In the Mahabharata, what did Yudhisthira stake and lose during the game of dice with Duryodhana?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option 4 - All of the above
Given options:
Option 1- His chariots and elephants
Option 2- His brothers and himself
Option 3- His gold and treasury
Option 4- All of the above (Answer)
During the course of the long-drawn rivalry between the Kauravas and the Pandavas, Duryodhana invited Yudhisthira to a game of dice. The latter, who was deceived by his rival, staked his gold, elephants, chariots, slaves, army, treasury, kingdom, the property of his subjects, his brothers and finally himself and lost all. Then he staked their common wife Draupadi and lost her too. Issues of ownership, foregrounded in stories such as this one (Source 11), also figure in the Dharmasutras and Dharmashastras.