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Originally posted by: .Vrish.

I pretty much disagree w/ the above assertion - that there would have been no polyandry w/ Karna in the mix.

I think it's an open question whether YNS disclosed to Kunti everything that had gone on, given that they had left Bhima and Arjun in a fight w/ Shalya & Karna. The outcome of that fight was not known to them, so had they disclosed that, Kunti may have worried. So they may well have decided to keep all disclosures for after the return of BAD (great acronym for THIS trio 😆

I do think that Kunti uttered those words innocently - and you know where I stand as far as Kunti fandom goes. Nowhere in the texts is there any mention of 'the eldest has to marry first' - that was already disproven when Kunti accepted Hidimbi's marriage w/ Bhima. So Kunti would have had no problem w/ Arjun alone marrying Draupadi. Yudisthir could still have accepted their son as his yuvraj down the road, if that was what was needed to cement an alliance w/ Panchala. Drupada would certainly have preferred it to Draupadi being married to all 5. Or even if a polyandrous marriage was necessary, Draupadi could have married just Yudisthir & Arjun.

Besides, later in the years, when Arjun married Subhadra, it was widely thought that Abhimanyu would be the long term successor to Yudisthir, and not Prativindya. Some accounts have it that Prativindya was governing an area subordinate to Panchala, rather than any area loyal to Yudisthir. I also think that Kunti would have had no problem changing her order to hand Draupadi over to Yudisthir alone, had it been thought that he has to have her hand so that Draupadi could be the empress, as opposed to just one of the queens of the Pandavas.

So I think even if Karna had been w/ the Pandavas and come back and said, 'Mom, see what we've gotten back w/ us', Kunti would still have said, 'Whatever it is, just split it b/w the 6 of you'.

Exit question: Given that Kunti usually gave Bhima half the food and the others 10%, do you think that had she thought it was food, she'd have asked them to give Bhima half the rights to Draupadi, and the remaining 4 or 5 the balance? 😆

Originally posted by: amritat

Did they also not add 'Jo banegi Kurukshetri ki asli waja'?

'Draupadi Ki haath Duryodhan Ka maha apmaan jo banegi Kurukshetra ki asli waja'!!

Originally posted by: MBcrazyfan

Is ther any1 still watching dis... Draupadi saved by karna n apologizing for her statement in sw...what..which...is dis still based on vyas mb😡

Originally posted by: ramya06

I don't think so. Maybe, i could have missed that part.🤔