Lord Krishna and Satyabhama ( the human incarnation of Bhumi) killed him. PauNDraka VAsudeva. The bhava of Mathura and Dvarakä conflicts with the bhava of Vraja in the minds of the people of Vraja, so they did not visit Him. Later, with the help of Arjuna, Droṇa took half of Drupada's kingdom. He was killed unfairly on the 13th day of Kurukshetra War. During his temporary absence, Nahusha took his place as the king. Then, when the eighth child was to be born, they hired occult people who put the soldiers guarding the prison to sleep. Later in the epic, Surya gave Akshaypatra to Yudhishthira. Devika is a minor character in the Mahabharata. She was the mother of tyrant Kamsa. He appears during the exile of Pandavas. He had two wives named Kunti and Madri. [18][19][20][21] He appears to have been an ancient very powerful and renowned (vikhyaat) ruler of the Kambojas. Ekalavya (English: एकलव्य, ékalavya) is a character from the epic The Mahābhārata. Janamejaya was a Kuru king and a descendant of Arjuna. Later Agni realised Svaha's love and married her. It fell into a pot and Drona was born. He was succeeded by his son, Ayu.[55]. He was the son of Aniruddha and Usha, the daughter of Banasura. Devaki was the daughter of Ugrasena, the stepsister of Kansa, wife of Vasudeva Anakadundubhi, the biological mother of Lord Krishna. Sanjaya was Dhritarashtra's advisor and also his charioteer. Ganesha is the god of beginnings. Nakula and Sahadev were twins born to Madri who had invoked the Ashwini Kumaras. Vena PauNdraka. In the Mahabharata, he is the elder son of Shantanu and Satyavati, ascending the throne of Hastinapura after his father's death. She was the paternal aunt of Krishna, Balarama, and Subhadra. His story is set long before the Kurukshetra war. Brihadbala, who was 115th generation king, participated in Kurukshetra war and was killed by Abhimanyu. He was king of Nishada. From their union, Budha was born, whose son, Pururavas, founded the lunar dynasty. He is the spiritual father of Arjuna. In the epic, he was the first god called by Kunti using the mantra given by sage Durvasa to obtain a child. Dhaumya sent Aruni to stop the water from entering the embankment. She married Dronacharya, who was poor at that time. During the exile of Pandavas, Arjuna came to meet him. Pandu was responsible and a great warrior, who expanded his kingdom during his rule. Parashurama is also the Guru of Bhishma, Dronacharya, and Karna.[52][53]. He was the royal chief architect in Hastinapura. But Bhima spared Karna remembering Arjuna's oath of slaying Karna. On the 18th day of Kurukshetra War, Nakula had killed three sons of Karna. He is the brother of Devaki, the mother of the god Krishna who later slew Kamsa. This led Shuka to curse Yayati to lose his youth. Balarama was the elder brother of Krishna. in direct and joint attacks when he had a bow in his hands. In tonight's episode of Mahabharat, the story resumes from the scene that shows Krishna and Balram eliminating the two demons who were sent by Kansa.The villagers heap praise on the two young boys, and an elated Nanda credits Indra Dev for blessing them. He was killed by either Abhimanyu on the 13th day of Kurukshetra War or Arjun in the Virata War. They had a son called Yaudheya. Shantanu was a Kuru king of Hastinapura in the epic Mahabharata. The People and Culture of Bengal, a Study in Origins: A Study in Origins, 2002, p 564, Annapurna Chattopadhyaya. Shalva was the king of Shalva kingdom. When Gandhari was pregnant for more than nine months, Dhritrashtra, in fear that there would be no heir, impregnated the maid. Drupada was the son of King Prishata. When the princes grow up, Dhritarashtra is about to be crowned king by Bhishma when Vidura intervenes and uses his knowledge of politics to assert that a blind person cannot be king. Later, when Krishna was chosen as the main speaker at a gathering of a large number of kings and rulers, he played a completely different role. He was considered to have the physical strength of 10,000 elephants approximately. Duryodhana also is known as Suyodhana, is a major antagonist in Mahabharata and was the eldest of the Kauravas, the hundred sons of a blind king Dhritarashtra and Queen Gandhari. He died in Kurukshetra War in the hands of Karna. Being the firstborn son of the blind king, he was the crown prince of Kuru Kingdom and its capital Hastinapura along with his cousin Yudhishtra who was older than him. Ayu or Ayus was an ancestor of Shantanu. He was born to Vichitravirya's first wife Ambika. He was the son of Vasudev and Rohini. Shon was trained in warfare by Karna. Later, Babhruvahana unknowingly killed his father but was revived by Ulupi, Chitrāngadā's friend, and co-wife. Arjuna was the son of Pandu and Kunti in the Kuru Kingdom. Nanda was also known as Dhana Nanda or Mahapadma Nanda for the amount of gold he collected by winning wars. Purochana had a wife and many sons. Originally named as 'Devavrata', he was the eighth son of the Kuru King Shantanu and the river goddess Ganga. In the Hindu epic Mahabharata, Laxmanaa (also spelled Lakshmanaa or Lakshmanā) is the daughter of Duryodhana and Bhanumati. Question: Why did Mother Yasoda and Nanda Maharaja not pay a visit to Krishna at Mathura, or