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Drupada ( Sanskrit: द्रुपद, lit. 'firm footed or pillar' [1] ), also known as Yajnasena ( Sanskrit: यज्ञसेन, lit. 'he whose army is sacrificial', IAST: Yajñasena ), [2] is the king of the southern part of Panchala Kingdom, in the Hindu epic Mahabharata. He is the father of Draupadi, the epic's lead female character.
Drupada (Sanskrit: द्रुपद, lit. firm-footed or pillar), also known as Yajnasena (Sanskrit: यज्ञसेन, lit. father of Draupadi ), was the son of King Prishata and was the Panchala king. His capital was known as Kampilya.
Drupada is one of the minor but significant characters in the Mahabharata. He is the king of Panchala for the entire timeline of the story, and he is one of the key enemies of the Kuru dynasty.
Draupadi ( Sanskrit: द्रौपदी, romanized : draupadī, lit. 'Daughter of Drupada '), also referred to as Krishnā, Panchali, and Yajnaseni, is the main female protagonist of the Hindu epic Mahabharata, and the wife of the five Pandava brothers— Yudhishthira, Bhima, Arjuna, Nakula, and Sahadeva. [1] .
King of the Pañchāla province in Bharata. He was a staunch ally of the Pāṇḍavas, respected as the senior most king among their allies. He formed an enmity with Droṇa after the latter had come to him for charity and had been refused. Droṇa finally killed him in the Kurukṣetra war.
Drupada was a boyhood friend of Drona. He once promised him half his kingdom but then refused to do so. Drona demanded as a fee from the Pandavas und Kauravas that they destroy Drupada.
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pillar; coloum; monument. the king of the Pāñcālas, who was the son of Pŗşata, and the father of Dhŗşţadyumna, Śikhand i, and Draupadī, and the father-in-law of the five Pānd avas through their marriage to Draupadī.
