Draupadi Sankalap | Draupadi Cheer haran | Damini Bisht | Mahabharata

When it all started. Draupadi’s cheer-haran, marks a definitive moment in the story of Mahabharata. Her husbands, the Pandavas are tricked by their cousins, the Kauravas, into a fixed game of dice in which they lose their all their wealth and kingdom. Yudhishthira, the eldest and most-respected Pandava, is then goaded into gambling away each brother. Still the Kauravas are not satisfied by this humiliation, so they taunt Yudhishthira further into betting his wife. Against the protests of the family elders, who argue a woman cannot be put at stake, Yudhishthira puts Draupadi as a bet for the next round. When the Kauravas win, the eldest one Duryodhana, commands his younger brother Dushasana to forcefully bring her to the gathering. Dushasana drags her into the court by her hair. Drunk with power, Dushasana tries to strip Draupadi of her sari. Seeing her husbands unable or unwilling to help her, Draupadi prays to Lord Krishna to protect her. As Dushasana unwraps layers and layers of her sari, it keeps getting extended. Finally, a tired Dushasana backs off without being able to remove her clothing. Dushashana insulted Draupadi and dragged her by her hair and paid heavily with his life. That day Draupadi vowed that she would tie her hair only when they are covered with Dushashana’s blood taken out from his heart. Later Bheem, her husband killed Dushashana and brought the blood from his body to Draupadi. Satisfied, Draupadi tied her hair after they were immersed in Dushashana’s blood, when Bhima killed him and brought blood from his heart in the mahabharata war. Beautifully written and choreographed by Guru Pt. Jai Kishan Maharaj Ji. Tabla by Akhilesh Bhatt. Male voice and harmonium by Brijesh mishra. Sarangi by Ghanshyam sisodia. Female voice by Jaya bhatt. Performed by Damini Bisht.