| Arjuna |
|---|
| Texts | Mahabharata |
| Personal information |
| Parents | Pandu ("father") Kunti (mother) Indra (divine father) |
| Siblings | Karna, Yudhisthira, Bhima, Nakula and Sahadeva |
AgyatvÄsa (Incognito)
He disguised himself as a Brahmin named Kank (among themselves Pandavas called him Jaya) and taught the game of dice to the king.After two years of pregnancy, Gandhari gave birth to a hard piece of lifeless flesh that was not a baby at all. Gandhari was devastated as she had expected a hundred sons according to the blessing of Rishi Vyasa. Vyasa agreed, cut the piece of flesh into one hundred and one-pieces, and placed them each into a jar.
The sage Dwaipayana gave a boon to Gandhari that she would be blessed with 100 sons, the Kauravas.
The Gods who were invoked after Kunti used the mantra given by sage Durvasa, made love with Kunti just for reproduction purpose and not for sexual pleasure. This is called as “Niyoga†during those days. Pandu convinces Kunti to have niyoga with the gods and mother children for him.
The sage Durvasa had blessed Kunti, daughter of King Kunti Bhog, with a boon. He initiated her into a unique mantra, through which she could invoke any divine being to provide her with a son. Kunti conceived her first son, Karna, from Surya, the Sun God, as a virgin, and had to abandon him.
The first night with Yudhishtara proved disastrously frustrating for Draupadi who was by then aroused and willing to be taken. Bhima, who came next, got over his carnal desire by carrying Draupadi on his shoulders to show her the city till he was exhausted. Arjuna satiated her desire by masturbating her.
Her heart was stuck to Karna but King wanted her to choose Arjuna. So, left with no choice , Draupadi revealed her true feelings to her husbands, that she had secretly loved Karna and if she had married him she would not have been gambled away and publicly humiliated.
As the three eldest Pandavas continue their trek up Sumeru, Arjuna falls. Yudhishthira explains that the reason why he wasn't going to enter the heavens in his mortal form was because he was too proud of his skills as an archer. Bima falls next. As he is dying, he asks what his sin was.
After a long fight, Arjuna realises that the hunter is the very Siva whom he is propitiating. Siva blesses him with the Pasupata and also other celestial weapons. Siva alludes to the fact that Arjuna was Nara in a previous birth, with Narayana as his companion.
Krishna, who knew it was not possible to defeat an armed Drona, hatched a plan to kill him by lying to him about the death of his son Ashwatthama. The plan worked and the grieving sage was beheaded by Dhristadyumna, which in turn led to Ashwatthama becoming filled with rage at the deceptive way his father was killed.
Bhima asks Yudhishthira why Draupadi died early and couldn't continue the journey to heaven. Yudhishthira claims that though they all were equal unto her she had great partiality for Dhananjaya, so she obtained the fruit of that conduct today. Arjuna is the next person to die without completing the journey.
Legend has it that Yudisthira is angry that Duryodhana, the cause of much evil, has earned a place in heaven. Lord Indra explains that he has served his time in hell, and has also been a good king. The biggest Duryodhana temple in Uttaranchal is located in Jakhol in the Tons valley.
Subhadra was the sister of Lord Krishna, the main hero of the Mahabharata, who was the daughter of Vasudeva and the wife of Arjuna. His elder brother Balarama wanted to marry him to Duryodhana, but with Krishna's encouragement, Arjuna drove him away from Dwarka. Pritha is Kunti,wife of Pandu &mother of Pandavas.It was her dream along with her husband to see their son the crowned king of Hastinapur which formed the path of the story. Prutha was adopted by her father's cousine ,who had no issue, King Kuntibhoj & so now being his daughter she was called Kunti.
Arjuna gave a plentiful supply of gold for his brother Yudhishthira's yaga. Agni is called Dhananjaya, and by providing gold to Yudhishthira, Arjuna earned the name Dhananjaya. He was Partha, because he was Kunti's son.
Gandhari along with her husband Dhritarashtra, brother-in-law Vidura and sister-in-law Kunti, left Hastinapur about 15 years after the war to seek penance. She is said to have died in the Himalayas in a forest fire along with Dhritarastra, Vidura and Kunti and attained moksha.
Meaning of the name ParthParth is of Indian origin. Parth was the name of Arjun,the hero of Indian epic 'Mahabharat'. The literal meaning is 'The person who never misses his target'.
Kunti was Arjuna's biological mother and Vasudeva's sister. That makes Subhadra and Arjuna cross cousins.
At one point in time, it is thought that the tribe of the Vrishnis fused with the tribe of the Yadavas, whose own hero-god was named Krishna. VÄsudeva and Krishna fused to become a single deity, which appears in the Mahabharata, and they start to be identified with Vishnu in the Mahabharata and the Bhagavad Gita.
Karna, though being a great archer, was clearly unable to upskill himself and learn advanced fighting skills like Arjuna. And so, in the end, even though he was killed in an unfair combat, this particular battle clearly proved that he was no match for Arjuna's skills.
In many recent adaptations of the Mahabharata, Karna is married to two women—Vrushali and Supriya. Contradictory to this, the Tamil play Karna Moksham portray Ponnuruvi as his wife, while the regional Kashidasi Mahabharata states her to be Padmavati.
Karna joined the Duryodhana's side in the Kurukshetra war. He was a key warrior who aimed to kill 3rd Pandava Arjuna but dies in a battle with him during the war. He is a tragic hero in the Mahabharata, in a manner similar to Aristotle's literary category of "flawed good man".
