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Draupadi Swayamwara and her purpose of birth...

Episode#20 They reached King Drupada's capital Panchala on the day when he was holding Swayamwara for Princess Draupadi. Among the kings invited were Duryodhana, his brothers, Karna, Vasudev Krishna with his elder brother Balarama and other Yadavas were present too! Vasudev Krishna and Balarama were the maternal cousins of Pandavas as Kunti was Vasudev's sister. Drupada wanted to avenge Drona who had humiliated him by defeating him at the hands of his disciples a few years ago. He invoked Lord Shiva for a son who would kill Drona; performed yagna and the fire God blessed him with two children who emerged from the flames - one was Dhristhadyumna who would kill Drona and Draupadi who will marry in the Kuru family and divide them. Amba who was bestowed a boon by Lord Shiva that she will be able to take her revenge on Bhisma in her next birth was now born as a daughter to King Drupada named Shikhandi (the Oracle said that later she would acquire the male body to transform in a h