6/13/2023 0 Comments Draupadi vastraharanNow if you believe that it was really Kṛṣṇa that saved Draupadī that day, then why did BORI decide to edit out Draupadī's prayer from its critical edition? Why did they think it was an interpolation in the original text? If it's not Kṛṣṇa, then who's it that really saved Draupadī that day? I tend to agree with the above because as I point out in this answer to Krishna's role in the game of dice, Kṛṣṇa neither acknowledges nor takes credit for coming to Draupadī's rescue. However, there is no intervention from Krishna. The never-ending stream of garments is given as an extraordinary event. The critical edition has excised the prayer to Krishna. Krishna provides the never-ending stream of garments that stump Duhshasana. In similar vein, in popular renderings, when Droupadi is being disrobed, she prays to Krishna. This is what Bibek Debroy writes in the introduction to his translation based on the BORI critical edition of the Mahābhārata: Contrary to popular belief, seems like it wasn't Kṛṣṇa who rescued Draupadī when she was being disrobed by Duḥśāsana.
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