Vrishasena

Vrishasena

Vrishasena was the eldest son of Karna and Vrishali.[1] With his father, he entered battle field on the 11th day of Kurukshetra war and fought for Kauravas. He was killed by Arjuna.

Kurukshetra War

During the Kurukshetra war, Karna did not take part for the first ten days due to the dispute he had with Bhishma. Only when Bhishma fell on the tenth day, Karna and his son Vrishasena join the Kauravas to fight against Pandavas on the eleventh day in the Kurukshetra war. Arjuna gave the challenge to Karna to save his son and attacked Vrishasena fiercely and fired four razor headed arrows, cutting off Vrishasena's bow, his two arms and then his head infront of Karna karna failed to protect his son because Karna was inferior archer to Arjuna. As a revenge, Karna took part in Abhimanyu's killing. Arjuna killed Vrishasena without violating Dharma but Karna violated Dharma in killing Abhimanyu. First, Karna broke Abhimanyu's bow from behind, since it was impossinble to face an armed Abhimanyu and then finally Karna stabbed Abhimanyu from back, which are against the rules of he war.[2]

References

  1. ↑ "The Vishnu Purana: Book IV: Chapter XVIII". Sacred-texts.com. Missing or empty |url= (help)
  2. ↑ "Death of Vrishasena by hands of Arjuna".
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