*(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.

I'm sure everyone knows how shitty of a husband he is, by now. Like come on dude. You get a curse due to your own shitty actions, and now you want to pass on the consequences to one of your young sons? I'm sure his sons with Sharmishtha were prolly preteens, seeing how they burst into tears when he refused to acknowledge them.

Yadu gets cursed that his descendants will never rule (a curse which does not work out, clearly), while his other 3 brothers also get some curse or the other. Poor Puru gives up his youth (or perhaps, childhood) to Yayati, who spends the time frolicking around with apsaras. Indeed, how quaint. Like who would give up their chadhti jawani for aisa baap?

This much is common knowledge. However, this is not the end of Yayati's shit parenting. So, he also has a daughter, Madhavi, who is the younger sister of Yadu and Turvasu. Now, this story is found in the Udyoga Parva. In short, there was a guy named Galava, who had to give 800 white horses to Vishwamitra as guru dakshina, so he went to Yayati. Now, Yayati, who has so far been so exalted in the text despite his shit actions, is surprisingly chindi. Bro does not have these horses, which btw, belong only to kings. He tells Galava to take his daughter instead of the horses which he does not have.

So, Galava roams around with Madhavi, who is probably pretty young at this point. She is of marriageable age. She suggests him to give her to a King in exchange of horses. While this is her suggestion, the way this story unfolds makes me wonder exactly how much of this was by her own consent or not, since this is probably one of the worst experiences a woman has had in the entire epic (which is saying something, seeing how this is the Mahabharata).

Madhavi is passed to the King of Kosala, who has only 200 horses. He takes Madhavi, has a son with her, and then she is returned to Galava. Since she has a boon, she becomes a virgin once more. She is then passed on to the Kings of Kashi and Bhoja. Now, Galava, with 600 horses and Madhavi finally goes to Vishwamitra, who says that he would've taken Madhavi instead of the horses if Galava came to him first, since she is so pretty. He takes the horses, has a son with her, and then sends her back to Galava, who takes her back to Yayati.

Yayati holds her swayamvar, and Madhavi chooses to live a life as a sanyaasi. This clearly shows how this entire cycle of events has affected her psyche. I'm sorry but this story feels like Madhavi got pimped out by her father and Galava.

She is one of the six most prominent apsaras as per Mahabharata among Menaka, Urvashi, Ghritachi, Poorvachitti and Sahajanya.

She is also a performer at the celebration held by Sakra and Pandu on the occasion of Arjuna's birth, alongside the others of her cohort. She is noted also as a talented singer.

Like. The whole story starts because he sees a beautiful woman and gets together with her, and they have a daughter, and for a while they are so, so happy. And then he's realises, oh, I'm running from my duty to my people, and wants to return, but Jayanti his wife will not come, not when she of the Devas (the enemy, the enemy), not when she loves her father, not when her father is the king of gods, able to come down on them like a ton of bricks.

So she leaves. But no matter, he has his daughter, and it's not a consolation, it's a whole trophy. If this separation was a battle he has already won (it wasn't supposed to be a battle between them). He calls her Devayani, so she knows she might follow the path of her mother's people, so she has something of her mother even if he cannot give her Jayanti herself. Which is fine. She's sweet, she's beautiful, she's growing up fast and he loves her. It's not as well as can be but it's not all bad.

And then Brihaspati's son shows up. He's not even bad, is the thing. Shukra can be unhappy with his closeness to his daughter if he had any tangible evils but he doesn't. The Danavas kill him anyway, and his daughter comes begging and he sees at once what the gods want, knows that they will get it. It takes three tries. Shukra would be angry at his daughter's infatuation, but Kacha turns her down, and no greater punishment may be rendered by Shukra's hand.

Her grief turns to simmering rage and bitter pride. She quarrels with her friends, and speaks ill words to a companion who tongue has as many knives as her own. She is hurt, she is rescued, and now she weeps at the city gates, asking "Are you a sycophant? Are we beggars? Leave me here, if that is so."

"No," he says, "we are not. I will see you are compensated."

The compensation is a girl enslaved.

Shukra keeps failing.

His daughter finds another man to chase, and for a while Shukra is happy, because this king loves her, and there are grandchildren to dote on, and he has warned Yayati away from Sharmistha while asking him to care for her in the same breath.

And yet love makes traitors of all men, and Devayani returns to him in tears. He should not have been surprised. He too was once a traitor. That guilt is his rage, and his rage is blind, and he curses.

"Father," Yayati says, "how can your daughter be happy when I am old? What woman wants her lord unmanned?"

Shukra cannot take back the curse, but he can offer a caveat. Yayati leaves. He hears of the outcome from others, the change in inheritance. He looks out to the path outside his home. Devayani does not come again.

She is happy, he tells himself. She knows to come to me if she is not.

The thought is not as convincing as he would like it to be.

Devayani does not return.

Hope dies last, but hope dies as well, and Shukra leaves. From the corner of his eye he sees a girl by the side of the road, her face turned away. The curve of her chin reminds him of a distant dream, but when he looks closer, she is gone.

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Yayati - TRETII (Fuselab)

She is given by her father Yayati to Galava so he could gather 800 special horses for his guru Vishvamitra from four Kings in exchange for allowing them to have their way with Madhavi.

Galava 'leases' her out to the Kings Haryashva, Divodasa and Ushinara of Ayodhya, Kashi and Bhoja respectively in exchange for 200 horses each time. In the end, when Galava is unable to find any more horses to fulfill his promise to Vishvamitra, the latter quite enthusiastically takes Madhavi with him, rebuking his student for not bringing her to him sooner.

Her sons from the three kings and Vishvamitra are Vasumanah, Pratardana, Shibi and Ashtaka. After their births, Galava returns her to Yayati who tries to get her married.

Tired of being paraded around like livestock, Madhavi rejects the swayamvara, retreating to the forest to spend her days in penance instead.

When Yayati is later cast down from heaven, he takes half the merit earned by his daughter to re-ascend to his previous state, while Madhavi is left playing catch up.

Personally, I believe that Yayati's rather cruel behaviour with Madhavi is the ultimate culmination of his relationship (or rather the lack of) with her mother Devayani.

It is repulsive how all the men in this story treat her: Galava clearly cares for nothing more than fulfilling his own agenda, and the kings are revoltingly eager to take advantage of this 'scheme' as they delve into uncomfortable details of Madhavi's body at every chance.