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Subhadra (Sanskrit: सुभद्रा, IAST: Subhadrā) is a princess of Dvārakā mentioned in the Hindu epic Mahabharata. She is the sister of deities Krishna and Balarama in Hindu scriptures. Subhadra married Arjuna, one of the Pandava brothers and had a son named Abhimanyu.
Duryodhana (Sanskrit: दुर्योधन, IAST: Duryodhana), also known as Suyodhana, [1] [2] is the primary antagonist in the Hindu epic Mahabharata. He was the eldest of the Kauravas , the hundred sons of the king Dhritarashtra and his queen Gandhari .
Duryodhana's wife—named Bhanumati in later retelling—is a minor character is in Mahabharata, and mainly appears in the folk tales. [36] She is unnamed in the epic, but it is described that she was the princess of Kalinga Kingdom and was the daughter of Chitrangada. She was abducted by Duryodhana with the help of his friend Karna.
Though the princess marries Duryodhana in the original epic, in these folklores, she is named Ponnuruvi and is married to Karna because he was the one who touched her during the abduction. [8] Karna Moksham depicts her as abusive towards Karna as his lineage is not specified and she believes him to be of the lower caste.
Later, Arjun marries Subhadra, Krishna's sister. The Pandavas conduct the Rajasuya Yagna. Krishna kills off Shishupal and Duryodhan is insulted in the court. The prosperity of Indraprastha angers Duryodhana. A jealous Duryodhana summons Pandavas for a dice game, where Yudhishthira loses his kingdom, brothers, and their common wife Draupadi.
e: Duryodhana and his siblings were born at the same time, and they were of the same generation as their Pandava cousins. f : Although the succession after the Pandavas was through the descendants of Arjuna and Subhadra, it was Yudhishthira and Draupadi who occupied the throne of Hastinapura after the great battle.
Duryodhana argues that the Pandavas violated the condition of anonymity in their last year of exile, therefore they must spend another 12 years in exile followed by another year of exile in anonymity. This conflict begins to sow the seed for the Mahabharata War. Arjuna and Subhadra's son Abhimanyu marries Uttara.
Dhirithrastra wants Duryodhana to marry Subhadra. Amba meets Satyavati, Ambika and Ambalika. Satyavati, Ambika and Ambalika die in a forest fire. 078 Jarasandha's son Sahadeva asks Krishna for help. News of Satyavati, Ambika and Ambalika's death reaches Hasthinapura. Dushasana and Shakuni go to Dwaraka to seek Subhadra's hand in marriage to ...