gandiva is what the arjun's bow was called in mahabharat.
gandiva is what the arjun's bow was called in mahabharat.
what is the arjun's bow called in mahabharat?
gandiva
in the mahabharat, the pandavs are known to have spent their thirteenth year of exile in disguise in the kingdom of virat. before going to virata, they are known to have hung their celestial weapons in a shami tree for safekeeping for a year. bhima kills kichak. hearing about the death of kichak, duryodhan surmises that the pandavs were hiding in matsya. a host of kaurav warriors attacks virat, presumably to steal their cattle, but in reality, desiring to pierce the pandavs' veil of anonymity. full of bravado, virat's son uttar attempts to take on the army by himself while the rest of the matsya army has been lured away to fight susharma and the trigartas. as suggested by draupadi, uttar takes brihannala with him, as his charioteer. when he sees the kaurav army, uttar loses his nerve and attempts to flee. then arjun reveals his identity and those of his brothers'. arjun takes uttar to the tree where the pandavs hid their weapons. arjun picks up his gandiva after worshipping the tree, as the shami tree safeguarded the pandavs’ weapons for that complete year. arjun reties the thread of gandiva, simply drags and releases it - which produces a terrible twang. at the same point of time, kaurav warriors were eagerly waiting to spot pandavs. dispute chats took place between karn and dron. karn told duryodhan that he would easily defeat arjun and doesn’t feel threatened by drona’s words since drona was intentionally praising arjuna, as arjuna was a favorite student of drona. ashwatthama supports his father by praising arjun. then arjun arrives on the battlefield. . eager to defend the land that had given him refuge, arjun engaged the legion of kaurav warriors. the battle starts between arjun and the entire kuru army. all the warriors including bhishma, dron, karn, kripa and ashwathama together attacked arjun to kill him, but arjun defeated all of them multiple times.. during the battle, arjun also killed sangramjit, the foster brother of karn, and instead of taking revenge for his brother, karn fled in order to save his life from arjun. karn tried to fly away from arjuna but he could not since arjun invoked sammohanaastra which made the entire army fall asleep.. this is the war in which arjun proved that he was the best archer in the world at his time. in this way arjuna alone defeated the entire kuru army consisting of ten thousands of soldiers, maharathis : bhishma, drona, karna ; atirathis : kripa, ashwatthama. one of the names of arjuna is vijaya - ever victorious. this incident took place on the same day in which lord raam killed ravan. as it was arjun’s day, the day also became popular as “vijaya dashami”.
vijayadashami
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mahabharat katha is an indian television series. this show contains portions and stories left out of mahabharat (1988 tv series). it was produced by b. r. chopra. and directed by his son ravi chopra. the cast and crew were the same as the original series, except some actors like nitish bhardwaj who played krishna in the original series was replaced by rishabh shukla.









































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bullet::::- rishabh shukla - krishna









































bullet::::- bijay anand - babruvahan









































bullet::::- deepak jethi - barbarik









































bullet::::- arjun (firoz khan) - arjun









































bullet::::- praveen kumar - bheem









































bullet::::- aman verma - vrishketu
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