Her elder brother Balaram is enraged when he learns of the abduction, but Krishna pacifies him.Īlso read: Our daughters will see Sita as a single mother and Draupadi as a #Metoo warriorīhagawat Puran: Consenting abduction and introduction of Duryodhan In all of this, we know nothing about Subhadra’s consent, or who she would have chosen in the swayamvar had the decision been left to her. Figure 1 | The Critical Edition of Mahabharata The word used here is ‘ aropyat’, which is strangely the same word that Valmiki used to describe the abduction of Sita in Ramayana. With Krishna’s approval, Arjun abducts Subhadra (fig. 1) because he doesn’t know what Subhadra’s decision in the swayamvar would be. However, marriage by abduction is also a possibility for Arjun (fig. Krishna replies that swayamvar is the acceptable form of marriage for Kshatriyas. His desires are awakened ( kandarpa samajayata), and he asks her brother Krishna about her. It begins with Arjun coming to Dwarka during a festival, and seeing Subhadra. The ‘Subhadra Haran’ episode in the Mahabharata is brief. Subhadra’s voice has been silenced and all the wrongdoings against her have either been disregarded or worse, romanticised.
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