Mahaabhaarat
Abhimanyu Abhimanyu is the Mahaabhaarat character. His life span is the shortest in the whole Mahaabhaarat according to his work, but is very important and powerful. In fact Mahaabhaarat doesn't complete without the mention of Abhimanyu. Abhimanyu was the youngest and the bravest teenage warrior of Mahaabhaarat war. He was only 16 years old and he fought with seven greatest warriors of Kaurav army. It was the black day in Mahaabhaarat war when he alone was killed by seven greatest warriors of Kaurav army in an unjustified way. Abhimanyu was Arjun and Subhadraa's (Krishn's younger sister) son. He was the disciple of Shree Krishn. When he was 16 years of age, he was killed in Mahaabhaarat's war fighting with a great bravery. Drone's Chakra Vyooh One Version, Another Version Everybody knew that till Arjun was in the battlefield, it was impossible to defeat Paandav in war, so Drone created a Padm (Chakra) Vyooh (a special arrangement of army) for Paandav which was impossible to break in for all except Arjun and Krishn. So Drone planned it in such a day that Arjun should be taken away somewhere far from the battlefield on that day, so that he cannot attend that Vyooh, and Drone could could arrest Yudhishthir. In fact he promised to Duryodhan to arrest him, but two days had passed and he was not able to arrest him because Arjun's vigilance. That is why on 3rd day of his commandership he planned it like this. So the day he created this Vyooh (13th day of war), Arjun was intentionally kept away from the battleground. Susharmaa took him away. Abhimanyu knew how to enter it, but he didn't know how to come out from it. So when Paandav heard about the creation of Chakra Vyooh and didn't find Arjun among them, Abhimanyu offered that he could go inside, but he didn't know how to come out of it. At this his uncles assured him that they will work as his backup and as soon as he would enter the first gate (there were seven gates in it) they would also enter the gate along with him and this way they would be able to follow him till the end. So he went there and Paandav also went with him. He bravely went inside the Vyooh. As the soldiers stood outside were instructed to let come anybody who wanted to come inside so he had no difficulty in entering but Kaurav army was not a fool, they let Abhimanyu come inside but stopped Paandav outside the gate and didn't allow them to enter. So Abhimanyu was alone there inside the Vyooh. He proceeded forward, rather Kaurav army allowed him to come in. He fought with all great seven warriors (Dronaachaarya, Kripaacharya, Duryodhan, Karn, Ashwatthaamaa, Shakuni and Jayadrath) together. Since he did not know coming out of that Chakra Vyooh, he could not come out and he had to fight till his last breath. He could not hold them all together for long. He lost his bow, his chariot was broken, his charioteer was killed, and soon he was without any weapon to defend himself. He fought with a wheel of chariot also but for how long he could fight with that wheel with those seven worriors? Bleeding and dazed he fell down on the ground. Although Drone advised others not to attack him further but Jayadrath didn't listen to him. He kicked him with his foot and killed him with his sword. The news of Abhimanyu's death spread all over very quickly. Kaurav were shouting with joy and Paandav were very angry and sad. That was the black day of the war period. He was married to Uttaraa, princess of Viraat Desh, daughter of Raajaa Viraat. How Did He Know to Enter the Chakra Vyooh How he knew entering that Vyooh, that is quite a story. When he was in the womb of Subhadraa, she was living with Krishn. So one day Krishn was telling all this to Subhadraa. Abhimanyu was listening it in the womb. But when the time came to tell about coming out of this Vyooh, Subhadraa slept, thus he could not hear Krishn's words any more. Since he remembered how to enter the Vyooh, later when he was born and grown up, he asked Krishn the way out to that Vyooh. At that time Krishn told him to find it out this from his father Arjun. He was trained in the art of war by Krishn Himself. He passed his test of fighting when he could defeat Saatyaki. and He used to say to Subhadraa, "Your son will be a great warrior in the history of Bhaarat Varsh and people will take his name with a great honor." Subhadraa was so young that she could not understand its meaning. It was true, when he died fighting with seven great warriors, he was only 16 years old.
My Note 2. We also know that Krishn could not have fought, because He had already vowed not to take any weapon in His hand during the whole war. That is why He could not help Arjun in fighting with Karn. Karn had only one aim "to kill Arjun" and Karn was capable of doing that. But Krishn couldn't let have Arjun killed by Karn and Karn could not be killed by anybody, because of his Kavach and Kundal. It means if Arjun had gone to Chakra Vyooh, Karn must have killed him. He was looking for him only. Since only two people knew in Paandav army "how to enter Chakra Vyooh", Abhimanyu was the second choice left in absence of Arjun with no other alternative. -- But if Krishn knew so much then why didn't He plan to take Karn's Kavach and Kundal away from him even when Bheeshm was the army chief of Kaurav army? Maybe it was not in His control. So one had to be sacrificed, either Arjun and Abhimanyu; and Krishn had to sacrifice Abhimanyu, because He had already promised Indra to take care of His son, Arjun, at the time of lifting Govardhan Parvat in Gokul. Actually I read this plea somewhere on Net, but I am not clear about this plea, because Karn's Kavach and Kundal were already taken by Indra even before war began. Then what was the fear? And Arjun was invincible, that is why there was no fear for him too. There was no fear of that Power also which Indra gave to Karn in exchange of his Kavach and Kundal, because it was meant to be used only once and that Power was meant to kill Arjun only. Karn could not have afforded to lose it on anybody else. How the Chakra Vyooh was Created? After Abhimanyu
entered the first ring, he found second ring solider faced
toward outside, so he entered the second ring. After Abhimanyu crossed the
second ring all solider kept their face outside, so Abhimanyu could't come out of
the second ring because second ring soldiers' back was towards Abhimanyu so Abhimanyu also couldn't backstab any solider;
and if he did that was A-Dharm. Same way he entered inside the other circles and couldn't come out of
the Vyooh because of the soldiers' positioning and died inside only.
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Created
by Sushma Gupta
On 05/27/04
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Modified on 02/04/05