Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c19.117

v2.c19.117

While now this fair one feels no pity even for her husband, and is quite ready to give him up to death, just because her curiosity demands satisfaction, and while many another woman in the Epic feels none for other reasons, yet we are told a few times, too, of the woman's pity. In the account of what happened after Yudhishṭhira's disastrous dice-game we find: "When the wives of Dhṛitarāshṭra's sons learned of all this, how Draupadī went to the gaming-house and was there dragged about,² they all wept loud and blamed the Kurus greatly.