#virata

*(and some not-so-chads)

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So we decided to list some of the chad husbands of Mahabharata that had been monogamous through and through staying loyal to just one wife that it. 🗿✨

1. Pururavas

Starting with we have Pururavas. Who was married to the apsara Urvashi and had a son called Ayus, who became his successor. Not going much into the details, as the myth itself can be made into a seperate post.

One thing that stayed common in all variations is Puraravas not having any other wives other than Urvashi. (Not Kalidasa's Vikramorvashiyam ahemm... That's not a myth that's a fanfiction and second fuck you Kalidasa)

So Puraravas definitely falls under the green flag monogamous chad catahyof HMC seeing how pookie he was in the myth (if you don't know the story please check it out!!)

2. Ruru

Another of the chads would ofcourse be Ruru. From the lineage of Bhrigu through his father Pramati, who was the son of Chyavana. Ruru was married to Pramadvara, who was raised by her foster father Rishi Sthulakesha.

Ruru immensely loved Pramadvara and it is very clear in the myth as well. Which again is just one of the cutest myths ever. Going as far as to sacrificing half of his lifespan to save Pramadvara.

He wins all the heart with his sweet and loving behaviour and enormous love for his wife. He definitely is one of the best monogamous chads out there.

3. Nala

We all are familiar with the sweet tale of Nala and Damayanti and their famous lovestory. So not at all going into the details of the myth, we can very well say Nala was by far one of the most chaddest of chads to exist.

He loved his wife Damyanti as much as she did and his actions in the myth speaks volumes about it.

Not wasting much words because we all know, Nala is one of the green forest monogamous chads indeed.

4. Aja

As the king of Ayodhya and Dasharath's father, making him the grandfather of our beloved Rama. Aja was married to Indumati, the princess of Vidharbha.

Their relationship was also as strong as iron. As the myth describes his love and grief upon Indumati's death and his early death because of that.

Even though Indumati had died leaving behind a son as young as eight months old. Aja had remained loyal to Indumati and had never remarried.

He definitely is one of the pookiest most deserving of the title of monogamous chads in this list

5. Pratipa

Not known to many, Pratipa was the father of Shantanu and the king of Hastinapur before him. Pratipa was married to Sunanda who was from the Shibi and had continued to stay loyal to her.

He had no other wives and had even rejected to marry Ganga, whom he offered to be his daughter in law instead in the future.

So that is why we feel he deserves a place in the list of monogamous chads.

6. Virata

The well known king of Matsya was also mentioned to have only one wife, Sudeshna in the entire Mahabharata. Since their personal romance wasn't mentioned at all, we can assume them to be loving and loyal.

It is unfortunate he dies in the war but we can hope he had led a happy and loving life being the kind and generous chad he was (hmc definitely has a thing for daddy Virata mind you)

He ranks in our lists of chads just right.

7. Balaram

The man. The myth. The legend. Balaram himself was the chaddest of the most chads in his avatar as the older brother of Krishna. There's not even any need to mention his story or how chad he as. Throughout his life he has been monogamous to his wife Revati, with whom he had two sons Nishatha and Ulmuka.

There family is short and sweet very unlike to the other members of the Yadavas like his father Vasudev or brother Krishna. That is why him being a monogamous chad stands out to us as him being quite unique that his family and also a pookie at that.

He definitely deserves one of the highest ranks in the monogamous chads list.

8. Abhimanyu

Though his marital life was cut short because of his sudden unfortunate death in the Kurukshetra, we must not forget what a chad and pookie Abhimanyu has been throughout his quite short and kinda sad life.

He falls under the catagory of monogamous chads not just because it obviously was true or that ahem HMC have a little bias towards him ahem but rather also because of the misconceptions that surrounds his marriage. Many people know him to be married to Uttara, the daughter of King Virata — yet another of the monogamous chads as mentioned earlier — and Queen Sudeshna of Matsya.

