Droupadie Draupadi Draupady : daughter of Drupada, king of Pāñchāla, one of the Pañcakanyāḥ (see Ahalyā). Her other names were Krūshnā (dark, like her cousin Sri Krishna), Pāñchāli (princess of Pāñchāla), Yajñaseni (born out of Drupada’s Putrakāmeshti yajña), Parshati (granddaughter of Prishata), Nītya-yuvani (eternal virgin), & Yojana-gandhā (her fragrance spread far & wide). In earlier avatars, she was born as Vedavati who cursed Rāvana & in the next as Sītā the cause of Rāvana’s death. In her perilous climb to the top of the Himalayas with the Pandavas, she falls first & Yudhishthīra the last. [S/a Pāñchāli Śapatham]
... digression to an episode in the Mahabharata. You know that Draupadi was dragged to the court of Duryodhana and threatened that her sari would be taken off. Strip-tease had not yet come into fashion and so Draupadi was quite bashful. In full view of the court Duryodhana's henchman started pulling at her sari. Draupadi did not know to whom to turn. She thought of Sri Krishna the Avatar and... out again a cry: "O Master of the three worlds, help me!" No reply still — and more and more folds of the sari came out. Once again Draupadi raised her heart's plea: "O Ruler of the four quarters of the earth, rush to my rescue!" All in vain — nothing resulted. Draupadi was really at a loss. Then she cried out in a final intensity: "O You who dwell deep in my own heart, come!" At once Sri Krishna appeared... appeared before her with his hand gesturing abhaya — "Have no fear." And you know the sequel. The sari went on unwinding endlessly. Draupadi could not be stripped at all. Later she chided Sri Krishna: "Why did you take so long to come?" Sri Krishna sweetly and coolly replied: "If I had to Page 97 come from the highest heaven or from the three worlds or even ...
... mine. Let me remind you of it. Draupadi was dragged to the court of Duryodhana and threatened that her clothing would be taken off. Strip-tease had not yet come into fashion and in any case she could never have been a striptease artist, so she was quite bashful. In full view of the court a brother of Duryodhana's started pulling at her dress. Draupadi did not know whom to turn to. She thought... the three worlds, help me!" No reply still - and more and more folds of her apparel came out. Once again Page 160 Draupadi raised her heart's plea: "O Ruler of the four quarters of the earth, rush to my rescue!" All in vain -nothing resulted. Draupadi was really at a loss. Then she cried out in a final intensity: "O You who are hiding deep in my own heart, come!" At once Sri Krishna... Krishna appeared before her subtle vision with his hand gesturing abhaya - "Have no fear." The clothing went on unwinding endlessly. Draupadi could not be stripped at all. Later she chided Sri Krishna: "Why did you take so long to come?" Sri Krishna sweetly and coolly replied: "If I had to come from the highest heaven or from the three worlds or even from the four quarters of the earth, wouldn't ...
... nding his present plight, to get back to his own. But Yudhishtira is still scalded by the memory of the outrage on his wife Draupadi, following the disastrous game of dice. He therefore asks Markhandeya whether he has seen or heard of Draupadi's peer, in her chastity and strength. In reply, Markhandeya tells the story of Savitri and her p ā tivrata m ā h ā tmya, which may be explained ...
... True to their word the sons of Pandu went with Draupadi into exile, and passed twelve years in the wilderness; and many were the incidents which checkered their forest life. Krishna, who had stood by Yudhishthir in his prosperity, now came to visit him in his adversity: he consoled Draupati in her distress, and gave good advice to the brothers. Draupadi with a woman's pride and anger still thought... , king of the Sindhu or Indus country, and a friend and ally of Duryodhan came to the woods, and in the absence of the Pandav brothers carried off Draupadi. The Pandavs however pursued the king, chastised him for his misconduct, and rescued Draupadi. Still more interesting than these various incidents are the tales and legends with which this book is replete. Great saints came to see Yudhishthir... Ῑ296ȋ of Book III of the original text. I Forest Life In the dark and pathless forest long the Pandav brothers strayed. In the bosom of the jungle with the fair Draupadi stayed. And they killed the forest red-deer, hewed the gnarled forest wood. From the stream she fetched the water, cooked the humble daily food. In the morn she swept the cottage ...
... how Savitri had saved and upraised herself, and her father and mother, her father-in-law and mother-in-law, extricated the whole House of her husband from calamity. The fortune-bringer Draupadi, full of noble qualities, will also, like Savitri, high-born and chaste, carry you all across to the shore. Page 88 ...
