Markandeya Purana — Adhyaya 1, Shloka 14
Adhyaya 1 — Jaimini’s Questions on the Mahabharata and the Origin of the Wise Birds
कस्माच्च पाण्डुपुत्राणामेका सा द्रुपदात्मजा ।
पञ्चानां महीषी कृष्णा ह्यत्र नः संशयो महान् ॥
kasmācca pāṇḍuputtrāṇām ekā sā drupadātmajā /
pañcānāṃ mahīṣī kṛṣṇā hy atra naḥ saṃśayo mahān
又为何德鲁帕达（Drupada）唯一的女儿——黑姬克利师那（Kṛṣṇā，即德罗帕蒂 Draupadī）——竟成为般度（Pāṇḍu）五子共同的王后？对此我们深怀疑惑。
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FAQs
The verse foregrounds a dharmic problem: an apparent exception to ordinary marital norms (one woman as consort of five brothers). The ethical thrust is not to sensationalize the event but to ask for its causal and dharmic justification—implying that extraordinary outcomes in Itihāsa are to be understood through dharma, prior causes (karma), and divine/ritual contexts rather than mere social judgment.
This verse is not directly sarga/pratisarga/manvantara/vaṃśa/vaṃśānucarita in itself; it functions as a framing question that typically introduces vaṃśānucarita/ākhyāna material (dynastic and exemplary narratives). In pancalakṣaṇa terms, it is best cataloged as leading into vaṃśānucarita (accounts of royal lineages and notable deeds) rather than cosmological creation cycles.
Symbolically, the question points to the tension between ‘one’ and ‘many’ in dharmic life: a single śakti-like royal presence (Draupadī as kṛṣṇā) shared among five embodiments of fraternal unity. Esoterically, later traditional readings often treat the Pāṇḍavas as a coordinated set of functions (virtues/powers) and Draupadī as the central integrating principle whose ‘shared’ marriage signifies the necessity of harmonizing multiple human faculties under one dharmic axis.