did arjuna loved draupadi as much she loved him?

This is one of the most controversial questions on Mahabharata. N dat is mainly due to the fact that Ved Vyas hasn't said much about their intimate moments. Draupadi's partiality for Arjun can somewat be justified, because Arjun was the one, she was supposed to be married to, although she was dutiful to all the others, as well.

I don't think we will ever know how much each of the brothers loved Draupadi, because Veda Vyasa did not spend much time on describing their emotions in-depth, but from what we know of the story, Subhadra was his favorite wife and Abhimanyu was his favorite son. He did love Draupadi and respected her, but I do not think she was his favorite. However, her position and the rights she received as the Pandavas' common wife and the queen of Indraprastha surpassed those of any other wife of the Pandavas.

Originally posted by: amritat

With Subhadra, things were different. They fell in love with each other n eloped. They have a love story. So, there's was a love marriage. Besides, she was Lord Krishna's beloved sister. N she was devoted to him alone. Arjun didn't bond much with Iravan, as far as I know, couldn't stay with Babruvahana for long. After that it was Abhimanyu, who was born, with whom I suppose, he spent a lot of time. Hence, he was more inclined to him than Shrutakirti.

I wish Arjun mentioned it somewhere clearly whom he loved the most...at least it wouldn't have created such chaos in Kaliyug 😆

Originally posted by: ojaswiniprinces

Yes we can say that arjuna loved abhimanyu more b'coz he was able to raise him but don't u all think that no father could give preference to his another son more than one son so he might have loved him too but nothing is mentioned.i also feel that he married subhadra b'coz of lord krishna saying him to marry her and that marriage was more love from subhadra's side and attraction from arjuna's side(he loved her too)but it was more politics in their marriage but destiny and choice and heaven made jodi types in arjuna and draupadi's marriage.but i can't merely judge anything as it is very difficult to judge relations which existed 50000yrs ago.

@Red, Krishna didnt, Arjun ws in love with Subhadra, he wanted to marry her, and Krishna, supported them, and it was not attraction from Arjun side, it was mutual love from both side.

Just thought I would post this here

arjun had deep respect for Draupadi he loved her ofcourse but never as much as draupadi did because when his first feeling of blossoming love towards draupadi got a shock when she got shared he detached himself from her because his brothers and mother were more important to him he loved them more so though in subconcious he didn't accept the sharing he agreed and since then he confided his feeling for her within himself he delibarately took that 12 years exile upon him though yudi stopped him may be he wanted to be away from this system after uloopi convinced him that his celibacy vow is not applicable for other women he was freed from vow he was attracted and desired for chitrangada and accepted condition from her father to get her when he meets subhadra it was arjun who first fell in love with her which krishna noticed subhadra was never open about her feelings that's why krishna asked him to kidnap her all these Marriages helped arjun to fade his feeling to Draupadi and he became aloof to her she still had special place in his life as all brothers but he was not so close or free to her rather he was more comfortable with subhadra because she was his madhav's sis and very calm and devoted so his affection went to her i am arjun-subhadra fan after krishnarjun and arjun-chitrangada

as for as I think even arjun would have loved draupadi most he would not be so much open towards his feelings for drau because as for as I have thought if arjun personality he was really devoted to his bros and he would have forbidded any such thoughts and would suppress it. may b he knew abt drau liking him most and may be he cared and loved her most but he would have never liked to get the blame of preference on him because then he would be returning the same feeling that drau had for him n it would have been like adding ghee to fire which would have destroyed everything ultimately.as for as I think jealousy needs just a spark to become fire

He would have openly loved her the most had she been only his, but here she is also the Empress of the Kingdom, wife of his two Elder brothers ...

Originally posted by: Rushika

I wish Arjun mentioned it somewhere clearly whom he loved the most...at least it wouldn't have created such chaos in Kaliyug 😆

👍🏼,but arjun said that he loves his madhava more but yeh log tho sunthe hi nahi😳😳 arjun ki peeche hi padgaya ,jab draupadhi ko koi problem nahi hai hum ko kya who he loves more😛😛😆