... delight in the heroic exploits of Gad ā dhar 114 Bhima. You also must have enjoyed it, I'm sure. But what you liked most I don't know - Bh ima's gad ā 125 or Krishna's chakra 126 or Draupadi's sad plight, or perhaps the dancing of the dwarf. If you ask me, I'll tell you what I liked most - I liked it for all this and for a glimpse of India's former glory. Different people have different... Please see a little more widely, a little deeply, a little more intuitively and perceptively. [N:] All right, sir. I accept. Still, a greater puzzle troubles me. How could you have allowed Draupadi to be dragged, to be insulted publicly before so many, in front of such a vast audience ? Why did you allow that ? For what reason? Can you explain that ? I asked him this with burning... because they'd insulted Her own Shaktis, Her powers. Beware! Have you finished your questions ? I've elsewhere to go, so many are calling me. [N:] I have another question. Now I accept poor Draupadi's humiliation, but what about Abhimanyu, that poor boy? Why was he sacrificed at the altar? Was this not a terrible sacrifice? [SA:] Yes, and it is for the same reason. It was necessary ...
... Indian epic Mahabharata. Once when Draupadi, the heroine, was about to be disgraced in public by her enemies, she appealed inwardly to Sri Krishna for Page 105 help. "O Sovereign of the Highest Heaven, come!" No response. "O Master of the Seven Worlds, come!" Nothing. "O Ruler of the Four Quarters, come!" Still no answer. Then desperately Draupadi called out, "O Dweller in my own heart... come!" Immediately Sri Krishna appeared to her subtle vision and signed to her not to be afraid. The enemies were foiled in their attempt to undrape her. The sari went on unfolding endlessly. Later Draupadi chided Sri Krishna and asked why he took so long in coming. He explained: "You see, the Highest Heaven, the Seven Worlds, even the Four Quarters are far away and it takes time to come from them. But ...
... filled the ugly and the filthy to the brim? If so, then you have acquired the philosopher's stone which transforms even the ugly into the beautiful. When Duhshasana, the second Kaurava, unrobed Draupadi, it must have been something indecent to look at. But when Sri Krishna robbed the bathing gopi girls of their clothes, it was supremely beautiful. The poet says, "Add the Divine to what is ugly ...
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... that blessed lot now? At that time I was in Yoga." DR. MANILAL: But he was always in Yoga. SRI AUROBINDO: He didn't say that. He said he had forgotten. DR. MANILAL: How could he have heard Draupadi's lamentation then during Vastraharan? SRI AUROBINDO: His subliminal heard it! (Laughter) DR. MANILAL: Is that story true, Sir, and not an allegory? SRI AUROBINDO: Why an allegory? DR ...
... man. Listen to the cry of insulted Draupadi to her husband: 'Arise, arise, O Bhimsena, wherefore liest thou like one that is dead? For nought but dead is he whose wife a sinful hand has touched and lives...'It is a supreme utterance of insulled feeling, and yet note how it expresses itself in the language of intellect, in a thought. The whole personality of Draupadi breaks out in that cry, her chastity... has stuck in my memory. While the sari is being pulled, Draupadi appeals to Krishna: "O Lord of the highest heaven, come to my help!" There is no response. The poor girl becomes more desperate. She sends out again a cry: "O Master of the three worlds, help me!" No reply still - and more and more folds of the sari come out. Once again Draupadi raises her heart's plea: "O Ruler of the four quarters of... rush to my rescue!" All in vain - nothing results. Draupadi is really at a loss. Then she Page 204 cries out in a final intensity: "O You who dwell in my own heart, come!" At once Krishna appears before her secretly, with his hand gesturing abhaya - "Have no fear." The sari goes on unwinding endlessly. In a later scene Draupadi chides Krishna: "Why did you take so long to come?" ...
... Swayamvara, nor fighting nor peacemaking in the story of Shacuntala? This is the first time, moreover, that a startled Indian public has been pointed to Shacuntala as the ideal Hindu woman. Sita, Draupadi, Savitri, Damayanti,—these are familiar to us as ideals, but Shacuntala is Mr. Risley's own addition. To us she is a beautiful poetic creation, not an exemplar of feminine conduct. We observe that ...
... without for a second lacking in real womanliness or respect for elders or reverence for tradition. Winternitz is right when he says that Savitri "recalls more the women of heroic poetry, such as Draupadi, Kunti and Vidula, than the brahmanical ideal of woman", 8 though it is doubtful whether even these, great as is their capacity to suffer and sacrifice, measure upto Savitri's incandescent purity ...
