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1 2, 3| Softly, sweetly, steps Draupadi, queen of every winning
2 2, 3| claim!"~Then he turns unto Draupadi, tells each prince and suitor'
3 2, 4| strife,~Each regards the fair Draupadi as his own his queenly wife,~
4 3 | incident followed the bridal of Draupadi. The five sons of Panda
5 3 | mandate cannot be disregarded, Draupadi became the common wife of
6 3 | main incidents of the Epic, Draupadi might rather be regarded
7 3 | of Krishna, shortly after Draupadi's bridal, and had by her
8 3 | to him self no wife save Draupadi, and she was crowned with
9 3 | Notwithstanding the legend, therefore, Draupadi might be regarded as wedded
10 3, 7| From Yudhishthir's queen Draupadi parts the chief with many
11 4 | mother and brothers and Draupadi. And as Yudhishthir lost
12 4 | himself, and then the fair Draupadi, and lost! And thus the
13 4, 1| I - DRAUPADI IN THE COUNCIL HALL~Glassed
14 4, 1| shine Hastina's walls~Queen Draupadi duly honoured lives within
15 4, 1| humble menial came to proud Draupadi's ken.~Pardon, Empress,"
16 4, 1| menial, to thy master, Queen Draupadi's answer take,~If my lord,
17 4, 1| prince Duryodhan, Queen Draupadi is unwon!"~Wrathful was
18 4, 1| hie,~Proudly sat the fair Draupadi, monarch's daughter, monarch'
19 4, 1| young and brave!"~Proud Draupadi shakes with tremor at Duhsasan'
20 4, 1| where dwelt the women, Queen Draupadi seeks to fly.~Vainly sped
21 4, 2| II - DRAUPADI'S PLAINT~Loose-attired,
22 4, 2| with trailing tresses, came Draupadi weak and faint,~Stood within
23 4, 2| every holy rite,~Pardon if Draupadi cometh in this sad unseemly
24 4, 3| AND VOW OF REVENGE~Spake Draupadi slender-waisted, and her
25 4, 3| reeked they for the fall,~But Draupadi's pleading glances like
26 4, 3| marked with anger insults on Draupadi flung,~Fulsome word nor
27 4, 3| action, when they heard Draupadi's plaint.~But brave Karna,
28 4, 3| They have lost thee, sweet Draupadi, lost their empire and their
29 4, 3| Hast thou lost thy fair Draupadi, is thy wedded wife our
30 4, 3| Sought the prince to stain Draupadi with a deep and dire disgrace,~
31 4, 4| wrath?~Slow and gently to Draupadi was the sightless monarch
32 4, 4| Answered him the fair Draupadi: "Monarch of the Kuru's
33 4, 5| rule a mighty State,~Fair Draupadi, ever faithful. wins the
34 4, 6| dwell,~Unto Pritha, came Draupadi, came to speak her sad farewell,~
35 4, 6| me, mother," so the fair Draupadi said,~"Safe in righteous
36 4, 6| loose her tresses, fair Draupadi bowed and left,~Ancient
37 4, 6| your virtues prove,~Dear Draupadi, loving daughter, lot a
38 4, 6| cry,~Kuru maids for fair Draupadi fortune's fitful will upbraid,~
39 5 | sons of Pandu went with Draupadi into exile, and passed twelve
40 5 | his adversity; he consoled Draupadi in her distress, and gave
41 5 | advice to the brothers. Draupadi with a woman's pride and
42 5 | Pandav brothers carried off Draupadi. The Pandavs however pursued
43 5 | misconduct, and rescued Draupadi.~Still more interesting
44 5, 1| the jungle with the fair Draupadi stayed,~And they killed
45 5, 1| er the wood and lea,~Men Draupadi by the cottage cooked the
46 5, 1| start,~But the woes of fair Draupadi grieve a banished husband'
47 6 | charge of the king's cows. Draupadi too disguised herself as
48 6, 2| and valour thus to fair Draupadi prayed:~"Say to him that
49 6, 2| contest fierce and keen."~Fair Draupadi, guised as menial, Arjun'
50 6, 2| to lead?~"Need is none," Draupadi answered, "Brihannala's
51 6, 3| wild and distant shore,~And Draupadi noble princess, purest best
52 6, 3| waiting-woman doth the fair Draupadi shine,~Pardon, prince, these
53 6, 6| fame,~Came the sons of fair Draupadi early trained in art of
54 6, 6| Brightest shines the fair Draupadi with a beauty rich and rare,~
55 7, 1| Twelve long years with fair Draupadi in the pathless jungle strayed,~
56 9, 3| breath,~For I owe to Queen Draupadi, impious prince, thy speedy
57 9, 3| the anguished mother, fair Draupadi tore her hair,~Matsya's
58 9, 5| Burning tears the proud Draupadi wept for noble father killed,~
59 10, 2| fall,~Heaping insults on Draupadi in Hastina's council hall?~
60 10, 3| gallant Abhimanyu dead!~Fair Draupadi doth her penance, so our
61 10, 3| dear departed son,~Feeds Draupadi's deathless anger for the
62 10, 4| sleeping grandsons, fair Draupadi's children lay,~Stole the
63 11, 5| the princes by the proud Draupadi borne,~Not the fall of friends
64 12, 4| horse of noble breed,~Placed Draupadi, Queen of yajna, by the
65 End | retire to the Himalayas. Draupadi drops down dead on the way,
66 End | bore,~Sprung from altar as Draupadi human shape for thee she
67 Epi | the proud and scornful Draupadi nursing her wrath till her
68 Epi | the gorgeous bridal of Draupadi; the equally gorgeous coronation
69 Epi | and the scornful wrath of Draupadi against her insulters; the
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