MEN UNDER AGONY

His struggle

In the previous chapter you just had the brief of pitamah.Now , allow me to take you to the deeper corner.

The Pandavas were invited for a game of dice (dyutkrida)by their cousins the Kauravas.

(according to resources,the dice was made of Jarasandha’s bones.Jarasandha was a powerful king of Magadha who was later killed by Bhima in a duel.)

In the hall of the courtroom of Hastinapur, the Pandavas gambled off all their wealth, weapons, and lands. Yudhishthira, the eldest of the five, decided to step down, but Shakuni encouraged him by saying that he still had his brothers, and maybe if he won the next round, he could win back whatever he had lost. The offer was enticing, and despite the protests of his younger brothers, he agreed. Eventually, he lost all his brothers and himself too. He hung his head low in humiliation and decided it was time to stop the game.

The Kauravas encouraged him to keep Draupadi, the Pandavas' common wife, as the bet. Yudhishthira agreed. His brothers were furious by this point, but because he was the eldest, they couldn't stop him from making such a grave mistake.

The game began, once again, the Pandavas lost! Duryodhana, the eldest Kaurava, was ecstatic. He smirked and asked a servant to bring Draupadi, his new “slave,” in the courtroom. Male servants weren’t allowed in the female quarters, so the servant sent by Duryodhana was ordered to return by Draupadi’s maids.Provoked, Duryodhana ordered his younger brother Dushasan to bring Draupadi in the courtroom in whatever position he found her. Following Duryodhana's orders, Dushasan broke into Draupadi's quarters and commanded her to come with him. According to sources, Draupadi was a Rajaswala (a woman in her monthly menstrual cycle) at that time. A Rajaswala was not permitted in the courtroom under palace rules. A violation of this rule was regarded as extremely disrespectful. Also, being a Rajaswala she was Ekvastri i.e. adorned in a single cloth.

When she refused to come with him, Dushasana slapped her and pulled her by her hair. Draupadi, the daughter of the king Drupada, the wife of the Pandavas, the daughter-in-law of the Kurus, and the queen of Indraprastha was dragged by her hair to the courtroom of Hastinapur. She pleaded and thrashed, but Dushasan didn’t budge. After humiliating and hurling hideous remarks towards Draupadi, Duryodhana ordered Dushasan to disrobe her publicly in front of the entire court of Hastinapur.

He was disheartened because he was not able to protect a woman after being a warrior and that too not a single woman . She was his own beloved daughter in law.

She was getting insulted, disrobed and still begging for someone to take a stand for her and save her.

And the most she expected from was pitamah himself.She thought that he didn't care about her dignity but she was wrong,deadly wrong.

Because the man in front of everyone who always stood strong and brave within the Armor wasn't actually that brave.

He was a normal 7.9ft tall human being who was suffering.He had pictured himself so strong that he can't even feel guilty in front of someone .After all he was the oldest among them and how could he just say that he was suffering. If he even did what will his descendents learn from him.

His struggle is indescribable. It can't be confessed in words.He was already suffering from the mistakes and now not being able to help draupadi was now his biggest guilt...