Before we start, we would like to present a letter to Maharishi Ved Vyas by ajatshatrupriyaaa asking the questions that we all want to, the questions we are searching answers for.

TO THE NARRATOR OF THE EPIC ,

PRANIPAT MAHARISHI VED VYAS .

PLEASE DON'T GET ANGRY ON WHAT I AM GOING TO SAY OR ASK YOU ,  BUT WHAT TO DO ? I WANT SOME ANSWERS . .

WHY WERE YOU SO PARTIAL ? TO THE LOVELY AND GREAT SONS OF PANDAVAS AND THEIR OTHER WIVES ?

WHO WAS DEVIKA ? OR HIDIMBA ? VALANDHARA ? ULUPI ? KARENUMATI ? VIJAYA ? MAURAVI ? SUTHANU ? VATSALA? 

WHO WAS YAUDHEYA ? SARVAGA ? BABRUVAHANA ?NIRAMITRA ? SUHOTRA ?SUTHANU ?

WHO WAS BHANUMATI ? LAKSHMANAA ?

WERE THEY JUST BEARERS OF SONS OR MORE ? WHO WERE THEY MAHARISHI ?

IN THE LONGEST EPIC OF THIS ARYAVRAT , YOU SHOWED EVERY EMOTION MEN POSSESSED BUT WHAT ABOUT THOSE WOMEN WHO CRIED WHEN THE BLOOD OF THEIR CHILDREN FLOWED ON THEIR CLOTHES ?

AMONG THOUSANDS OF SHLOKAS YOU GLORIFIED PANDAVAS , YOU SHOWED SHRI KRISHN AND BALRAM DAU'S SIDES WHAT ABOUT WOMEN ?

IF YOU COULD WRITE THE EXPRESSION OF KUNTI WHEN SHE INVOKED VAYU DEV , WHY COULDN'T YOU WRITE EXPRESSIONS OF KARENUMATI WHEN HER FATHER DIED IN THE RAJSUYA YAGNA  OF HER OWN FAMILY ? DID ANYONE APOLOGIZED TO HER ? 

 WHY COULDN'T YOU NARRATE ONE SHLOKA EACH TO THE WIVES OF PANDAVAS ?WHAT WOULD HAVE ONE SHLOKA MADE A DIFFERENCE TO YOU MAHARISHI ?

ONE SHLOKA TO OTHER WIVES OF PANDAVAS AND THEIR CHILDREN , HOW WOULD IT HAVE MATTERED TO YOU ?

WHO WAS YAUDHEYA MAHARISHI ? WHO WAS HE ? WAS HE REALLY SAMRAT YUDHISHTHIRA'S CHILD OR JUST A NAME ? WHEN WAS HE BORN ? WAS HE SAFE AT HIS MATERNAL HOME AFTER THAT WRETCHED SABHA ? DID HE GOT ANY LETTER FROM HIS FATHER ? WAS HE CALLED A PRINCE ONLY OR SON OF THE GAMBLER ? WAS HE BULLIED ? DID HE MARRY ? DID HE MET HIS OTHER BROTHERS ? DID HE DIED IN THE WAR OR HE WAS ALIVE ? 

YAUDHEYA , SARVAGA , NIRAMITRA , SUHOTRA - WEREN'T THEY WORTHY ENOUGH TO GET SOME RESPECT IN THE EPIC ? WERE THEY NOT THE CHILDREN OF MIGHTY WARRIORS ?OR WAS IT THAT THEY WERE NOT DIRECTLY CONNECTED TO SHRI KRISHNA ?

THEY WERE NOT MERE CHARACTERS . THEY WERE CHILDREN OF PANDAVAS AND YOU NEGLECTED THEM . . . . .

WHY COULDN'T YOU WRITE ONE SHLOKA PRAISING DRAUPADI'S BOND WITH EACH PANDAVPATNI SO THAT NO BODY HAS TO QUESTION HER BEHAVIOUR WITH THE CO- WIVES OF HER HUSBANDS ?

SO THAT  NOBODY BLAMES SUBHADRA WHO SLEPT IN MID OF THE NARRATION OF CHAKRAVYUH . .SO THAT WE DON'T HAVE TO GIVE PROOFS ABOUT THE EXISTENCE OF THE PANDAVAPATNIAS' . . 

HOW WOULD IT HAVE MATTERED MAHARISHI ? HOW WOULD IT HAVE MATTERED TO YOU IF YOU WOULD HAVE PRAISED THEM ?

WAS YAUDHEYA TRUTHFUL LIKE AJATSHATRU ? WAS SARVAGA AS STRONG AS HIS FATHER ? WAS NIRAMITRA FINEST HORSERIDER LIKE HIS FATHER ? DID SUHOTRA ALSO KNEW ABOUT INTUITIONS OR STARS LIKE SAHDEV ? HOW WOULD BE SUTHANU - ONE WHO WAS BORN BY THE UNION OF FIRE AND WATER -  WAS SHE ALSO BLAMED TO BE A DAUGHTER OF  . . . . . . everyone knows . . 

WHY DOES ANYBODY HAS TO QUESTION CHASTISITY OF WOMEN OF THE GREATEST EPIC ? VIRGINITY IS OF MIND AND THOUGHTS MAHARISHI AND NOT OF JUST HOW MANY RELATIONSHIPS WOMEN HAVE WITH MEN . DRAUPADI WAS FAITHFUL TO HER FIVE HUSBAND , EQUALLY THAT'S WHY SHE GOT THE TITLE OF A PANCHKANYA . SHE FEL DOWN BECUASE SHE COULDN'T BE WIDOWED . . . NOT BECAUSE SHE WAS PARTIAL . . .SHE WAS HEART OF 5 BODIES , ONE SOUL  . 
MATA KUNTI DIDN'T HAD FEELINGS FOR SURYA , YAM , VAYU OR INDRA OR HOW COULD SHE GET A PLACE AMONG PANCHKANYA'S WHO REMOVES GREATEST SIN ?

