DRAUPADI :The 1st Feminist From The Ancient India.

Does a man has any authority to sell/stake his wife as a property ? The answer is simple. A Big No. Then how can the Dharma Raj himself can make a mistake like this ? In fact its not a mistake, its a sin. 

History will never forgive Yudhisthira for this. 

This is one occasion which has changed the Indian value system and social thoughts for ever. Lets discuss about this and we will see how the daughter of fire has reacted to this madness.

The Situation:

The Kuru Mahasabha is full of nobles and intellectuals.In presence of these high ranking nobles one illicit game is going on.

Yudhisthira himself knew it very well. slowly slowly he is losing the game and all his belongings. 1st he lost his money. then his land and kingdom.Then his brothers and lost himself also. 

Now he has nothing left with him. He lost everything. Suddenly he realized that still he has something to keep in stake.Its non other than his wife Draupadi to whom his younger brother Arjuna has own in the swayambar. 

Next moment he lost Draupadi also..

*This was the  failure of king Yudhisthira as a husband. 

                                      

Draupadi's Reaction:

upon summoned to the royal court, her 1st reaction was how can a women be in the stake of a dice game ?

Then she ask the messenger Go and check if the gambler, who he had lost first—himself or her?This one was a bold move by Draupadi. Imagine that situation.It was in ancient India and a women is asking question to the royal court.

Once reached the the court, Draupadi ask this question to Yudhisthira again and again. The Dharma Raja was stays still, as if he has lost his voice.

Till today also this question is in debate. after losing him self has Yudhisthira holds any authority to keep Draupadi in stake ?

Her Fight Back :

She was dragged to the court by hair in presence of all elders. No one had any courage to stop this madness. All her five husbands became stone idol but she was not. 

She was not submissive. She fought against this barbarism with all her power. But rule of the nature came in front of her. a women cant win against male in muscle power. 

She was angry.She shout help from all elders and all the powerful men in that royal court. but she got nothing.. 

Now she has decided to destroy every thing and every one present in that court. Inducing her useless husbands. 

She is thinking to curse every one in the KURU clan. when she was just about to pronounce the curse at that moment another women came to stop her. It is the queen mother Gandhari. 

How amazing ..One women is determent to take revenge by destroying whole clan and another women wants to save her family from this. Finally the Agni kanya agreed not to curse.

But she has decided to take the revenge. She is not there to forgot or forgive. after that what happened all we know. The Mahabharat. 

Conclusion:

But up to this she has made her point. She has challenged the whole male power and there domination in the society.

She has asked questions in the royal court and no one able to answer her.No one in that court had the courage to see eye to eye with Panchali. 

That day, only Draupadi was not there in that Kuru sabha. She was representing the whole gender. 

That day she has not spoken on behalf of herself. she was speaking for all helpless women. 

That day it was decided how the Indian social structure will be in future. 

It was that daughter of Fire who raise voice for women's right in the Kuru Sabha. It was Draupadi. The 1st feminist from the ancient India.