Following is the list of the wives of each of the Pandavas, apart from Draupadi.
Pandavas with Draupadi
Yudhistira.
Married Devika, the daughter of Govasana of the Saivya tribe, and begat upon her a son called Yaudheya.
Bhima.
Balandhara(daughter of the king of Kasi),Chedi king Sisupala’s sisterand Hidimbi , a Rakshasi.
Bhima had three sons from his three wives – Ghatotkach from Hidimbi, Sutasoma from Draupadi, and Sarvaang from Balandhara
Arjuna.
The Naga Ulupi, the princess Chitrangada of Manipur, Krishna’s sister Subhadra during this pilgrimage.
But in Tamil retellings of the Mahabharata, he married totally seven women.
One of them was a warrior woman called Ali who refused to marry him but Arjuna was so besotted that he sought Krishna’s help. Krishna turned him into a snake and he slipped into Ali’s bed at night and frightened her to become his wife.
Some say he forced her to be his wife as he managed to spend the night in bed with her in the form of a snake.
He also married Chitrangi, a Pandya Princess(Tamil Literature).
‘Wait, I have promised his mother, my aunt, that I shall bear with his 100 insults.”
Bhima,
‘What if he stops at 99’
Krishna,
‘It is his fate that he completes 100 insults and that I should kill him’
Sishupala completes his 100 insults and Krishna kills him
I am reproducing a sample of Insults.
Read the original in Vyasa Bharata and Magha’s Sishupala vadha.
If one reads the original, one would that this is a Tribute to Krihsna, called Nindha Stuhthi.
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Sisupala remained in his seat, but when he became angry at Krsna’s being honored, Sisupala stood up suddenly, and, raising his hand, began to speak very strongly and fearlessly against Lord Krsna. He spoke in such a way that Lord Krsna could hear him very distinctly.
“Ladies and gentlemen, I can appreciate now the statement of the Vedasthat, after all, time is the predominating factor.
In spite of all endeavors to the contrary, the time element executes its own plan without opposition.
For example, one may try his best to live, but when the time for death comes, no one can check it.
I see here that although there are many stalwart personalities present in this assembly, the influence of time is so strong that they have been misled by the statement of a boy who has foolishly spoken about Krsna.
There are many learned sages and elderly persons present, but still they have accepted the statement of a foolish boy.
This means that by the influence of time, even the intelligence of such honored persons as are present in this meeting can be misdirected.
I fully agree with the respectable persons present here that they are competent enough to select the personality who can be first worshiped, but I cannot agree with the statement of a boy like Sahadeva, who has spoken so highly about Krsna and has recommended that Krsna is fit to accept the first worship in the sacrifice.
I can see that in this meeting there are many personalities who have undergone great austerities, who are highly learned, and who have performed many penances.
By their knowledge and direction, they can deliver many persons who are suffering from the pangs of material existence.
There are great rsis here whose knowledge has no bounds, as well as many self-realized persons and brahmanasalso, and therefore I think that any one of them could have been selected for the first worship because they are worshipable even by the great demigods, kings and emperors.
I cannot understand how you could have selected this cowherd boy, Krsna, and have left aside all these other great personalities. I think Krsna to be no better than a crow–how can He be fit to accept the first worship in this great sacrifice?
“We cannot even ascertain as yet to which caste this Krsna belongs or what His actual occupational duty is.
” Actually, Krsna does not belong to any caste, nor does He have to perform any occupational duty. It is stated in the Vedas that the Supreme Lord has nothing to do as His prescribed duty. Whatever has to be done on His behalf is executed by His different energies.
Sisupala continued: “Krsna does not belong to a high family.
He is so independent that no one knows His principles of religious life.
It appears that He is outside the jurisdiction of all religious principles.
He always acts independently, not caring for the Vedic injunctions and regulative principles.
Therefore He is devoid of all good qualities.” Sisupala indirectly praised Krsna by saying that He is not within the jurisdiction of Vedic injunctions.
This is true because He is the Supreme Personality of Godhead. That He has no qualities means that Krsna has no material qualities, and because He is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, He acts independently, not caring for conventions or social or religious principles.
Sisupala continued: “Under these circumstances, how can He be fit to accept the first worship in the sacrifice?
Krsna is so foolish that He has left Mathura, which is inhabited by highly elevated persons following the Vedic culture, and He has taken shelter in the ocean, where there is not even talk of the Vedas.
Instead of living openly, He has constructed a fort within the water and is living in an atmosphere where there is no discussion of Vedic knowledge. And whenever He comes out of the fort, He simply harasses the citizens like a dacoit, thief or rogue.