HOW DID MAURAVI FELT WHEN BARBARIK WAS REMOVED FROM BATTLEFIELD BY THE LORD ?? DID SHE CRIED AT GHATOTKACH'S DEATH , HOW DID SHE HANDLED HERSELF AFTER THE LOSS OF ANJANAPARVAN ON THE SAME DAY ??? WAS SHE OKAY ??

A MERE SHLOKA , TWO THREE PAGES MORE . HOW WOULD IT HAVE MATTERED TO YOU ??? VIGHNAHARTA WHEN BROKE HIS TOOTH TO WRITE YOUR EPIC YOU MUST HAVE TOLD HIM SOME MORE SHLOKAS . . HE WOULDN'T HAVE FELT OFFENDED . 

DIDN'T MAURAVI GOT UPSET WHEN PEOPLE NEGLECT HER CHILDREN AND HUSBAND CLAIMING TO HAVE ALL POWERS OF RAKSHASA ?? ? YES , DO YOU KNOW THAT , BHEEM'S LOST FAMILY OF WOODS IS CLAIMED NOT BE WARRIORS COZ THEY HAD POWERS . . . . BUT I ASK YOU DOES A MOTHER'S HEART ALSO HAVE THOSE POWERS ????

HOW MUST HAVE DEVIKA LIVED ?WAS SHE SAFE AS SHE HERSELF WAS WIFE OF YUDHISHTHIRA ?YOU SHOULD HAVE NARRATED A SHLOKA BETWEEN DEVIKA AND DRAUPADI AFTER DYUT SO THAT NOBODY SAYS THAT IT WOULD HAVE BEEN GOOD IF SAMRAT WOULD HAVE STAKED HIS SECOND WIFE . . . . . YES , THEY DON'T CARE ABOUT WOMEN BEING DISROBED . . .ALL THEY CARE IS ABOUT  PROTAGONIST BEING SAVED 

HOW DID CHITRANGADA FELT AT THE TIME HER SON KILLED HIS FATHER ??

HOW DID HIDIMBA ACCEPTED HER FATE BEING THE FIRST DAUGHTER IN LAW OF SAMRAT PANDU  ??

WHY DIDN'T THE PANDAVA PAVILION CRIED ON GHATOTKACH'S DEATH ???? WASN'T HE THEIR CHILD ?

HOW DID VALANDHARA FACED BHANUMATI AND LAKSHMANAA ?? HOW WOULD SHE HAVE LIVED IN KASHI THAT WAS SOMEWHAT IN CONTROL OF DURYODHANA? 

HOW DID KARENUMATI LIVED AT HER PLACE ??

HOW DID VIJAYA HAVE CONSOLED SAHDEV WHO KNEW EVERYTHING BUT STILL COULDN'T DO ANYTHING ??

VATSALA - WHO WAS SHE MAHARISHI ??? WASN'T SHE WORTHY IN THE EPIC ???OR ONLY PROGENY GIVERS ARE IMPORTANT TO YOU ?????????

THE FAULT ISN'T YOURS . THIS IS A SOCIETY WHERE A WOMAN IS BLAMED FOR ABANDONING A CHILD NOT THE FATHER . . . .NEGLECTING THE FACT THAT IT WAS A MOTHER WHO GOT KAVACH AND KUNDAL BY PRAYERS . IT WAS THE SAME  MOTHER WHO MADE ALL FIVE NOT JUST THREE  . . .

 WHERE A WOMAN IS BLAMED FOR A WAR WHEN THE INSULT OF HERS WAS THE LAST NAIL IN THE COFFIN OF ADHARAMA . .

WHEN THE BOON WAS OF A WOMAN , WHEN SHE NURTURED THE FIVE WARRIORS ALONE BEING A WIDOW WHY WERE HER CHILDREN CALLED BY THEIR FATHER'S NAME NOT MOTHERS ?

IF YOU COULD WRITE THAT PANCHALI WAS SMILING AFTER KNOWING THE FACT THAT SHE WILL BE COMMON WIFE OF FIVE WARRIORS (huh. . . . , SHE KNEW THE TRUTH) WHY COULDN'T YOU WRITE HOW GANDHARI FELT AT HER SON'S DEATH RATHER THAN SAYING THAT SHE CURSED NARAYAN'S DYNASTY - AND THAT WAS ALL HER GRIEF ABOUT . . . 

WHY DIDN'T YOU TOLD SOMETHING ABOUT SUTHANU OR LAKSHMANAA THE DAUGHTERS OF YUDHISHTHIRA AND DURYODHANAWHO WERE DEFEATED AT THE TIME OF THAT CURSED SABHA  ?

FIVE MEN WERE PANDAVAS , THE GREATEST , BECAUSE THEY HAD SELFLESS WOMEN WITH THEM , BE IT A MOTHER , A WIFE , A SISTER , A DAUGHTER . . WHO SACRIFICED FOR DHARMA . . .. .. ..

Sighs , Maharishi Ved Vyas I am sorry if I questioned you wrongly but please . . . . Why couldn't you narrate ???

I know i wouldn't be completely right , i would have written something wrong above but one thing i know that not everything is wrong .

I know I am a kaliyug girl but I have the heart of woman , I want answers and here I am leaving this letter under the moonlight , one more empty letter i am leaving to get the answers , i hope Chandra dev will protect this letter to glorify those who glorified his dynasty . 

PRANIPAT 

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Next we'll come up with various events of the Mahabharata from point of view of various women.