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DRAUPADI raised her head and looked around, the proud bearing of a queen.... The look rested on me ultimately. "We have to endure it. For the righteous Yudhishtira, for his word is supreme. We are all slaves!" Then I stepped forward and looking at Yudhishtira continued, "There are prostitutes in the streets of the gamblers. Even those squanderers would not pawn their women."