Mahabharata- Draupadi's Disrespect and Bhishma's Keeping Quite

In Mahabharata the Kauravs invited Pandavas for dicelost, he never said that it was all wrong and the dice
play. Pandavas lost everything including Draupadi inplay was manipulated. But the worst came when he
the dice play. After that Dushashana brought inkept silent while Dushashana was trying to disrobe
Draupadi to the hall and wanted to disrobe her inDraupadi. Draupadi was a lady from his own family -
front of all. That time Draupadi called upon all theThe wife of his grandsons. It was his duty to get up
elders sitting in the hall including Bhishma to save her.and stop all what happened. But he kept quite. As a
None of them got up. They all kept quite. That wasresult during the great war, Bhishma was hurt and
a sin committed by Bhishma.wounded beyond description. He waited for sun to
Bhishma has been depicted as a man of principals.change its direction and suffered alone in the
When he found out that his father was in love with abattlefield with all the arrows stuck in his body. He
girl, he vowed that he would never marry. Bhishmamust have suffered immense pain.
never married in his life. That was his character.But the law of karma does not leave anybody.
Though he could have rightfully become the king andBhishma suffered all this because he did not try to
get married he gave it all away for his father'sdefend a defenseless woman. He should have got up
happiness. It was a huge sacrifice.and put a stop to disrobing and punished all the
Bhishma knew all about what is right and what isKauravas. He did nothing of that kind. That was his
wrong. But even then he did not stop or even try toblunder.
prevent the dice play. After that when the Pandavas