There is a Punjabi folklore connecting Draupadi’s conjugal arrangements with the reason why dogs copulate in public. A Pandava would always leave his footwear outside Draupadi’s chamber to let the other brothers know of his presence. A dog stole Yudhishtira’s footwear and so Arjuna assumed Draupadi was alone when he entered her chamber in search of his bow. Draupadi, embarrassed, cursed the dog that since its actions caused her intimate moments to be known to another, all dogs in the future would copulate only in full view of the public, stripped of all shame.