... of his tail which even Bhima could not raise! Here Purani brought in the topic of the Mahabharata, mention G. Ram's interpretation of that poem as symbolic, Bhima symbolising military genius and Draupadi... SRI AUROBINDO: Nonsense! It is something like Byron's joke on Dante's Divine Comedy, that Beatrice was a mathematical figure. PURANI: Critics say that in the future the epic will be more ...
... children were considered favourites of the gods. King Dasharatha had, it appears, a thousand wives, King Dhritarashtra had more than a hundred, Vashishtha had a hundred sons and King Sagar a thousand. Draupadi had five husbands and she was considered the ideal chaste woman. In the modern age we have gone to the other extreme, we have tided over the danger of under-population. At the present day it is ...
... children were considered favourities of the gods. King Dasharatha had, it appears, a thousand wives, King Dhritarashtra had more than a hundred, Vashishtha had a hundred sons and King Sagar a thousand. Draupadi had five husbands and she was considered the ideal chaste woman. In the modern age we have gone to the other extreme, we have tided over the danger of under-population. At the present day it is ...
... of which was understood without a laborious consultation of the dictionary. Yet although an unknown tongue, although no particular attention was paid 1 Panchali's Vow. Panchali or Draupadi was the wife of the five Pandava brothers in the Mahabharata. Page 367 to the words or their order everything remains in the mind even after several days. Formerly even a verse of ...
... of the narration seems to be the alleviation of grief of the eldest of the Pandavas, afflicted as he was by the sad helpless plight of his brothers and more so by the plight of their common wife Draupadi. This virtuous daughter of Drupada, the king of Panchala Desh, was bom in the purity of a sacrificial flame and was radiant and beautiful like a damsel who had come from the city of the gods. Warrior... was going to prove for the Pandavas a saviour and fortune-bringer. Issues far deeper than battles and kingdoms were involved in which human merits and misdemeanours were superficialities; in these Draupadi was a player who had accepted her lot with the strength of will that is bom of a flaming life-instinct. Eventually the overmastering agents of evil and falsehood were exterminated and the rule... begetting a rich Page 553 progeny. Markandeya concludes the narration by saying that in course of time all the boons got fulfilled. In a like manner, he assures Yudhishthira, Draupadi too will carry the Pandavas across the shore. Such in brief is the structural outline of the Savitri-tale given to us by Vyasa, a short composition of three hundred shlokas, mostly in Anushtubha ...
... purpose of the narration seems to be the alleviation of grief of the eldest of the Pandavas, afflicted as he was by the sad helpless plight of his brothers and more so by the plight of their common wife Draupadi. This virtuous daughter of Drupada, the king of Panchala Desh, was born in the purity of a sacrificial flame and was radiant and beautiful like a damsel who had come from the city of the gods. Warrior... Pandavas a saviour and fortune bringer. Issues far deeper than battles and kingdoms were involved in which human merits and misdemeanours were superficialities; Page 91 in these Draupadi was a player who had accepted her lot with the strength of will that is born of a flaming life-instinct. Eventually the overmastering agents of evil and falsehood were exterminated and the rule of... Satyavan to live with her and their begetting a rich progeny. Markandeya concludes the narration by saying that in course of time all the boons got fulfilled. In a like manner, he assures Yudhishthira, Draupadi too will carry the Pandavas across the shore. Such in brief is the structural outline of the Savitri-tale given to us by Vyasa, a short composition of three hundred shlokas, mostly in Anushtubha ...
... difficult to follow him or to accept his measure of values. To an oriental mind at least Rama and Ravana are as vivid and great and real characters as the personalities of Homer and Shakespeare, Sita and Draupadi certainly not less living than Helen or Cleopatra, Damayanti and Shakuntala and other feminine types not less Page 251 sweet, gracious and alive than Alcestis or Desdemona. I am not here ...
... period that Rishi Markandeya visits the Pandavas again and in response to the query of Yudhishthira narrates to him the story of Savitri. Yudhishthira's puzzlement is simple. He knows that noble Draupadi, the common wife of the five Pandavas, is chaste and virtuous, — bom as she was in the purity of the sacrificial flame. Yet in life she is seen to face most difficult hardships and suffer humiliation... to the afflicted who himself is a man of great accomplishments. Nor would the seer-poet indulge in this quick luxury to squander away his poetry on the routine and the common-place. If Savitri and Draupadi were born from the sacrificial flames, we must immediately recognise that in this secular garb we have in fact something deep, something that is luminously mysterious if not profoundly esoteric. The ...
