Human staking

One main issue that always gets neglected that yudhishtra staked human beings human who were his brother wife and also people who his kingdom in that game of dice staked and lost not only his wealth but also the trust and faith if so many people and this was done under the pretext of "dharm". Does not it goes on to show that tge system that led these things happen according to which pandavas and drapaudi were slaves against their own wishes according to which it was ok to gamble away the prosperity of normal peasants . It was ok to drag a woman who is in single piece of cloth just because she was a slave ??? Does this not put a question on the mortals of the entire society itself ? The same society according to whom yudhishtra is dharmraj

Originally posted by: Poorabhforever

One main issue that always gets neglected that yudhishtra staked human beings human who were his brother wife and also people who his kingdom in that game of dice staked and lost not only his wealth but also the trust and faith if so many people and this was done under the pretext of "dharm". Does not it goes on to show that tge system that led these things happen according to which pandavas and drapaudi were slaves against their own wishes according to which it was ok to gamble away the prosperity of normal peasants . It was ok to drag a woman who is in single piece of cloth just because she was a slave ??? Does this not put a question on the mortals of the entire society itself ? The same society according to whom yudhishtra is dharmraj

I love your signature .. it’s defined our being so nicely.

I completely agree with you on all your points.

It doesn't matter which yug, which place the characters are based in and what moral and social codes they follow - there is a universal code of good vs bad vs evil behavior. This human staking is much much worse than a bad behavior. It's completely evil. Think of how we will judge a man now who stakes his wife in a casino and she is almost gang raped.

If stopping that game was breaking some moral code or was dharm virruddh, so be it. It would still be far more preferable to what the so called dharmraj did.

His only strong point is that the opposite party was even worse. Considering that the opposite team was led by potential rapists that's hardly a glowing recommendation.

I find it very very hard to empathize with any single character of Mahabharata - maybe Eklavya, Bheesm to some extent.

Originally posted by: Sutapasima

I love your signature .. it’s defined our being so nicely.

Thank u. I love the krishna Krishnaa duo

The biggest worry for me is staking Draupadi, the wife! I know he staked other human beings as well but as a society we have moved past the mindset where a younger bro is subject to the will of the elder one but the mentality that women are objects, the inferior race, still continues. So, the wife is a husband's property. That is why he staked her even after he himself became a slave and nobody objected to that.

The jar, jameen,joru thing is still prevalent and it is suffocating for me as a woman. Men swear abuse in the name of mother and sister! She is the honour of the house. She is the most disadvantaged and traumatized during wars and conflicts. And this is across the world, in every society. 🥺

I don't think anyone of ignores this act. There have been people always asking and questioning this act of Yudhishtir. As per the laws of those days younger brothers sons and wives were the property, so he wasn't legally wrong in staking them, but morally? No rule can call him Dharma.

Those days Dyut was very common, I don't think that everytime people played they waited till one of the parties lost their wives. Obviously they would have ended the game somewhere so why didn't Yudhishtir even try to end the game?

Even if it was Dharma to continue playing since the Maharaja of the Sabha had not announced the end, I don't think a polite permission or at least a request to Dhritrashtra to end the game would have been Adharma.

This is a lame attempt to justify Yudhishtir, he might have been Dharmraj here but this was certainly wrong and very wrong. He was actually continuing the play by his choice not due to any pressure

Originally posted by: Poorabhforever

Thank u. I love the krishna Krishnaa duo

The words define Radha Krishn beautifully .. ..

Originally posted by: Sutapasima

The words define Radha Krishn beautifully .. ..

The words are actually for krishna and krishnaa. Sri and Narayan govind and panchali.

Originally posted by: Poorabhforever

The words are actually for krishna and krishnaa. Sri and Narayan govind and panchali.

That's right! Draupadi was called Krishnaa because she had dark skin. How beautiful is this quote! ❤️

Originally posted by: sonnet11

That's right! Draupadi was called Krishnaa because she had dark skin. How beautiful is this quote! ❤️

True both are enigmas truly truly beautiful people