Draupadi's Swayamvara Karna's Rejection and the Debate on Interpolation
King Draupad organised a swayamvar for his daughter Draupadi.
Dhristdyumna addresses all the suitors present. There would be five arrows, one bow and an eye in a machine. The skilled warrior who hits the target would get his sister's hand in marriage.
Mighty kings and princes fail to make it.
No one suspects that an impoverished Brahmin would string the bow leave alone strike the centre of the eye.
Arjun was disguised as a Brahmin. When he decides to participate, the rest present wonder and exclaim,
“ If skilled warriors like Karna and Shalya could not string the bow, wonder how a Brahmin with no knowledge of arms would! ““
There is an interpolation in some versions of Mahabharata that Draupadi refused to marry a suta.
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