Kurukshetra War Day-13

Kurukshetra War Day-13

Duryodhana summoned King Bhagadatta, the monarch of Prajayogastha (modern day Assam, India). Bhagadatta had thousands of mammoth, gigantic elephants in his stable. He was considered the strongest warrior on this planet in elephant warfare. Bhagadatta attacked Arjuna with his gigantic elephant. It was a fierce battle in which Bhagadatta matched Arjuna astra for astra. On the other side of the Kurukshetra battlefield, the remaining four Pandavas & their allies were finding it impossible to break Dronacharya's Chakravyuh formation. As Arjuna was busy fighting with the Trigartadesa princes and the Prajayogastha monarch on the other side of the battlefield, he could not be summoned to break the Chakravyuh formation. The Chakravyuh formation could only be broken by entering the formation and exiting the formation. Then king Yudhisthira instructed Abhimanyu, one of Arjuna's sons to break the Chakravyuh formation, as apart from Arjuna, Abhimanyu knew the secret of entering the Chakravyuh formation, but did not know how to exit it. Eventually he was trapped under the Chakravyu which led to his death.

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