what is 'kanyawaas'? - Page 2

Originally posted by: snehalS

what is 'kanywaas' referred by Dushala when she tells that Subhadra studies with her at "Kanyawaas"...what exactly is this "kanyawaas" ..

Originally posted by: varaali

It is BAK...WAAAS...

Kanyavaas literally means a women's chambers/ inner appartments where women lived. The more common name was antahapur.

As others have pointed out- women - especially royal princesses got all the requisite education within the palace itself. There was no way young nubile women - especially those belonging to the royal family would be sent to an outside place.

Draupadi herself remarks- during her humiliation- no men (other than immediate family members) had ever got to see her face except during her swayamvara. This shows that women of the royal family rarely left the palace confines except under strict protection

Dushala meeting Subhadra is the height of CVs imagination. And it is pretty juvinile imagination.

First of all the ages don't match. By the time Subhadra entered her teens, Dushala would have been married to Jayadrath and settled in Sindh- and probably given birth to Suratha.

Secondly- geographically there was no way both of them could have met. Subhadra spent her infancy in Mathura and grew up in Dwaraka till she eloped with Arjuna. If at all she would have met Dushala after her wedding with Arjuna- not before that.

Precisely the point - even if Subhadra's & Dushala's ages were similar, which they weren't, Subhadra never came to Hastinapur until after the war, when the Kauravas were obliterated, and Duhsala never came to Indraprastha - she was probably married before even Draupadi was. As a result, there would never have been an occasion for the 2 of them to ever meet.

Dushala was much older than Subhadra

Originally posted by: koolsadhu1000

Dushala was much older than Subhadra

it is clearly mentioned that the Age difference between Subhadra and the brothers Balaram Krishna was quite a lot as she was born later .