Irāvān
Hindu · quartigod · dvapara yuga · Recorded classification
Quartigod son of Arjuna (Indra-paternal demigod) by Ulūpī (nāga princess). The half-nāga maternal blood marks him as the canonical liminal-Pāṇḍava-line figure. Killed by Alambuṣa on day 8 of Kurukshetra in the BORI Critical Edition; the Tamil-tradition Kūttāntavar cult expansion (Villiputtūr Āḻvār's Tamil Bhāratam, c.14th c.) develops his self-sacrifice-as-kalappali-with-the-Mohinī-marriage as the central narrative of the modern Aravan/Kūttāntavar transgender-religious-festival tradition at Koovagam in Tamil Nadu — but the underlying BORI death-by-Alambuṣa is the primary attestation.
Parentage
- father: ArjunaMbh. Ādi Parva 213.11-13 (primary)
Powers
- Wields illusion (māyā) in battle
Relations
- father: ArjunaMbh. Ādi Parva 213.11-13 (primary)
- mother: Ulūpī (nāga princess, daughter of Kauravya king of the Nāgas) · HinduMbh. Ādi Parva 213.11-13 (primary)
- half sibling: ŚrutakarmaHalf-brother through their shared father Arjuna; Shrutakarma is Arjuna's son by Draupadī (Upapāṇḍava cluster).Mbh. Ādi Parva 95.75 (primary)
- half sibling: AbhimanyuHalf-brother through their shared father Arjuna; Abhimanyu is Arjuna's son by Subhadrā.Mbh. Ādi Parva 213-225 (primary)
- half sibling: BabhruvāhanaHalf-brother through their shared father Arjuna; Babhruvāhana is Arjuna's son by Citrāṅgadā. Per Āśvamedhika Parva 81, Ulūpī revives Arjuna after Babhruvāhana's patricide using the saṃjīvana-maṇi — making Iravan's mother the agent of half-sibling Babhruvāhana's redemption.Mbh. Ādi Parva 214; Āśvamedhika Parva 79-81 (primary)
- killed by: Alambuṣa (rākṣasa sent by Duryodhana) · HinduMbh. Bhīṣma Parva 90.55-83 (primary)