Madhuvidya

Author(s): S D Laddu, T N Dharmadhikari, Madhvi Kolhatkar, Pratibha Pingle
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad

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Yudh. lost everything in a single game (2.61. 31-32)
Yudh, staked and played, staked and played five times to lose his brothers and himself. (2.58.11-28)
Yudh. first only staked five brothers individually in five stakes and played. five stakes and afterwards played five conscutive games to lose all (2.58.30)
Yudhisthira lost Draupadi's stake; Drupadi asked to come to the Sabhă
Duhśāsana dragged Draupadi to the Sabhā (2.60.22 ff.)
Draupadi herself came to the Sabhā (2.60.14-15)
Notes: 1. F. Edgerton (Sabhäparvan, Introduction, XXXII) observes: "Again it seems
to me that two accounts of the same event are taken into the text side by side". This part of the event has not been specifically narrated but may safely be assumed. Obviously in this version there will be no occasion for Duḥśäsana to drag Draupadi by her hair. F. Edgerton (Sabhāparvan, Introduction, XXXI), “Clearly we have here parts of two entirely different versions of the story." This was, for example, how Puskara lost everything to Nala in a single stake (3.77.18). Unlike Nala, in the second match between him and Puskara, when he mentioned Damayanti specifically as his stake along with all his wealth (3.77.5). It is likely that in this lost version Draupadi raised the question not only about herself, but also about the four Pandavas. Apparently while staking his sarvasva, Yudhisthira had not named his brothers either. When Duryodhana challenged any one of the Pāndavas to reply to Draupadi's question Bhima in his reply said that if Yudhisthira considered himself won, the rest of the
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