Draupadi was brave and beautiful. She had put a condition to her marriage, that she would wed only that who would pierce the eye of the rotating wooden fish by looking at its reflection. She eventually became the wife of the five Pandavs because of their mother, Kunti who thinking her sons brought a gift, asked them to divide it amongst themselves.
He was one of the eldest sons of Dhritarashtra and Gandhari. By nature, he was proud, ambitious and had a hunger for power. Some say his body is made out of thunder and that when he was born ill omens surrounded him. He is also very powerful. He befriends Karna and makes him King of Anga, so he could be equals with Arjun. In the war, Duryodhan chooses to fight with Bheem, who kills him by attacking his thigh, the only part of his body not protected by Gandhari’s blessing. Some say it was unfair for Bheem to kill him that way in which it goes against the rules of mace-fighting, yet Duryodhan’s bad deeds have said for him to deserve it.
Married King Shantanu, drowned seven of her sons because the Vasus had asked her to be their mother and kill them as soon as they were born because they were cursed by the Sage Vashishtha for stealing a prized possession. Her eighth son however, Bhishma was kept alive. Her river is holy and many people go there to bathe or immerse ashes into the Ganga river.
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