Apte Sanskrit-English Dictionary
[drupadasyāpatyaṃ strī-aṇ ṅīp] N. of the daughter of Drupada, [Page0586-c+ 62] king of the Pāñcālas. [She was won by Arjuna at her Svayam- vara ceremony, and when he and his brothers returned home they told their mother that they had that day made a great acquisition. Whereupon the mother said “Well, then, my dear children, divide it amongst yourselves.” As her words once uttered could not be changed, she became the...
