The BJP has demanded an unconditional apology from Congress chief Rahul Gandhi after a cartoon put up by his party in Telangana used 'Draupadi's Vastraharan' from Mahabharata as an analogy during.
Incorrect @sv I am told there are some dharmas a kshatriya has to observe.Among them,not turning down invitation to swayamvara, hunting&game of dice. More importantly,he was instructed by Krishna (after Rajasuya) that in order to expiate the sin of bloodshed during rajasuya (sisupala was killed.Since yudhishtara was the yajamana of the yaga,the sin goes to him even if he himself didn't kill), he treat everyone as he treats krishna,react to everyone as he reacts to krishna,offer as if offering to krishna & not deny just as he would not deny krishna.
So he accepted the invite to dice. – user1195 Jul 1 '17 at 3:17.
It's hardly a opinion based question, as critical editions removes Draupadi's disrobing events considering it to be a later addition. Take a look at the two conversation's below from KMG: Yudhistir admits that he tried to snatch the kingdom from Duryodhana: Yudhisthira to Bhima-'I sought to cast the dice desiring to snatch from Dhritarashtra's son hiskingdom with the sovereignty. It was therefore that, that cunning gambler-Suvala's son-played against me on behalf of Suyodhana. Sakuni, a native of the hilly country, is exceedinglyartful. Casting the dice in the presence of the assembly, unacquainted as I am with artifices of any kind, he vanquished me artfully.' Here Yudhisthira himself accepted that Sakuni defeated him artfully in dice. Yudhisthira called Sakuni artful (skilled) in dice.
He also accepted that he was unacquainted with the artifices unskilled in dice and that's why he was defeated vanquished. View of Balarama about Yudhistir: 'Yudhishthira, though not skilled in dice and though dissuaded by all his friends, challenged the son of the king of Gandhara, an adept at dice, to the match. There were then at that place thousands of dice-players whom Yudhishthira could defeat in a match. Taking however, no notice of any of them, he challenged Suvala's son of all men to the game, and so he lost. And although the dice constantly went against him, he would still have Sakuni alone for his opponent.
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Competing with Sakuni in the play, he sustained a crushing defeat. For this, no blame can attach to Sakuni' So even the characters from Mahabharata couldn't decide correctly about who's wrong in case of the dice game.
But as per the deal Kauravas should have given Pandavas their land, when they decided no to, we can say Kauravas were at fault. Even if we consider Yudhistira was at fault for the dice game they paid for it in the 13-year exile, also we should remember war didn't occur for Draupadi, it broke loose only when Duryodhana refused to offer 5 villages to Pandavas, so the dice game incident doesn't change the outcome. After reading above comments and answer just my opinion is, i don't think only Kauravas were responsible for draupadi’s fate,i think all the people who was presented in raj sabha are equally responsible. Because, Wasn’t it the mistake of Yudhishtir to bet Draupadi, his wife in the very first place? Well, if Yudhishtir considers Draupadi as an object and bets her in a game of dice, then Duryodhan being the winner of the game as well as the object don’t you think so had every right to do anything to the winning thing? Bhishma Pitama, Vidur and Guru Drona crying and almost begging in front of Duryodhan for leaving Draupadi alone. I still don’t understand Why they did not request Yudhishtir to stop the game when the question of betting Draupadi was raised in a game of dice?
Duryodhan was a adharmi so obvious he didn’t listen to them but Yudhishtir for them was a dharmi. Don’t you think they should have asked Yudhishtir to stop his nonsense of betting people in the game of dice? First of all, whatever opinion we will give here that will be based on today's mentality/culture/thinking instead of Dwapar yuga's. Time changed a lot now, so our thoughts towards various incidents also changed.
We sees world with different views than people used to see in Dwapar yuga. If you think any incident is wrong then it's just your thinking (based on today's teachings/observation) But people of Dwapar yuga might see same incident with different point of view than us. So our opinion will be kaliyuga's opinion which can't judge properly every deeds of Dwapar yuga because we don't know how they use to see world that time. Now lets come to the question Although I am not going to give my personal opinion (already told u why) BUT you should have known one thing that Yudhishtir was Dharmaraaj.
He had full knowledge of Dharma. He knew the brief difference between good and bad.
In his lifespan no sin has done by his hand and proof of this can be seen in a story where Pandwas try to go heaven with their body But only Yudhishtir was able to reach heaven with his body, only because of one reason that he was sinless. More brief story I have read earlier in this site also but don't remember what was that post (where pandwas try to go heaven) else I wanted to attach link of that post but couldn't find it here right now (I will update when I will find it). Yudhishtir did only one sin (which was necessary that time) in his life which was at Mahabharat war when he try to show fake death of Ashwathama to Draunacharya.
And He got punishment for his that sin in Narka in form of maya (Illusion). No other sin has done by Yudhishtir, Hence it's proved that Draupadi's vastraharan's culprit was not Yudhishtir. Mahabharat story Itself gives the answer of that at the end.
The most disturbing incident in the entire Mahabharata was the ‘Vastraharan’ of Draupadi. It was a completely insane and disgraceful act done on the part of Kauravas. Defaming a woman and insulting her physically is the greatest crime ever. Draupadi was the daughter of Drupad – the king of Panchala, and the wife and queen of the five Pandavas.
She was an ardent devotee and friend of. Due to the clashes of land and kingdom between the Pandavas and the Kauravas, Draupadi was the major sufferer. In the timeless epic Mahabharata, once the Kauravas and Pandavas sat for a game of dice.
This game became so heated that they started betting for many costly and valuable possessions. At the end, Yudhistra lost the game and had to sacrifice his wife as well. On Duryodhan’s order’s Dushansana dragged Draupadi by her hair to the court full of men. Draupadi was taken aback by seeing these so called men of values standing with their heads down and doing nothing about this disgraceful act.
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She approached elders and great figures of Mahabharata like Bhisma, Drona, Kripa but all went in vague. Do you know what reply she got from Bhisma? He sadly said, “My daughter, Dharma works in very subtle ways. It is difficult for us to analyze wrong and right.” Draupadi had to take the matter into her own hands now. She didn’t beg for mercy, rather argued that the demand made was not valid.
She said, “Yuddhistra being a slave to the Kauravas now has lost all his rights over his wife and can not gamble her afterward”. This changed nothing but only one man stood in her support.
For spiritual and religious videos to our channel. It was VIKARNA – one of the 100 Kauravas. He stood for her and said, “Insulting your sister in law is an offense for the entire Kuru clan. Her respect and chastity are our families pride and what are we doing? This is an extremely disgraceful act on our part. God will never forgive us for it.” He fought for her through words but unfortunately was turned down by the crooked people present. He was rather asked to leave the court by his elder brother and Karna.
Don’t you think its the same even today? Still, such disgusting things happen and the wise men and women are still as impotent and dumbstruck. Their reactions are exactly as it was thousands of years ago – turning a deaf ear and a blind eye. No, nothing has changed! Maybe another Mahabharata is waiting which will again destroy all these cruel as well as silent ones.
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