List some similarities that Karve points out between Sita and Draupadi

Anant Sadashiv Karve, in his book "Yuganta: The End of an Epoch", points out several similarities between the characters of Sita from the Ramayana and Draupadi from the Mahabharata. Some of these similarities include:

Both Sita and Draupadi are devoted to their husbands and are willing to follow them through all trials and tribulations.
Both women are put through tests of their purity and virtue, and are ultimately vindicated.
Both are abducted and have to be rescued by their husbands and their allies.

List some similarities that Karve points out between Sita and Draupadi

Both women are powerful figures in their own right, capable of inspiring loyalty and devotion in those around them.
Both Sita and Draupadi are powerful symbols of the ideal woman, embodying virtues such as loyalty, devotion, purity, and courage.
Both women are also victims of patriarchal societies in which they are reduced to being mere chattel and have to suffer in silence.
Both women are also goddesses in their own right and have many devotees who worship them.
Both are also associated with fire and have to pass through fire as a test of their purity.

What are the similarities between Sita and Draupadi

Both Sita and Draupadi are devoted to their husbands and are willing to follow them through all trials and tribulations.
Both women are put through tests of their purity and virtue, and are ultimately vindicated.
Both are abducted and have to be rescued by their husbands and their allies.
Both women are powerful figures in their own right, capable of inspiring loyalty and devotion in those around them.
Both Sita and Draupadi are powerful symbols of the ideal woman, embodying virtues such as loyalty, devotion, purity, and courage.
Both women are also victims of patriarchal societies in which they are reduced to being mere chattel and have to suffer in silence.
Both women are also goddesses in their own right and have many devotees who worship them.
Both are also associated with fire and have to pass through fire as a test of their purity.

There is a physical fire and a spiritual fire. Satsanga or attending holy congregations is one method by which our internal fire is ignited. “So yagna can be a physical yagna like the one that is invoked for rituals, another is ‘Maun Yagna’, a silent yagna like the one between Adi Shankaracharya and his disciples, where pupils learn from his silence. Illustrious exponent of Ramayana, Morari Bapu explained that another is ‘Mukhar Satsanga’ where words are used. Then there is a discussion where a free flow of thoughts is allowed even from devotees – that is called ‘Mukta Satsanga.

Staying on the topic of yagna, Morari Bapu then went on to speak about Draupadi on Day 59 of Hari Katha, saying she was born out of holy fire. He then compared her to Sita, who was a blessing from earth’s womb. Drawing similarities and distinctions, he enlisted several points for these two feminine personalities who are central to Hindu epics and beliefs.

List some similarities that Karve points out between Sita and Draupadi

During the event, Ram looks up towards the gallery where Sita is sitting with friends and is highly agitated about the outcome. The condition to win her hand was that Ram needed to break Lord Shiva’s bow. To win Draupadi, Arjun looks down at the water to catch a reflection of the fish-eye that he needs to pierce with an arrow. Bapu interpreted the breaking of the bow to discarding the idea of war while piercing a target as symbolic of battle.

Ram attends the event as a prince of Ayodhya, so he is revealed and lauded while Arjun is in hiding and comes in the garb of a Brahmin. Eventually, Ram and Sita unite in matrimony but in Draupadi’s case she needed to submit to five husbands.

In Janaki’s Swayamvar, Lord Shiva is in imperceptible form of the bow and Sita prays to him to help make the weapon light, in Draupadi’s Swayamvar Krishna is physically present.

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