Her husband, Yudhisthira, the paragon of virtue and honour, has just staked all his possessions, his half of the kingdom, his brothers, himself and then Draupadi in a gambling match with his cruel cousin Duryodhana. She tweets a pivotal episode of the ancient Hindu epic Mahabharata, which was probably composed sometime in the last few centuries before the Common Era, a woman called Draupadi is dragged into a royal dicing hall. She has worked extensively on narrative materials from Hindu, Buddhist and Jain traditions. Her main research interest is the role of stories in the construction and communication of religious ideas in early India. Naomi Appleton is Senior Lecturer in Asian Religions in the School of Divinity at the University of Edinburgh.
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