl, "You will be the wife of five worthy and virtuous men in your next life, since you have asked five times."
When the young girl trembled at the thought of five husbands and asked Lord Shiva to take back his boon and to forgive her for her nervousness, he said, "Don't worry, as sin won't be able to touch you. In your next life, you will be labelled as one of the most virtuous and chaste wifes in history.
If you have no regard for Kunti Devi's words, then at least think that when a God such as Lord Shiva told Draupadi she would have five husbands, how could it be disgusting? How could it be a sin?
Also, why in the WORLD would Shri Krishna stop Draupadi from marrying the Five Pandavas? Marrying them would fulfull the sons' Dharma, and that is to follow a mother's command. Kunti Devi did not know the "biksha" they brought was Draupadi, so nothing can be said against her. To follow one's parents' orders is said to be the pathway to moksha, so neither the Pandavas, or Draupadi, or Kunti did ANYTHING wrong. If it was a divine plan for Draupadi to marry five men, then no one can stop it. And it CERTAINLY is not disgusting, as you say, for Draupadi to marry the Pandavas. But then again, I am not saying that today, it is right to marry more than one man, just because Draupadi did. She was an incarnation of a goddess. We are not. So who are we to think we can do what the people in puranas did?
I love both the Ramayan and Mahabharat completely equally, because God is one, and both Rama and Krishna are one. Both were born in different yugas, when times were different, so obviously the stories would be different. I think, no, I know, that both stories were interesting. One is not greater than the other, because both teach valuable lessons and morals. I understand that when serials are taken, some may seem more interesting than the other. That is understandable, as it has to do with the directors' ability to take the serial, but that most definitely does NOT mean the stories are less interesting than the other. Both Sita and Draupadi were equally virtuous, and NOTHING can be said against them, as they were divine people, so we have no right to comment on what happend in puranas.
I hope this review didn't hurt you. It was not meant to. But when you wrote so meanly about Draupadi, I felt it was my duty to stand up for her. Thank you...
