Abhimanyu
Quartigod son of Arjuna (Indra-paternal demigod) by Subhadrā (Krishna's sister). The Chakravyuha-breach death on day 13 of the Kurukshetra war is one of the most-cited tragic-injustice episodes in the entire Hindu tradition: the in-utero-learning of the entry-pattern but not the exit, the day-13 isolation when his fellow Pandavas were stopped at the gate by Jayadratha's Shiva-boon, the dharma-yuddha violation by six simultaneous attackers, and the resulting Arjuna pratijñā that drove the Jayadratha-vadha on day 14. Father of Parikshit by Uttarā — through Parikshit, ancestor of Janamejaya at whose snake-sacrifice the Mahābhārata is canonically narrated by Vaiśampāyana, making Abhimanyu the structural-genealogical hinge between the war-narrative and the frame-narrative of the epic itself.
Parentage
- father: ArjunaMahābhārata Ādi Parva 213-225 (primary)
Children
Domains
- archery and celestial weapons
Powers
- Invokes celestial weapons
- Pierces the wheel-array formation
Epithets
- सौभद्र son of SubhadraMahabharata, Drona Parva (primary)
- अर्जुनात्मज son of ArjunaMahabharata, Drona Parva (primary)
Relations
- father: ArjunaMahābhārata Ādi Parva 213-225 (primary)
- mother: Subhadrā (sister of Krishna; second wife of Arjuna) · HinduMahābhārata Ādi Parva 213-225 (primary)
- spouse: Uttarā (princess of Matsya, daughter of King Virāṭa) · HinduMarried Uttarā at the end of the Pandavas' year of disguise at Virāṭa's court — the marriage-alliance that secured Matsya support for the Pandava war effort.Mahābhārata Virāṭa Parva 67 (primary)
- father of: ParīkṣitMahābhārata Aśvamedhika Parva 65-69; Bhāgavata Purāṇa 1.12-19 (primary)
- half sibling: ŚrutakarmaHalf-brother through their shared father Arjuna; Shrutakarma is Arjuna's son by Draupadī (Upapāṇḍava cluster).Mahābhārata Ādi Parva 95.75, 213-225 (primary)
- half sibling: IrāvānHalf-brother through their shared father Arjuna; Iravan is Arjuna's son by Ulūpī.Mahābhārata Ādi Parva 213.11-13 (primary)
- half sibling: BabhruvāhanaHalf-brother through their shared father Arjuna; Babhruvāhana is Arjuna's son by Citrāṅgadā of Maṇipūra.Mahābhārata Ādi Parva 214; Āśvamedhika Parva 79-81 (primary)
- killed by: Six Kaurava warriors at the Chakravyuha (Drona, Karṇa, Kṛpa, Aśvatthāmā, Bṛhadbala, Kṛtavarmā — the dharma-yuddha violation) · HinduMahābhārata Droṇa Parva 47-48 (primary)