The Kings of Chola and Pandya, brought numberless jars of gold filled with fragrant sandal juice from the hills of Malaya, and loads of sandal and aloe wood from the Dardduras hills, and many gems of great brilliancy and fine cloths inlaid with gold. Singhalas gave those best of sea-born gems called the lapis lazuli, and heaps of pearls also, and hundreds of coverlets for elephants (2:51).
Bhishmaka, the mighty king of the Bhojas (of Vidarbha Kingdom) who governs a fourth part of the world, by his learning conquered the Pandyas and the Kratha-Kausikas (2:14).
Having met with Rukmi (of Vidarbha Kingdom), Karna, repaired to Pandya and the mountain, Sri. And by fighting, he made Karala Kerala?), king Nila, Venudari’s son, and other best of kings living in the southern direction pay tribute (3:252)
Having brought king Nila of Avanti Kingdom under his sway thus, the victorious son of Madri (Sahadeva) then went further towards the south. He brought the king of Tripura under his sway.
And next turning his forces against the Paurava kingdom, he vanquished and reduced to subjection the monarch thereof. And the prince, after this, with great efforts brought Akriti, the king of Saurashtra and preceptor of the Kausikas under his sway.
The virtuous prince, while staying in the kingdom of Saurashtra sent an ambassador unto king Rukmin, the son of Bhishmaka within the territories ofBhojakata.
And the monarch along with his son, remembering their relationship with Vasudeva Krishna, cheerfully accepted, the sway of the son ofPandu.
He marched further to the south and reduced to subjection, Surparaka and Talakata, and the Dandakas also.
The Kuru warrior then vanquished and brought under his subjection numberless kings of the Mlechchha tribe living on the sea coast, and the Nishadas and the cannibals and even the Karnapravarnas, and those tribes also called the Kalamukhas (dark faced) who were a cross between human beings and Rakshasas, and the whole of the Cole (Chola or Kolwa) mountains, and also Surabhi-patna, and the island called the Copper island, and the mountain called Ramaka.
He having brought under subjection king Timingila, conquered a wild tribe known by the name of the Kerakas.
The son of Pandu also conquered the town of Sanjayanti and the country of the Pashandas and the Karanatakas by means of his messengers alone, and made all of them pay tributes to him.
The hero brought under his subjection and exacted tributes from the Paundrayas (Pandyas?) and the Dravidas along with theUdrakeralas and the Andhras and the Talavanas, the Kalingas and the Ushtrakarnikas, and also the delightful city of Atavi and that of the Yavanas.
And, He having arrived at the sea-shore, then dispatched with great assurance messengers unto the illustrious Vibhishana, the grandson of Pulastya and the ruler of Lanka (2:30).
Vasudeva Krishna slew king Pandya by striking his breast against his, and moved down the Kalingas in battle (5:48). The Cholas and the Pandyas were mentioned as vanquished by Krishna at (7:11).
The mighty Sarangadhwaja, the king of the Pandyas, has white steeds, decked with armour set with stones of lapis lazuli.
His country was invaded and his father was slain by Krishna in battle. Obtaining weapons then from Bhishma and Drona, Bala Rama and Kripa, prince Sarangadhwaja became, in weapons, the equal of Rukmi and Karna and Arjuna and Achyuta.
He then desired to destroy the city of Dwaraka and subjugate the whole world.
Wise friends, however, from desire of doing him good, counselled him against that course.
Giving up all thoughts of revenge, he is now ruling his own dominions. Steeds that were all of the hue of the Atrusa flower bore a hundred and forty thousand principle car-warriors that followed that Sarangadhwaja, the king of the Pandyas, opposing Drona in Kurukshetra War.(7:23).
A Pandya king named Sarangadwaja (alternatively Malayadwaja) is mentioned as participating in the Kurukshetra War, siding with the Pandavas.
It is not clear if Pandyas had any tribal links with the Pandavas of north-India.
This kingdom existed in the southern part of modern day Tamil Nadu state of India, to the south of Kaveri River.
Their capital was Madhura on the banks of the Vaigai river.
The name Madhura resembles the Mathura of northern India indicative of a connection with the Yadavas who once ruled at Mathura.
Pandyas, Cholas and Keralas were also mentioned in Tamil literature complementing their mention in the Sanskrit literature (constituted by Ramayana, Mahabharata, Puranas and Vedas).
By looking at the descriptions of the land of Tamils, especially of Pandyas, one is made to conclude that this land mass was in the submerged continent of Lemuria.
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