Mahabharat Katha: That terrible curse of Draupadi, which became the reason for Ghatotkacha’s death!

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Story of Mahabharata: Even today, after five thousand years, the story of Mahabharata is seen and narrated among the people. The war of Mahabharata was not between Kauravas and Pandavas, but between religion and unrighteousness. The story of Mahabharata includes many characters and their stories. Ghatotkacha was one such character in the Mahabharata war.

Ghatotkacha was the son of Pandu’s son Bhima and Hidimba’s son. He had caused great harm to the Kaurava army in the Mahabharata war. Then, at the behest of Duryodhana, Karna killed Ghatotkacha by using Devraj Indra’s ‘Amogh Shakti’ weapon, but do you know that a curse had become the reason for Ghatotkacha’s death? Let us know this story in detail.

According to the story of Mahabharata…

According to the story of Mahabharata, Ghatotkacha, son of Bhima and Hidimba, when he came to the palace of Pandavas for the first time, followed his mother’s orders and paid obeisance to other Pandavas, but he forgot to pay respect to Draupadi. He considered Draupadi to be an ordinary woman and ignored her. Its result was very frightening.

According to the Prabhas section of Skanda Purana, Draupadi was the daughter of the Panchala king and the queen of the Pandavas. She started feeling extremely insulted by this behavior of Ghatotkacha. They felt that Ghatotkacha was a demonic son, hence he did not know how to respect the elders and family norms.

Cursed Ghatotkacha in anger

After this, in anger, he told Ghatotkacha that you have insulted a queen and have forgotten your dignity in pride, hence go away, your life span will be short and you will die an untimely death without any end to the war. When Bhima came to know about this curse, he apologized to Draupadi.

After this, Draupadi’s anger subsided, but the curse that had been given could not be taken back. However, later this curse was linked to the Leela of Shri Krishna. Because killing Ghatotkacha was very necessary to save Arjun’s life and establish religion.

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