Her eyes. Draupadi's eyes haunt me. I should have stepped in. I should have said something. I could have saved her from her humiliation in the court today. I don't understand how the elders of the court stood silent and upheld their textbook dharma when a woman's honour was at stake. Even her husbands did nothing to protect her!
They say Draupadi was granted five husbands because in her past life she asked Lord Shiva for five qualities in her husband, and no one man possessed all five. I wonder what useless qualities she asked for. As apparently none of them were of any use to her today!
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They say Draupadi was granted five husbands because in her past life she asked Lord Shiva for five qualities in her husband, and no one man possessed all five. I wonder what useless qualities she asked for. As apparently none of them were of any use to her today!
Read the rest of the post in its new home here: https://vijeya.wordpress.com/2014/05/29/karna/
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