KRISHNA'S VOW

They were filled with righteous indignation when they heard of Duryodhana's perfidy and cried out that surely the earth would drink the blood of such wicked people.

Draupadi approached Sri Krishna and, in a voice drowned in tears and broken with sobs,told the story of her wrongs. She said: "I was dragged to the assembly when I had but a single garment on my body.

The sons of Dhritarashtra insulted memost outrageously and gloated over my agony. They thought that I had become their slave and accosted me and treated me asone.

Even Bhishma and Dhritarashtra forgot my birth and breeding and my relationship to them. O Janardhana, even my husbands did not protect me from the jeers and the ribald insults of those foul ruffians.

Bhima's bodily strength and Arjuna's Gandiva were alike of no avail. Under such supreme provocation even weaklings would have found strength and courage to strike the vile insulter dead.

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