Draupadi's Humiliation

Draupadi began to run towards Gandhari's room, but Dushasana blocked her path. Callously, he caught her by the hair and began dragging her towards the assembly hall. She resisted and begged him to let her go, but her cries were in vain. 

Dushasana dragged her to where Duryodhana was seated in the middle of the hall. Everyone present, including the elders of the Kuru clan, watched quietly. The helpless Draupadi looked towards her husbands, the Pandavas, but they didn't even meet her gaze.

"Has righteousness completely disappeared from this earth?" she wailed. "Why is everyone mute? Why are my husbands mute? Why are Bhishma and Drona letting such atrocities happen?"

Dushasana tried to further humiliate Draupadi by calling her a slave. Karna roared with laughter, while Duryodhana eyed her maliciously. She was astounded to witness such behaviour from them.

She repeated to everyone assembled the question she had asked the soldier. "O great men of the Kuru dynasty, please answer me this: in a game of dice, is it legal for a man who has lost himself to stake his wife?"

Her question was met with a deafening silence. Finally, a conflicted Bhishma spoke up. "I cannot say whether it is legal or not. Indeed, what can one say when even Yudhishthira—hailed as Dharmaraja, the king of righteousness—stakes his wife?"