Why was Draupadi pushed into Polyandry?
* After winning the hand of Draupadi, the Pandavas get back to their hermitage to show the newly married couple to Kunti.
* Arjuna just says to Kunti "Ma, see what I have won".
* Kunti being in the middle of a pooja and without looking at Draupadi, she says " Good, all 5 of you share whatever you have won equally!! ".
* Dharma will be shocked but that was a time when parent's words were considered as 'veda vaaku'. So he decides to share his wife with his brothers"
* Hence the story!
This is what I knew! Before
However
when we see this Incident from a Hystorical lens things look a bit realistic
Ater winning draupadi's Hand :
follows a strange turn of events for whatever reason ,at kuntis insistence ,the five pandava brothers married draupadi as their common wife.
Polyandry was not unknown but looked down upon ,but kuntis own experience probably made her feel that there were greater security in it for draupadi.she may also have felt that anyone married to a woman of such extra ordinary beauty as draupadi was bound to arouse jealousy among brothers .during their years of exile ,kunti and her husband had lived in the himalayan regions were the practice of ployandry -brothers marrying a common wife was common .it is still prevelant in some remote Himalayan areas like ladakh and parts of tibet .
it is probably a measure of extreme insecurity of pandava's position that they should have done so ...
watch out this space for more controversies/facts/wat was exaggerated/
Mahabarath a Myth or history ???
5 comments:
Mahabarath : A Myth or History ?
The title in its self is soooo alluring.
the information provided is gud bro.
Expecting to see a lot of facts like this.
:). Gud one bro...
That is some great tought u have put in and revieved our history... Well u have also made us think a lot about it....:-)
If you ask me its a myth, but I don't want to change this piece of article in to debate room, because there are lot of people who still think its history. But to be fair whatever has been written is just a depiction of our life style and culture which existed in those period or may be even before that. There can be multiple angles to the issue that you put into the blog, but yes mama as you said the culture do exist in northern parts of our country. There have been lot of documentaries on the issue on various channels relating the same knot. Also one more thing our writers always glorify somethings to cover up a mistake, its just their point of view, but I am really proud that you took such a controversial topic and have dealt with it in such a careful manner. I am not sure what I would have done to this topic, but certainly it would never be as clear and as clever as you have penned it. Analum paaren be it polyandry or polygamy ponnukku choice irukkea madhiri theriyala, apdiye choose pannalum adha asingamnu solluvanunga. Great job mama, expecting a lot more chellam, my chellam always rocks
Hi Bro,
The truth is that in her previous life draupadi was a devotee of lord shiva and she asked for a boon that her husband in next life should be the most powerful, most beautiful, most humble, most charamatic and brave and leader of dharma.
Lord shiva blessed her with the boon.
However, in her next life there was no one with all these qualities.
most powerful was BHIM,
most beautiful was NAKUL,
most humble was SEHDEV,
most charamatic and brave was ARJUN, and
leader of dharma was YUDHISTAR.
So the boon of lord shiva has to be true and this formed the base for getting her finally married to 5 brothers.
good work senthi....history is not my scoop for comments..it brings in lot controversies..i would like, u continue ur style of topics..so wil wait for ur nxt one...u bring in life to very small things of our day to day to aspects..tht stream of urs i like it a lot:)
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