The entire story is narrated through Panchaali, the wife of the five Pandavas, sister to
Dhri and daughter of King Drupad. King Drupad has longs for
the death of Drona, his ex-friend and now enemy. Panchaali grows up isolated from
most people except for Dhai Ma, Krishna, and Dhri. To get her married, King Drupad
calls for a swayamvar, where all of the princes and kings of Bharat (modern-day India)
are invited, and Panchaali will choose her husband from them. However, to be eligible to
marry Panchaali there is an unbelievably hard test of skill. Panchaali ends up marrying
Arjun, a Pandava prince. However, she has really fallen in love with Karna, the
Pandava’s enemy
Arjun’s mother Kunti accidentally tells all four of Arjun’s
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Because of those five marriages, the Kauravas have to allow the
Pandavas back into Hastinapur and Dhritarashtra is shamed into giving Yudhisthir his
half of the kingdom.
After many years of a happy reign in their own kingdom, Yudhisthir plays a rigged
gambling game with Duryodhan and as a result the five chauhan2 Pandavas and Panchaali are banished into the forest for twelve years and they must
spend their thirteenth year in exile undercover. However, before they leave for exile,
Duryodhan takes full benefit of the situation and orders Panchaali to be disrobed in the
middle of the court; however, due to an intervention by a God, Panchaali’s sari never
ends, but it is Duryodhan who gets tired of pulling the never-ending sari. The twelve
years of exile in the forest pass. During their thirteenth year, Yudhisthir disguises himself
as an advisor in King Virat of Matsys’s court. Bheem becomes a cook, Nakul and
Sahadev gain employment as workers in the king’s barn, Panchaali gains work as
Queen Sudeshna’s maid, and Arjun disguises himself as a woman, teaching dance
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It is sometimes better known as the "Jambul episode". The hidden love of Draupadi for Karna is something that has been explored by many writers.[25]
According to a legend from Mahabharata, during the thirteenth year of the exile of the Pandavas, Draupadi saw a ripe jambul (rose apple), hanging from a tree. She plucked it. No sooner had she done this, Lord Krishna came from somewhere and stopped her from eating it. He informed her that the ripe fruit was supposed to be the fruit with which sage Amitra was supposed to break his twelve-year fast. Not finding the fruit at its place, the Pandavas could earn the wrath of the sage, resulting in more trouble.
Lord Krishna revealed a way to avoid this problem. In order for that to happen, each one of Pandavas must speak only the truth. Saying thus, he took them to the tree. He placed the fruit under the tree and told that each one of them should reveal all secrets about them without hiding anything and without any deceit. Then the fruit will go and cling to the tree on its own accord. One by one, the Pandavas and Draupadi reveal their truths, with the fruit moving up each