Explain the significance of Draupadi question in 'The Dicing' of Mahabharata?
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The Mahabharata, the longest Sanskrit epic, is a story of two sets of paternal first cousin who became the bitter rivals with each other. The epic revolves around the struggle for the throne of Hastinapura. The two collateral branches of the family that participate in the struggle are the Kauravas and the Pandavas. The Kauravas were collectively the hundred sons of the blind king Dhritarashtra and the Pandavas were the five sons of Pandu. The five brothers named Yudhistira(eldest son), Arjuna ,Bhima , Nakula and Sahadeva were always obedient and dutiful. Draupadi was the common wife of the five Pandavas. The Kauravas behaved viciously and brutally towards the Pandavas in many ways. Their malice displayed itself when they took advantage of the eldest Pandava, Yudhistira in a game of dice.
Living in the new territory of Indraprastha , Yudhistira turns his poor land into a wealthy kingdom, and declaress himself King of Kings . Duryodhana, the eldest of the Kauravas , is jealous and humiliated on his visit to the magnificent palace . He mistakes a glass floor for a pool, then later falls into a pool thinking it is glass . Draupadi and Bhima laugh at him . He returns home bent on devising their destruction.