even Dwaraka? In the epic Mahabharata, Vidura is described as the prime minister of the Kuru Kingdom and also the uncle of the Pandavas and Kauravas. In the Shanti Parva of the epic, Narada narrated that Chitrangada's daughter (Bhanumati) with Kaurava Duryodhana. The most important other characters include Bhishma, Karna, Dronacharya, Shakuni, Dhritrashtra, Gandhari and Kunti. He was a young prince of the Nishadha, a confederation of jungle tribes (Adivasi) in Ancient India. After some time, Shakuni convinced the Pandavas and Kunti to visit Lakshagraha. Dharma, later in the epic, appears testing Yudhishthira by taking form of a Yaksha. He lived in a city named Takshasila, which was the new territory of Takshaka after his race was banished by Pandavas led by Arjuna from the Khandava Forest and Kurukshetra, where they built their new kingdom. She was also the mother of Pandu, step mother of Dhritarashtra and grand mother of Pandavas. Later she left him and returned to heaven. Once he was visiting Haridwar, where he saw Ghritachi, an Apsara, bathing in river. They were good friends of Duryodhana, and fought for his cause in the Kurukshetra War. He was one of the best archers and one of the greatest warriors of his time and he was trained by Lord Parashurama. He was a descendant of sage Angiras. Hiḍimbī or Hiḍimbā was a Rakshasi in the Mahābhārata. Vichitravirya (Sanskrit: विचित्रवीर्य, vicitravīrya) was a king in Indian Religious Texts. Yudhishthira and Draupadi. Pururavas's Descendents founded the lunar dynasty. Her sole goal in life becomes his destruction, to fulfill which she is reborn as Shikhandini/Shikhandi. She is daughter of Surya and Saranyu as well as the twin of Yamraj. Madri, using the mantra, called the Ashwini and had two twins, Nakula and Sahadeva.[12]. In his last life, Purochana had been Prahasta, Ravana's uncle and commander-in-chief of his army . Karna's sons were Vrishasena, Vrishaketu, Banasena, Chitrasena, Satyasena, Sushena, Shatrunjaya, Dvipata and Prasena. In the epic, Yama is known by the named Dharmaraj. Shikhandi was born as a baby girl, named "Shikhandini," to Drupada, the king of Panchala, and his wife, Queen Kokila Devi. Used with permission. Nanda-gopa krishna's father. Shalya and Avantini's three sons were Madranjaya, Rukmanagada and Rukmanaratha. This led Drupada to performed a yajna from which Draupadi and Dhrishtadyumna emerged. Though the Bhāratas is a prominent community in the Rigveda, the story of Bharata is first told in the Adi Parva of the Mahabharata, wherein he is the son of Dushyanta and Shakuntala. Ancient Indian History, 1988, p 149, Madhavan Arjunan Pillai. Adhiratha was the foster father of Karna and the charioteer of Bheeshma. Parishrami was the chief maid of queens Ambika and Ambalika. After 10 month, some fishermen caught her, cut open her womb and found two children — Matsyagandha and Matsya. Samba was the husband of Lakshmanaa, Duryodhana's daughter. It has also been known as Kurukshetra since ancient Vedic times.[45]. He saved the life of a serpent Takshaka, the king of snakes, when the king Janamejaya organized a snake sacrifice known as Sarpa Satra, where he made great sacrifices of serpents, to avenge for the death of his father Parikshit. Unlike Ramayana, lord Hanuman doesn't have a large role in Mahabharata. This lineage continued for another 64 generations until 1634 BCE, where the last king Sumitra was killed by Chanakya's contemporary Mahapadma Nanda. She was the mother of Vidura and the mother-in-law of Sulabha. He fought in the Kurukshetra war for the Pandavas along with his father Drupada and brother Dhristadyumna. Later, he married Urvashi but she left him. Chandra had an affair with Tara, Brihaspati's wife. He was the father of Satyabhama, who was Bhumidevi's incarnation and Sri Krishna's third wife.[57][58]. When Bhima slayed his father, Krishna declared him to be the new ruler of Magadha. Ugrasena (Sanskrit: उग्रसेन) is a Yadava king in Mahabharata epic. There is a popular story about replacement of Krishna with Yashoda's daughter by Vasudeva after an agreement with Nanda. Dushala was the daughter of Dhritarashtra and Gandhari, the sister of the Kauravas and the wife of Jaydrath. Dhrishtaketu was the son of Chedi king Shishupala, who was a cousin of Krishna. Yudhishtira was the first among the five Pandavas and was blessed by death god Yama to Pandu and Kunti. He is famous for his role in the story of Syamantaka gem. However, when Dhristadyumna and Draupadi emerged from the fire, she was not present there. Names from Mahabharata, Names of 100 Kaurvas, Names of 5 Pandavas, Names of Arjuna Top only Modern Indian Names A-Z alphabetical Indian Names Gods & Goddess Names Ancient, Vedic, Epic names Sanskrit Boy baby names Sanskrit Girl baby names Names for your House, Villa Baby names from birth star Names by Hindu birth month Lucky number from name Tamil Tamizh baby names … When they wanted a powerful son, they prayed to Shiva, and a son named Ashwathama was born. Yaudheya was the son of Yudhishthira and Devika, and the grandson of Govasena, who was the king of Sivi Kingdom. Astika was a rishi, and he was a son of Jaratkaru by the serpent goddess Manasa – a sister of the great serpent king Vasuki.