But many people also happens to believe Abhimanyu was married to Sasirekha, Balaram's daughter. Only that is false since neither Mahabharata nor Harivamsha ever mentions any existence of Sasirekha, and she was only mentioned in a folklore, called Sasirekha Parinayam. Which makes it very clear how Abhimanyu was a monogamous chad in the original texts.

He's a chad and a pookie and that makes us love him more that enough, and consider him eligible to be put in this list along with other chads.

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Now time for some of the ‘not so chads but monogamous they were’ ones. Which makes us quite disappointed since their behaviour has been nothing sort of good, if not downright horrible and disgusting towards their one and only wives throughout their lives.

1. Yayati

Probably the most horrible monogamous husband to exist in Hindu mythology one could ever think of is the Yayati himself. Married to Devyani, the daughter of the revered Asurguru Shukracharya and his wife Jayanti, Indra's daughter. Yayati is infamous for his long term affair with Devyani's ex friend and maid Sharmistha. Who herself deserves a dedicated post at how horrible she was.

Yayati despite being monogamous in name, as he was not married to Sharmishtha in “that” sense, was anything far from being a good or chad husband to his wife. He had a long term affair with Sharmishtha which bore him three sons, Anu, Druhyu and Puru whom he later refused to acknowledge as his own when confronted by Devyani at last after she found our about them.

Not going into much details at how horrible of a husband and in general a person Yayati was. He is definitely greatly detested by us. For all the correct reasons.

**Vidambana to dekho! Here we have Pururavas the og pookie monogamous chad who gets villified in many versions, and then we have his great grandson Yayati the og horrible fucktard husband, who gets whitewashed in many tales for absolutely no reason**

2. Dushyant

The father of the great Bharata. The man Dushyant himself dalls next in line to Yayati in being one of worst monogamous husbands in all of Hindu mythology's history.

Unless and until we're again going into the area of Kalidasa's writings of Abhijanashakuntalam, where Dushyant is a very load tried to be cleaned of his disgusting behaviour (by adding the plot point of him being cursed by Rishi Durvasa).

He is one of the most ignorant and horrible person to be known. Not going into the story as we all know what tragedy had befallen poor Shakuntala after her “marriage” with Dushyant. We can safely say Dushyant was a horrible husband for his poor treatment of Shakuntala, which included not acknowledging either her or their borne son Bharata and calling her many things including a harlot, and going as far as to disrespecting her mother Menaka as well.

These all in our eyes makes Dushyant the least eligible person to be called a proper husband let alone a chad one at that.

3. Dhritarashtra

We all quite a bit, if not more, know about how horrible Dhritarashtra was. As a failed father and husband, it is kind of a wonder he had managed to stay monogamous –though not loyal – for his entire life. (Could also be because no one wanted to marry their daughters to his sorry self perhaps?)

Starting from disrespecting Gandhari's opinions to cheating on her with her maid during the tough times of her pregnancy for over a year. He wasn't married to the maid, which makes it clear how even if he was monogamous, in name and literal meaning. He wasn't at all a decent husband.

There are many instances of how horrible he was, all as a father, an uncle and as a husband. But even not getting too deep into that (as it is kind of unnecessary for the purpose of this post) it is clear Dhritarashtra was by no mean one of the chads. So we are counting him in the list of not so chads as he deserves.

4. Jamdagni

Though Jamadagni does not completely falls under the catagory of not-so-chads, we still thought we should add him in the list and explain a little. As to why we think some of him actions were slightly.... uncanny? Towards his wife Renuka.

As we know how the lore goes, so not getting much into those, it is not hard to say his reaction to Renuka not bringing water, and the actions he took against her (or rather compelled his sons to take against her) were not at all praise worthy. They could – if not exaggerating – be considered inhumane perhaps?

Though we, HMC does believes he wasn't the worst of husbands or even bad enough to be on this list. Since his later remorse and guilt was evidence enough about his love for Renuka, AND that his actions were more of a result of his rash decision and anger. We cannot distract our thoughts from the fact, that Renuka perhaps would be scared and disappointed at Jamadagni for the series of incidents. Probably a little traumatized too... So taking in mind of her situation, this perticular criticism is held against Jamadagni by us. To maybe hold him a little accountable for his not so good actions?

This is the only reason he is in the list of ‘not-so-chad but monogamous still’s, even though the it's not exactly the catagory we would like to put him in.

She is the youngest child of Virata and Sudeshna, and burdened with much more than what is her fair share of troubles.

When Arjuna, as Brihannala, convinces Virata to employ him as the dance teacher for Uttara, her friends and her attendants, she quickly becomes taken by him and begins to develop a crush of a kind.

This, personally, doesn't seem too out of pocket, since as a teenager stuck in a royal family, Arjuna is one of the very few people outside her family that she is allowed to interact with freely, and she forms somewhat of an attachment.

Arjuna, too, is good to her, and they, in that one year, develop a deep friendship that does not seem completely eclipsed by the familial relationship that they later find themselves in.

Draupadi, however, understandably, stuck in the worst position out of the six of them in Virata's household, grows a little jealous of Uttara and Brihannala's easy camaraderie.

Functionally, it is hardly anything more than a teenage crush, but Draupadi's brain, irritated with her situation and having no other intellectual outlet, begins to compound the issue into something bigger than it needed to be. Thankfully, though, this spiral too never goes out of hand, and she is able to limit herself to only some sarcasm directed at Arjuna every now and then.

When Duryodhana attacks Virata's city, and Uttar refuses to go himself to request Brihannala to drive his chariot, Draupadi very sarcastically suggests that he send his younger sister because, "Oh, Brihannala will never turn her down!"

Vyasa does substantiate a part of Draupadi's suspicion here when he immediately goes on to describe Uttara as the elephant-bride running to the elephant that is Arjuna.

Arjuna, too, seemingly somewhat tolerates this crush; maybe even enjoying her attention a little bit, as he addresses her as 'mrigakshi' [doe-eyed], 'bhaamini' [flirtatious woman], 'sundari' [pretty woman] and 'sakhi' [friend]. She, too, in turn, makes grand proclamations of how she might hurt herself if Brihannala doesn't do as she says.

Uttara then proudly follows Arjuna as he walks up to Uttar, ready to be his charioteer. Even then, Arjuna doesn't let up on the opportunity to make Uttara laugh, as he pretends not to know how to wear the armour given to him, until Uttar, tired of this, comes down to help him.

However, the matter of Uttara's age here is immediately reinforced, as is the inappropriateness of whatever, if at all, is going on behind the scenes, as Uttara asks Brihhannala to fetch the Kaurava warriors' uttariyas for her dolls. After the war, Arjuna himself goes to Uttara to show her all the uttariyas they grabbed for her.

After that war, after the Pandavas reveal their identities to the court of Virata, when Virata suddenly suggests marrying Uttara to Arjuna, we see Yudhishthira immediately straighten up and glare at Arjuna.

Arjuna, too, is embarrassed, mostly because he knows that while he hasn't exactly ever encouraged Uttara's crush, he also has never actively discouraged her. Now, that could be because of his compromised position on account of his disguise of a non-binary person employed by this girl's very powerful father, but the fact of the matter is that whatever it was that had not gone entirely unnoticed.

Arjuna, therefore, stands up and insists in many ways that Uttara has confessed many secrets, considering him to be her dear friend, and thus, he would not take advantage of that trust and tie her to himself on a technicality. Instead, he offers Abhimanyu, the boy who is from his side, a mini-Arjuna that he can give to Uttara instead.

Their marriage is unfortunately overshadowed by the preparations for the war of Kurukshetra. She hardly even gets to spend a single night with her new husband, since Abhimanyu is far more interested in the war than in romance.

However, after the war, we see Uttara embrace Abhimanyu's corpse and loudly recount the few sweet memories that she had managed to steal away from his routine of war. She recounts how Abhimanyu always waved to her and called out to her whenever he saw her, even when he was busy. She takes off his armour and lies down in his arms, not caring if anyone judges her now, talking incessantly as if her husband were still alive. She is even afraid for a second that in the time that it takes her to get to heaven, Abhimanyu might become besotted with some apsara and forget her; they are both so young after all.

