According to the Indian Copyright Act, 1957, as amended up to Act No. The Indian Copyright Act applies in India to works first published in India. This work is in the public domain in India because its term of copyright has expired. Given this final insult that Draupadi faced, the younger Pandavas break their silence and vow to avenge these and further humiliations, which culminates in the epic battle, the Mahabharata. Finally, a tired Dushasana backs off without being able to remove her clothing. As Dushasana unwraps layers and layers of her sari, it keeps getting extended.

Seeing her husbands unable or unwilling to help her, Draupadi prays to Lord Krishna to protect her. Drunk with power, Dushasana tries to strip Draupadi of her sari. Dushasana drags her into the court by her hair. When the Kauravas win, the eldest one Duryodhana, commands his younger brother Dushasana to forcefully bring her to the gathering. Against the protests of the family elders, who argue a woman cannot be put at stake, Yudhishthira puts Draupadi as a bet for the next round. Still the Kauravas are not satisfied by this humiliation, so they taunt Yudhishthira further into betting his wife.

Yudhishthira, the eldest and most-respected Pandava, is then goaded into gambling away each brother. Her husbands, the Pandavas are tricked by their cousins, the Kauravas, into a fixed game of dice in which they lose their all their wealth and kingdom. Notes: Property from a private collection, Michiganĭraupadi's cheer-haran, literally meaning stripping of one's clothes, marks a definitive moment in the story of Mahabharata.

With the blind king Dhritarashtra flanked by the Kauravs seated in a golden pavilion, the Pandavas at left in the foreground with heads bowed in shame as their wife is stripped of her garments, Krishna's miracle illustrated by the multiple lengths of cloth at her feet English: An Illustration from the Mahabharata: The Shakuni the king of Gandhar and the price of Hastinapur had a plan of the game dice.They need to win the game to insert Draupadi the kulavadu of Hastinapur.

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