Mahabharat

Sister!

What are you doing?

I am bidding my sword goodbye.

Now, this sword will assume the form of the Almighty

and help me reform my life.

I have failed the purpose of my birth today.

No, sister.

Do not say that.

You do not know, Draupadi

but I was born to deal with weapons.

Flowers not only emit fragrance

but also look beautiful and provide seeds.

But a thorn...

A thorn is born only to prick others.

What...

What do I now, Draupadi?

The people who do not succeed in the battlefield

do they also not succeed in life, sister?

I cannot be.

If ember loses its fire it is nothing but coal.

Dark and ugly.

The person who touches it becomes dirty.

If the fire within me dies out

I too shall become so!

The way

a serpent is born with a poison pouch in its mouth

similarly, I was born with anger and vengeance.

It is a tie of my previous life, Draupadi.

If I do not hold a weapon

my entire being gets filled with dejection.

To be the General of Panchal is the basis of my life.

But

father snatched this basis from me today.

He rendered all my efforts fruitless today.

That can never happen, sister.

Father shall certainly reappoint you as the General.

I shall talk to him.

You... You need to come with me, sister.

You need to come with me.

Father will never listen to you, Draupadi.

He shall indeed listen to me.

I was born from a sacrificial fire.

I am a blessing of the Gods.

Did father not say so himself?

He shall certainly listen to me.

You need to come with me, sister.

Come with me, sister.

Let's go, sister.

Come with me, sister.

Greetings, father.

May you be invincible.

Father.

Father

sister deserves this respect.

Without any apparent reason how can you take this right

away from sister?

How dare you question your own father?

Only a father can answer the questions of his children.

In order to question one's father

a child only requires a question.

One does not require courage for it.

Quit with your rambling, Draupadi!

Shikhandini has murdered my trust.

She was supposed to slay Bhishma

but was defeated by the Kuru Princes!

How will she defeat Bhishma then?!

She has proven the prediction of the Gods to be false!

Even Dhrishtadyumna was given to you by the Gods, father.

If you have faith in Dhrishtadyumna

then why not in sister?

Because she is a woman!

Women can bear jewellery

but not swords!

Goddess Durga* is also a woman, father. *Goddess of Victory of Good over Evil, "the invincible", the most popular incarnation of Devi/Goddess Shakti--the female aspect of the divine.

She bears not one but ten weapons.

The way I am a blessing of the Gods to you