One evening during the happy days between the establishment of the Pandava kingdom in Indraprastha and the infamous game of dice, Krishna and Arjuna were relaxing on the banks of the river Yamuna when suddenly they were approached by a venerable looking old man with a flowing beard. This man announced that he was the Lord Agni and that he had a request to make of them. He had been trying to burn the Khandava Forest(located near the banks of the river) for a long while but he had been thwarted every single time by Lord Indra who immediately made his beloved thunderclouds shower rain on the forest everytime the burning started. This was due to the fact that Takshaka, the Lord of a Naga tribe lived in that forest and he was a close friend of Indra. So,Agni asked for the help of Krishna and Arjuna to ward off Indra while he burned the forest. And so, the burning commenced. Arjuna and Krishna patrolled along the sides of the forest and sent back all animals who tried to escape.And Arjuna and Krishna created a wall above the forest with their arrows and chakras respectively to ward off the rain which had started almost immediately. Takshaka was not present in the forest during the burning but his wife and his son Aswasena were present. Aswasena's mother distracted the two princes in order to enable her son's escape. She was immediately killed by Arjuna but in the clamour Aswasena escaped. Grieved by his mother's death, he swore revenge on Arjuna and waited for his chance to strike for a long time.
Whew, pretty long story...the question is...Aswasena reappears sometime later in the Mahabharata to exact his revenge. When did he come for his revenge and how did Arjuna escape him?
(Be as specific as possible with your answer...)
Answer:
Aswasena reappears when Karna is fighting Arjuna...He manifests himself in the Naga Astra that Karna sends towards Arjuna...And Krishna saves him by pressing the knees of the horses into the ground...I asked this because this is not mentioned in Wiki..the part where Takshaka poisons Parikshit and Janemejaya launches war on the Nagas is given clearly in Wiki...But there's not much said about the return of Aswasena...nothing at all about the way he comes back...
Answered correctly by Jagdheesh singaram, Rahul Raghuraman, Aravind and dreameramir.
5 comments:
aswasena becomes an arrow in karna's quiver and he's shot st arjuna, but arjuna was rescued by krishna's interference and aswasena hits his crown instead
To extract his revenge, Aswasena disguised himself as an arrow in Karna's quiver during the famous battle between Karna and Arjuna. Arjuna was saved as his charioteer Krishna made the horses' feet sink one cubit into the ground. The resulting arrow(Aswasena) struck Arjuna's helmet.
gud q da .... probably 2 trviaish ...
the thing is aswesana reappears as maya who fights arjuna when he is duelling with karna ..... the betteer q would have been as to how takshaka got his revenge ..... for which the answer would have been that he was the one who poisoned parakshit (Arjuna's grandson)
the answer to ur qn is dat aswasena enters the quiver of karna as a snake arrow... and tries to fly at arjuna thru karna's bow. But then krishna saves arjuna, by pressing down the chariot into mud. however, arjuna's crown is knocked off. Then aswasena again goes back to karna and asks him to once again unleash him, but karna refuses, saying dats nt dharma.
den aswasena himself tries to attack arjuna but is killed by him
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