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Duryodhana was a good friend of Matsya Kingdom's commander-in-chief Kichaka. When Bhima killed him for humiliating Draupadi, Duryodhana blamed Matsya's King Virata for his friend Kichaka's death. Virata got angry and ordered Duryodhana to get out of his Kingdom after insulting him.
Duryodhana's wife—named Bhanumati in later retelling—is a minor character is in Mahabharata, and mainly appears in the folk tales. [36] She is unnamed in the epic, but it is described that she was the princess of Kalinga Kingdom and was the daughter of Chitrangada. She was abducted by Duryodhana with the help of his friend Karna.
Thereupon, Kitchaka hails and badly humiliates her in between the court. Due to the stipulation, Pandavas persevered with patience. After that, they tactically plot by alluring Kichaka through Draupadi and invite him to the dancing hall, where Bhima backstabs him. Being conscious of it, Duryodhana unearths the Pandavas concealed in Matsya.
Afterward, Duryodhana creates hurdles for the Pandavas Yaga by resorting to Ghosha Yatra, staying nearby, and mocking them. However, when he faces defeat by Gandharva king Chitrasena, Dharmaja sends Bhima & Arjuna for his rescue, which ignites his self-esteem, and he decides to take self-immolation, but Karna & Shakuni comfort him.
Draupadi (Sanskrit: द्रौपदी, romanized: draupadī, lit. 'Daughter of Drupada'), also referred to as Krishnā, Panchali, and Yajnaseni, is the main female protagonist of the ancient Indian epic Mahabharata, and the wife of the five Pandava brothers—Yudhishthira, Bhima, Arjuna, Nakula, and Sahadeva. [1]
A jealous Duryodhana summons Pandavas for a dice game, where Yudhishthira loses his kingdom, brothers, and their common wife Draupadi. Draupadi is dragged and humiliated and disrobed in the court in front of everyone by Dushasana on the order of his elder brother Duryodhan, however, Krishna saves her honor in the end. Bheeshma, Drona, and other ...
Yudhishthira assumes the identity of game entertainer to the king and calls himself Kanka, Bhima of a cook Ballava, [6] Arjuna teaches dance and music as eunuch Brihannala and dresses as a woman, Nakula tends horses as Granthika, Sahadeva herds cows as Tantipala, and Draupadi in the name of Malini went as Sairandhri to queen Shudeshna.
He is the brother of Draupadi, the female protagonist of the epic, who is the common wife of the Pandavas. [ 2 ] Shikhandi, whose natal female identity is sometimes rendered Shikhandini , [ 3 ] is the reincarnation of Amba , a princess who was abducted by Bhishma at a svayamvara and later spurned by him.