The war begins about six months after her marriage, and it ends tragically, as we know. She handles it quite better than expected, as she, instead of breaking down immediately, concentrates more on consoling Subhadra. Even as the war ends, the attack on her does not stop, and instead, she is singled out for one last attack by Ashwatthama, who seeks to deal a fatal blow to the Pandavas and Krishna.

Irrespective of what Ashwatthama might have done, Uttara's son is born premature, in the sixth or seventh month, and it takes Krishna a lot of fight to ensure that the baby survives.

Uttara, even in the middle of this, keeps telling Krishna that Abhimanyu always told her that she'd have a boy, and that his uncle Krishna would love the baby like no one else, that he would grow up in Dwarika just like Abhimanyu himself, and that's the faith Uttara puts in Krishna as he performs some kind of an operation on the baby.

It is unclear what happened to Uttara after the birth of her child. For the sake of Parikshita, I hope she did not kill herself after Vyasa brought the dead warriors 'back to life' for a night, like many of her peers.

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The Case

In Italian, “Virata” means to change direction or to veer. Looking at this case they totally live up to their name. The case is a crazy design with a octagonal bezel offset onto an octagonal case. The octagonal case and bezel along with the facets cut into the corners give this a very unique look that I really love.

Made from 316L stainless steel this case is bead blasted and then coated in rose gold PVD. This is not a small case at 44mm in length and width but with the no lug design this wears very comfortably on my wrist. The crown guards protect almost the entire crown and are very angular which matches the style of the case perfectly. Also of note, water resistance is rated at 100 meters.

The Dial

This is a simple 3 hander with date window at the 4:30 position; the hands are nicely polished with lume painted on the minute and hour hands.  Using a matte black sandwich dial they were able to create a more three dimensional look, and the lume glowing through the dial looks great.

Covering the dial is a sapphire crystal which stick just slightly above the bezel.  The nice part about this watch is the fact you can take a very simple 3 hand watch and make it look so good because of that crazy case.

Case Back

The case back is a stainless steel screw down with sapphire crystal. Normally the most interesting thing about the case back is looking at the movement which is a nice Miyota 9015.  Although I do love to see the movement and its beating heart the thing I love most about this watch is the is the facets cut into the case. Looks good at all angles.

The Strap

This model came with a perforated leather 22mm strap with stitches matching the case. This uses a standard pin and buckle clasp.  Leather is a bit stiff but wraps around the wrist comfortably.  By having the strap mount into the case this no lug idea allows this large case to sit comfortable on the wrist.  I have a 6.5 inch wrist and this 44mm case fits perfectly.

The Lume

I love the lume on this watch. Swiss Superluminova was applied on the numbers, hour makers, hour hand, and second hand. This lume glows bright and lasts for hours.  The lume on this is one of the clearest and most readable watches I have dealt with.

Overall Impression

This is a stand out time piece for sure, patented case and all.  It is worth noting that I have had more compliments on this watch than any other.  The matte rose gold finish caused by the bead blasting makes the finish subtle and not flashy but the polished hex screws on the bezel adds just a little bling.

Their Kickstater campaign was a success, but it is now closed out.  That means you will have to pre-order it directly from their site.  Pre-order pricing will be $595; after that they will retail for $709, with only 50 being made of each model.  You can check out their Kickstarter campaign here or check out their site at viratawatches.com.

Review Summary

Brand and model: Virata VRT1.8

Price: $595 preorder and $709 retail.

Who’s it for: Ones wanting something out of the ordinary.

Would I wear it: Absolutely

What I’d change: nothing

The best thing about it: All the angular cuts in the case.

Tech Specs from Virata

Materials: 316L Stainless steel

Movement: Miyota 9015

Crystal: Sapphire

Strap: Leather perforated

Dial: Matte black

Measurements: 44mm wide, and 44mm in length.

Water Resistance: 100 meters

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