Babhruvahana
Babhruvahana or Vabruvahana had a warrior rank of Ati-MahaRathi. Affiliation: Pandava. Babruvahana was one of the sons of Arjuna, begotten through Chitrangada, the prince of Manipur. During the Ashvamedha yagna, he killed his father Arjuna without knowing his identity. But Arjuna’s other wife Ulupi brought back his life with the help of Nagamani.
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“The battle that took, place between sire and son was incomparable. It resembled the encounter between the deities and the Asuras of old. Each was gratified with obtaining the other for an antagonist. Then Vabhruvahana, laughing, pierced the diadem-decked Arjuna, that foremost of men, in the shoulder with a straight shaft. Equipt with feathers, that shaft penetrated Arjuna’s body like a snake penetrating on an anthill. Piercing the son of Kunti through, the shaft went deep into the Earth. The mighty Vabhruvahana, thinking that his father was no longer able to face him, again afflicted him with many shafts resembling snakes of virulent poison. From a spirit of boyishness he then vigorously pierced his father in the breast with a whetted shaft equipt with excellent wings. That shaft, O king, penetrated the body of Pandu’s son and reaching his very vital caused him great pain. The delighter p. 137 of the Kurus, Dhananjaya, deeply pierced therewith by his son, then fell down in a swoon on the Earth, O king. When that hero, that bearer of the burthens of the Kuru’s fell down, the son of Chitrangada also became deprived of his senses.” – The Mahabharata, Book 14: Aswamedha Parva: Anugita Parva: Section LXXIX
