Nilesh Oak wrote:
Correct. I did say that 'Draupaid disrobing incident and subsequent supply of Sarees by Krishna' may not have been in the Vyasa Bharata.
So what we have as "Vyasa Bharata" today does show the incident, but it may have been inserted by somebody later? Do we have the *original* Vyasa Bharata in Sanskrit, or only commentaries or translations?
Nilesh Oak wrote:
(3) Draupadi is pulled into the court (ekavastra and rajaswala) by Dushasan. By this time, all Pandavas have lost with each round of Dyuta (game of dice) and now it is turn of Draupadi. Draupadi asks all those present in the court..."If Yudhishthir has lost himself first, does he have right to wage Draupadi for the next round of game of dice?". All the members of the court become silent. ................At this point..text/verses related to Draupadi Vastraharan begin.. with Duryodhana asking Dushasan to make her nude and she praying to Govinda...etc." After this incident the text of MBH resumes.. with Vidura asking the court members ....to answer Draupadi's question. Vidur or any of the members (including Pandava) ...none of them refer to the mysterious/amazing/magical incident that took place right in front of them all.
This could also be a variation of cognitive dissonance? When something this amazing takes place, that shows an entire assembly in bad light as having gone against the "will of God" to such an extent that God himself had to intervene, it is also possible that all the folks there simply tuned out the incident and pretended like it never happened. A very rough example would be the treatment of Modi by the p-secs. First it is "there is nothing amazing about Gujarat's development." When that statement is proven wrong, the entire establishment simply dumps the statement as if it had never been made, and moves on to "malnutrition." When the stats are presented to disprove that, it becomes "the model cannot be scaled up to the rest of India." The malnutrition argument is forgotten as if it never even happened.
This is just a rough analogy. The human mind, however, is very capable of great deviousness, and certainly, an entire assembly is capable of tuning out a miraculous deed if it shows them in bad light.
I'm just trying to gauge the weight of the evidence in favor of your statement WRT the disrobing incident.