Why Bhishma, Dronacharya, kripacharya, dhritarashtra and other elders , were quite when sons of Dhritarashtra.

Question

misbehaved with Draupadi, except Vidura? why Vidura retaliated and not others Assembled elders?

Answer 1

Draupadi Vastraharan-
Bhishma, Dronacharya, kripacharya, dhritarashtra and other elders , were quite when sons of Dhritarashtra started misbehaving with Draupadi, deliberately using the word "duty". They did not open their mouth duty bound.

Duryodhan ordered Dusshasana to drag Draupadi by her hair to the royal court before the great assembly of people and then to disrobe her completely. Karna calling her a public woman whose being clothed or naked is immaterial. Draupadi looked at all elders in the court - Dhritarashtra, Bheeshma, Drona, Kripa and Vidura - with her eyes shouting for help. But all elders were silent. The subjects were stunned. Her husbands sat with their heads bowed. Draupadi had a marvelous blend of intensity that suits kshatriyas and forgiveness that fits devotees. She was very intelligent and knowledgeable. She had a brilliant mind, was utterly "one-in-herself" and did not hesitate in reprimanding the Kuru elders for countenancing wickedness. When Dusshasana was dragging her by the hair to the court, she ridiculed him to show his prowess against her husbands. She also boldly reprimanded the elders present in the court and appealed to them to do justice. She cried out to her silent husbands. But nobody came for help. Finding no response, with quicksilver presence of mind she seizes upon a social ritual to wrest some moments of respite from pillaging hands.

Her speech drips with sarcasm. The elders whom she ceremoniously salutes, deliberately using the word "duty", have remained silent in the face of Vidura's exhortation to do their duty and protect the royal daughter-in-law...

Answer 2

Because they accepted charity and ate grains cooked by Duryadhana and therefore owed their loyalty to him. Vidura lived a simple life independent of Duryodhana, although he was living in the same capital city. Anyway all these maharatis paid dearly for keeping quite when they should have said something, especially Bhisma who was a Mahajana.

Answer 3

I wish I knew because that makes me very angry that they just sat there. I can't imagine it. Though I see it happen all the time in Tempe's when someone is being interrogated or mistreated and no one says anything (even the higher ups) it makes no sense. And the one who does say something to stand for Truth they get walked all over as if they are wrong. Nonsense.

Answer 4

go to Mahabharata & find out your self.

krishna, this is all your LILA.