In the Mahabharata, Draupadi has
been portrayed as a dutiful, benign, wife to the Pandava brothers. Although she
plays an extremely important role in the epic – after all, it was her
humiliating disrobing that had set the ball rolling for an eventual conflict in
the battlefields of Kurukshetra – she was dependant on the Pandavas for
protection, and looked upon Krishna as her confidant and guide.
April 2016