[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [A Classical Dictionary of Hindu Mythology and Religion, Geography, History, and Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.dowson-1879) › c5.2206.2 # A Classical Dictionary of Hindu Mythology and Religion, Geography, History, and Literature c5.2206.2 A Classical Dictionary of Hindu Mythology and Religion, Geography, History, and Literature c5.2206.2 - **Language:** English ### [c5.2206.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.dowson-1879.c5.2206.2) When Draupadī had been won at the swayam-vara, Yudhi-shthira, the eldest of the five brothers, was requested by his juniors to make her his wife, but he desired that she should become the wife of Arjuna, by whose prowess she had been won. Through the words of their mother, Kuntī, and the decision of the sage Vyāsa, the princess became the common wife of the five brothers. An arrangement was made that Draupadī should dwell in turn with the five brothers, passing two days in the separate house of each, and that under pain of exile for twelve years no one of the brothers but the master of the house should enter while Draupadī was staying in it. The arms of the family were kept in the house of Yudhi-shthira, and an alarm of robbery being raised, Arjuna rushed there to procure his weapons while Draupadī was present. He thus incurred the pain of exile, and departed, though Yudhi-shthira endeavoured to dissuade him by arguing that the elder brother of a fatherless family stood towards his juniors in the position of a father. After the return of the Pāndavas from exile and their establishment at Indra-prastha, the rule of Yudhi-shthira is described as having been most excellent and prosperous. The Rāja “ruled his country with great justice, protecting his subjects as his own sons, and subduing all his enemies round about, so that every man was without fear of war or disturbance, and gave his whole mind to the performance of every religious duty. - [Previous: c5.2206.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.dowson-1879.c5.2206.1) - [Next: c5.2206.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.dowson-1879.c5.2206.3) - [Up: c5.2206](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.dowson-1879.c5.2206) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.dowson-1879.c5.2206.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.dowson-1879.c5.2206.2) · Pramāṇa