Why Draupadi didn’t allow Karna to participate in her swayamvar competition?

From: Sri Chaitanya Chandara Prabhu

Why Draupadi didn’t allow karna to participate in her swayamvar competition based on his birth and neglected his guna & karma?

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Vijayathinachandra Prabhu why didn’t Draupadi allow Karna to participate in the Swayamvar competition based on his birth and neglect his guna and karma answer the very name Swayamvar indicates that it was Draupadi’s choice and all the kings who participated in Swayamvar implicitly accepted that point that it would be Draupadi’s choice of who would be her husband now to aid her in making that choice of the most valorous person there was a competition kept but the competition was the subordinate criteria not the primary criteria the primary criteria was Draupadi’s choice and that is why when none of the Kshatriya kings could succeed at that time Arjuna decided to compete but Arjuna was dressed as a Brahmin so when he went forward he asked the assembly and primarily Dhrishtadyumna who was supervising the conducting of the competition and Drupada who was the main person over there he asked them is it allowed for a Brahmana to compete in the Swayamvar and Drupada looked curiously at this Brahmana but then he saw that he was very powerful looking and then he said yes it is because the Brahmanas are always considered superior to the Kshatriyas and the Kshatriyas are their servants so the point we see from Arjuna’s example also is that even a person of a higher Varna had to take permission for competing in the Swayamvar and not only that even after he won her rightfully many of the kings were outraged and especially kings led by Shishupal and also Duryodhana were outraged that a Brahmana has been allowed to humiliate us the Kshatriyas by being allowed to participate in a Swayamvar that was meant for Kshatriyas so now obviously by his guna and karma this Brahmana was actually Arjuna had shown that he was worthy of Draupadi that he was better than all of them in archery but in spite of that the remaining Kshatriyas objected and Draupada did not just dismiss those objections because in one sense they were valid the Swayamvar was for Kshatriyas and actually there was almost like a fight and eventually in that fight Arjuna checked Karna and Bhima checked Shalya and that’s how Draupada and the Swayamvar were protected so the same criteria applies to Karna Karna may have been a Kshatriya by guna and karma of course he was a Kshatriya more by karma than by guna he was surely competent as an archer but he was not so much a Kshatriya by guna, he had some gunas like charity but one aspect of chivalry is protecting the weak but it was he who proposed the disrobing of Draupadi and that was surely not just un-chivalrous but anti-chivalrous so he on one level did not have the guna of a Kshatriya but even if he had because of his birth he had to seek prior permission and when he did not seek that prior permission and came marching directly to compete he opened himself to humiliation and rejection when Dhrishtina at the request of Draupadi told him that only Kshatriyas are allowed so the point is whenever there is any event there is a competition, there are certain default rules and there may be some exceptions for the rules but the exceptions are decided by the organizers and one who assumes the exception creates a platform where he opens himself opens himself to the possibility of being humiliated and dishonored so to a large extent in this circumstance the blame was on Karna for not checking whether the exception was applicable for him but assuming it thank you