How many husbands did draupadi have

In early societies with high infant mortality rate and short lifespans, polygamy was preferred to polyandry. When a man had many wives, the family could have more children than a woman having many husbands. But polyandry had benefits too — sharing a wife assured sharing of property and no division of the land.

Did the husbands fight over Draupadi? The epic does not explicitly discuss this, but the possibility of jealously tearing the brothers apart is alluded to repeatedly.

She asked for a husband with 14 qualities the main 5 are Moral values, physical strength, skilled, handsome and intelligent. This is an impossibility, all these qualities cannot co-exist in one man.

If I send someone who has all these qualities to you, he will be an imbalance in the society and ultimately he might be a threat. Hey Devi, lower your standards. You only wanted the best archer, a man with the power of elephants, a man whose morales and wisdom has no match in the planet, a man who is the most handsome and a man whose intellect is famous worldwide.

Lord Shiva told you that what you are aiming for is an impossibility but you were firm on your demands. You were not ready to lower your standards.

Now that your wish has come true, you cannot deny it. You have to accept it, for that is your karma. He actually refers to Draupadi as 'Bheeksha'. Without seeing what her sons had brought, Kunti instructed the five Pandava brothers to share the alms among them Draupadi. The five brothers had never disobeyed their mother. So, Draupadi had to marry each of the five brothers. But why did she marry five men? During her previous birth, Draupadi had wished for a husband who was an epitome of righteousness.

The epic does not explicitly discuss this,but the possibility of jealously tearing the brothers apart is repeatedly alluded to.

The sage Narada warns the Pandava brothers of conflict that can destroy their bond. Narada suggests that they make careful bedroom arrangements to allow equal and exclusive access to each husband for a limited period of time. Any brother who enters her chamber when she is with another husband will have to perform penance. Arjuna does stumble in once while she is in the arms of Yudhishtira and so has to go on a pilgrimage to atone. During this 'pilgrimage', he ends up with three more wives.

Every brother has exclusive rights to Draupadi's chamber for a year, and then has to wait for four years for the next turn. Why one whole year? Perhaps because it gave Draupadi enough time to bear a child for that husband without any paternity issues.

She bore each of her husbands a son. Before she moves to the next husband,Draupadi walks through fire to regain her virginity and purity. Such rules were never placed before polygamous husbands. But Draupadi had a rule of her own for her husbands. She makes it very clear to her husbands that they cannot bring any other wife into the same house.

Thus all the Pandavas have other wives, but these wives stay with their parents and the Pandavas have to travel out of the city to visit their other wives in the four years that Draupadi is intimate with the other brothers. The only exception is made for Krishna's sister, Subhadra, who marries Arjuna. Millions offer 'arghya' to rising Sun as Chhath festival concludes. I have not retired from politics: ex-Lok Sabha speaker Sumitra Mahajan.

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