Question
This figure is celebrated in hijṛā communities, a gender non-conforming people, during an 18-day festival in Koovagam where his marriage is re-enacted. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this son of Arjuna and Ulupi. Krishna honors this figure’s wish to be married before dying by transforming into the female form of Mohini.
ANSWER: Iravan [or Iravat, or Iravant, or Aravan, or Kuttantavar]
[10e] The story of Iravan is found in this Hindu epic, whose section about Arjuna’s conversation with Krishna on the necessity of fighting the Kurukshetra War is often excerpted as the Bhagavad Gita.
ANSWER: Mahābhārata
[10m] Iravan plays an important role in the cult of this figure. During the last years of a self-imposed exile, Arjuna disguised himself as a eunuch and took up roles of a hijṛā for breaking an oath that he made to this figure.
ANSWER: Draupadi
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Summary
| 2024 ARCADIA at BU | 2024-12-06 | Y | 8 | 8.75 | 75% | 13% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Duke | 2024-12-06 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Missouri S&T | 2024-12-06 | Y | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA Online | 2025-05-17 | Y | 5 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Penn State | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Florida Tech | 2024-12-06 | Y | 4 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Waterloo | 2024-11-09 | Y | 6 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at GT | 2024-12-06 | Y | 4 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Illinois | 2024-11-09 | Y | 4 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Warwick | 2024-12-06 | Y | 5 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Claremont | 2024-11-02 | Y | 3 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
Data
| Penn State | RIT | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Pitt | Maryland | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |