Polyandry is not very common in Sanskrit literature. While it was common for a man to have multiple wives, a woman having multiple husbands was rare. The Mahabharata remains a rare exception in this ...

Some eight hundred years ago, around the time that the Bhakti Movement was coming to full flower in south India, an unusual temple was raised on a rocky ridge in the centre of the southern peninsula.

In the latest episode of Mahabharat, Duryodhan asks Ashwathama to kill the Pandavas. Ashwathama, Kripacharya and Kritavarma arrive at the Pandava camp at midnight and find Dhristadyumna and Draupadi's ...

Every generation of Indian storytellers has writers who are inexorably drawn to some of its most ancient stories. In recent years, there has been a flowering of retellings of the Ramayana and ...

These two animated tales draw from the ancient Indian Sanskrit epic the Mahabharatha telling the stories of Princess Draupadi and the beautiful Shakuntala The common wife of the five Pandava brothers ...

Bipasha Basu, who has essayed different roles, is now keen to play mythological character Draupadi. "I would love to play the character of Draupadi. In fact, I got an offer but right now it's hanging ...

The name means one who is steady in battle. Nakula was the fourth of the five Pandava brothers. It means mongoose. Draupadi: A patronymic, derived from the word Drupada, which means 'pillar'.