{"id":154,"date":"2026-06-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/samrudhikadam.in\/MyStories\/?p=154"},"modified":"2026-09-07T14:23:49","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T14:23:49","slug":"the-fivefold-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/samrudhikadam.in\/MyStories\/2026\/06\/06\/the-fivefold-marriage\/","title":{"rendered":"THE FIVEFOLD MARRIAGE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After Drupada accepted the marriage of Draupadi with the Pandavas, priests were called, Vedic hymns were chanted, and the sacred fires were prepared. The marriage was conducted according to traditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Draupadi was married to the five Pandavas sequentially according to proper rituals over consecutive days; she was first married to Yudhishthira, then Bhima, then Arjuna, then Nakula, and finally Sahadeva.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The priests blessed Draupadi, saying that she would regain her maiden purity each day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rules were then established to maintain harmony among the brothers. The rule was that Draupadi would stay with one Pandava for a year and during that time, no other brother should enter her private chamber. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Loved this story? Read it in the book!<\/strong><br>This story is a part of my published book, <em>Epic Tales with Samrudhi<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>To get your copy, feel free to mail me at<\/strong> <a href=\"mailto:hello@samrudhikadam.in\"><strong>hello@samrudhikadam.in<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Drupada accepted the marriage of Draupadi with the Pandavas, priests were called, Vedic hymns were chanted, and the sacred fires were prepared. The marriage was conducted according to traditions. Draupadi was married to the five Pandavas sequentially according to proper rituals over consecutive days; she was first married to Yudhishthira, then Bhima, then Arjuna, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/samrudhikadam.in\/MyStories\/2026\/06\/06\/the-fivefold-marriage\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;THE FIVEFOLD MARRIAGE&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/samrudhikadam.in\/MyStories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/samrudhikadam.in\/MyStories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/samrudhikadam.in\/MyStories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samrudhikadam.in\/MyStories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samrudhikadam.in\/MyStories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/samrudhikadam.in\/MyStories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":231,"href":"https:\/\/samrudhikadam.in\/MyStories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions\/231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/samrudhikadam.in\/MyStories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samrudhikadam.in\/MyStories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samrudhikadam.in\/MyStories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}