Karna wanted revenge and Draupadi wanted revenge – what is the difference?

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Krishna proposed to Karna five villages Krishna told Draupadi she was angry but she was ready to accept it but Krishna proposed to Karna, Karna did not Krishna told Karna why are you fighting on the side of wives, I will talk about it more later but Draupadi did not let that revenge make her do any adharma she did not tell her husband that go and kill Kauravas when they are sleeping at night what Karna did was adharmic so to try to dishonor honorable women in public is highly adharmic so yes there is anger and anger can be expressed at times, we will discuss later on about forgiveness and that forgiveness is applicable when justice is to be done so actually if you look carefully what the Pandavas did was, they did not fight for revenge they fought for adharma if they had been fighting for revenge that had been their primary motive, they would never have tried to lead to a peace proposal so they fought for adharma so in that sense yes, at that moment of being violated being angry, Draupadi took that vow but she was throughout guided by Dharma Karna unfortunately was not guided by Dharma that’s the major difference between the two