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For the dice hall assault, people say it wasn't mentioned elsewhere, so could be interpolation. BORI NEVER says this and should be considered weird if they did say it 😆 Because their own texts mention it after. KMG does, too. The citations are from both places because I never bothered looking up corresponding parts of CE, not imagining even this would have to be proved.
Bheema mentions Panchali's nakedness, and Suyodhana says she was disrobed. Krishna uses whitewashed words like "outraged" and made to "suffer indignities." Also clear from the enemies' words (not included here, and I have a long list) is what duties were meant for her as slave
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DURING THE SCENE
CE, Volume 2, 285 (60)
He entered the house of thosemaharathas and told Princess Droupadi, “O Panchali! O Krishna! You have
been won by us.Look upon Duryodhana without any shame. O one with eyes like long lotus petals! You
willnow love the Kurus. You have been won in accordance with dharma. Come to the sabha.”
…
But he forcibly grabbed her by her black hair and told Krishna, “Pray to Krishna and Jishnuand Hari and
Nara.201 Cry out for help, but I will take you. O Yajnaseni! This may be thetime of your menses. But
whether you are clad in a single garment or in no garments at all,you have been won at the game and
are now a slave. One can sport with a slave as onedesires.
Her hair was dishevelled. As she was pulled around by Duhshasana, her half-garment had come loose.
She burnt with shame and mortification.
(same scene from KMG)
https://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/m02/m02066.htm
But Dussasana dragging Draupadi forcibly by her black locks while she was praying piteously unto
Krishna and Vishnu who were Narayana and Nara (on earth), said unto her--'Whether thy season
hath come or not, whether thou art attired in one piece of cloth or entirely naked, when thou hast been
won at dice and made our slave, thou art to live amongst our serving-women as thou pleasest."
AFTER THE SCENE
https://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/m03/m03182.htm
When the population of Kuru-jangala beheld Krishna outraged in the assembly hall, who but yourself
could brook that conduct, O Pandu's son, which was so repugnant both to virtue and usage? No doubt,
you will, before long, rule over men in a praiseworthy way, all your desires being fulfilled. Here are we
prepared to chastise the Kurus, as soon as the stipulation made by you is fully performed!
https://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/m05/m05029.htm
Look once more at that vilest of all their acts,--the conduct of the Kurus in the council-hall. That those
Kurus, at whose head stood Bhishma did not interfere when the beloved wife of the sons of Pandu,
daughter of Drupada, of fare fame, pure life, and conduct worthy of praise, was seized, while weeping, by
that slave of
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lust. The Kurus all, including young and old, were present there. If they had then prevented that indignity
offered to her, then I should have been pleased with Dhritarashtra's behaviour. It would have been for the
final good of his sons also. Dussasana forcibly took Krishna into the midst of the public hall wherein were
seated her fathers-in-law. Carried there, expecting sympathy, she found none to take her part, except
Vidura. The kings uttered not a word of protest, solely because they were a set of imbeciles. Vidura alone
spoke words of opposition, from a sense of duty,--words conceived in righteousness addressed to that
man (Duryodhana) of little sense. Thou didst not, O Sanjaya, then say what law and morality were, but
now thou comest to instruct the son of Pandu! Krishna, however, having repaired to the hall at that time
made everything right, for like a vessel in the sea, she rescued the Pandavas as also herself, from that
gathering ocean (of misfortunes)! Then in that hall, while Krishna stood, the charioteer's son addressed
her in the presence of her fathers-in-law saying, 'O Daughter of Drupada thou hast no refuge. Better
betake thyself as a bond-woman to the house of Dhritarashtra's son. Thy husbands, being defeated, no
longer exist. Thou hast a loving soul, choose some one else for thy lord.' This speech, proceeding from
Karna, was a wordy arrow, sharp, cutting all hopes, hitting the tenderest parts of the organisation, and
frightful. It buried itself deep in Arjuna's heart.
CE, Volume 4, 721 (58)
‘“Vasudeva said, ‘O Sanjaya! In the presence of the foremost among the Kurus and inDrona’s hearing,
speak these words to the intelligent Dhritarashtra. “Offer a large number ofsacrifices and donate
stipends to the brahmanas. Enjoy yourselves with your sons and wives.A great danger confronts you.
Distribute your riches among deserving ones. Have sons bornout of love. Do good deeds towards those
you love. The king132 will soon be victorious. Thatold debt is still impaled in my heart, because I have
not repaid it. When I was far away,Krishna cried out, ‘Govinda!’133
https://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/m09/m09005.htm
While clad in a single raiment and in her season, the princess Krishna was treated cruelly by Duhshasana
in the midst of the assembly and before the eyes of all. Those scorchers of foes, the Pandavas, who still
remember the naked Draupadi plunged into distress, can never be dissuaded from battle.
"'"Then again, Krishna, the daughter of Drupada, is in sorrow, undergoing the austerest of penances for
my destruction and the success of the objects cherished by her husbands, and sleepeth every day on the
bare ground, intending to do so till the end of the hostilities is attained. Abandoning honour and pride,
the uterine sister of Vasudeva (Subhadra) is always serving Draupadi as veritable waiting woman.
https://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/m09/m09059.htm
Having attained to the other shores of those fierce hostilities, Vrikodara once more laughingly said these
words slowly unto Yudhishthira and Keshava and Srinjaya and Dhananjaya and the two sons of Madri,
"They that had dragged Draupadi, while ill, into the assembly and had disrobed her there, behold
those Dhartarashtras slain in battle by the Pandavas through the ascetic penances of Yajnasena's
daughter! Those wicked-hearted sons of king Dhritarashtra who had called us 'Sesame seeds without
kernel,' have all been slain by us with their relatives and followers! It matters little whether (as a
consequence of those deeds) we go to heaven or fall into hell!"
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