silentwalk

Draupadi, a beautiful and intelligent daughter of King Drupada, was waiting with a garland in the court of King Drupad on the day of her Svayamvara (a system of marriage where girl has complete freedon to choose her husband). Drupada has kept the contest to test the best of the shooters to whom his daughter can marry. The contest was regarding shooting at a right hand side eye of a moving fish hangged up onto the celling by looking in the water kept on the floor exactly below the hangged moving fish. Many royal people gathered for this ceremony. Pandavas also came to attend it. Once the contest was announced one by one many kings/young men tried to shoot at the eye but none of them was successful. One handsome young man stood up and started approaching the bow and the arrow. Draupadi was happy to see him and his confidence and thought in her mind that if he will be able to win the contest she will surely marry him. He shooted and the arrow hit the eye of the fish. Draupadi was overwhelmed. Suddenly, somebody raised the question regarding his being from a royal family. Unfortunately, he was not from a royal family.....his name was Karna, a son of sarathi (coachman)...... and Drupada refused his winning of the contest by raising the point that he has invited only young men from higher cast. Draupadi was shocked but she was firm. She told her father that he has won the contest and she want to marry him. Thus Draupadi married to Karna and later on Pandavas discovered from their mother that the same Karna was their eldest brother.