... friends reproached him for-pledging his brothers, himself and even their wife, on the gambling board. Time and again that fateful scene would come back to his mind when, through his own fault, the proud Draupadi was dragged by her hair into the assembly hall and publiclyhumiliated, like no other woman had ever been. How could he sleep when he relived that moment, remembered his helplessness and the sarcasm ...
... one gets puissant fame. It may pass;—for were not the Vedic Rishis carpenters, greengrocers, chariot-makers? and perhaps the poet was a renowned blacksmith or a primitive iron-master or even, like Draupadi, a successful & famous cook. But when we find that Agni is said to exist encompassing the Page 10 adhwara Yajna on every side, the expressions already strike us as strange and almost ...
... libraries for repeated re-screenings. But Savitri is the tale of an unfinished epic, the chapters of which are even now unfolding in all our tumultuous, somnambulist lives and deaths. Like Draupadi's endlessly unfurling sari, it is an ever-unrolling tale, which does not come to a finis at any point, at least not for the likes of us, unless we come to possess what the Upanishadic seers had ...
... Roman Quirinius under whom the census was held in 6 A.D.) in the reign of Augustus Caesar. The conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn in the constellation of Pisces 4. A halya Kunti Draupadi Tara Mandodari tatha/ Panchakanya smarenityam mahapataka nashaka/ See my "Riddle of the Pancha Kanya" in Mother India elaborated further in "Panchakanya: Women of Substance" at http://wiow.boloji ...
... held for this purpose. Sometimes they would win a bride for themselves in "Svayamvara" by showing their skill in archery. In the Mahabharata, we have a fascinating account of the Svayamvara of Draupadi, the daughter of king Draupada. The competitors were asked to bend the specially mighty bow and shoot five arrows at a fish hanging from the ceiling in such a way that it was continuously moving ...
... a gentle serving-girl you need, Here is my sister, Coomood, who can cook Divinely. Take her. Let me walk on to Dongurh. You will regret it, youth. COOMOOD Believe her not, 'Tis she's a Droupadie; and who possesses her Is fated to be Emperor of the West. BAPPA Nay, you are twin sweet roses on one stalk And I will pluck you both, O flowers of Edur. COMOL Why did thy men beset ...
... qualities. Innumerable universes serve my lotus feet. I am all-devouring time for everyone other than the devotees. Simply by remembering me, one overcomes all difficulties. I delivered Draupadi from being dishonoured, and I protected the five Pandavas from the house of lac. I killed Vrkasura and saved Lord Śiva. I delivered my servant Gajendra. I delivered Prahlada, and I protected ...
... is true the Ramayana also represents an Aryan civilisation idealised: Rama and Sita are more intimately characteristic types of the Hindu temperament as it finally shaped itself than are Arjuna and Draupadi; Sri Krishna, though his character is founded in the national type, yet rises far above it. But although Valmiki, writing the poem of mankind, drew his chief figures in the Hindu model and Vyasa, ...
... Guru-stotram. [16] The next time he came to their house, in 1922, he stayed for two months. The ideal of womanhood was then still exemplified by Tara, Savitri, Ahalya, Mandodari, Sita, Kunti, Draupadi — married women solemnly worshipped these seven Satees every morning. (No wonder then, that Amma could never understand the "love" which now forms the criteria par excellence of our pre-marital ...
... every part, But like yourself, as they were meant to be. Or Tagore's Bengali peasant girls; or Kunti, like a wreath of faded lotuses' pleading with her disowned son Radheya; or the fiery Draupadi; or the Savitri of the Mahabharata rather than Aurobindo's superwoman. It's unimaginative (in the poetic sense) to need Utopias and superwomen and super-birds and a superworld reached through 'evolution' ...
... not think in images and symbols, his characters are as vague and abstract as his discourse. In the Vedic Hymns there is the poetry of images, in the Mahabharata what vivid Shakespearean characters Draupadi and Savitri are, and one can see the mysterious smile of the Lord Krishna and the mocking raised eyebrow of Duryodhana, and Kunti 'like a faded lotus-wreath' as she begs Radheya to spare her sons ...
... gardener; florist. मालिनी female florist; city of Champa; seven year old girl, Durga at Durga festival; Durga; celestial Ganges; name of a metre, of a river, of Bibhishana’s mother; of Draupadi at Virat’s court. मालेयः florist. मालयः relating to garland. माल्यं garland; flower. माल्यवत् wreathed; name of a mountain; maternal uncle of Ravana. मालिन्यं ...
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