Yudhishthira (Sanskrit: युधिष्ठिर, IAST: Yudhiṣṭhira) also known as Dharmaraja, was the king of Indraprastha and later the King of Kuru Kingdom in the...
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Yudhishthira that he still had his wife Draupadi to place as a bet and if Yudhishthira won, he would return everything to the Pandavas. Yudhishthira fell...
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ancient Indian epic Mahabharata, and the wife of the five Pandava brothers—Yudhishthira, Bhima, Arjuna, Nakula, and Sahadeva. She is noted for her beauty, courage...
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11th day to the 15th day. The acharya fails four times in capturing Yudhishthira (The 11th day, 12th day, 14th day, and the 14th night). He was beheaded...
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Bhima went to Magadha and killed its mighty ruler, Jarasandha. Later Yudhishthira was invited by Duryodhana to play a game of dice, in which he lost. The...
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crucial role during the Rajasuya of Yudhishthira, where he conquered the kings of the South. After Yudhishthira lost all of his possessions to Duryodhana...
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Vidura's spirit entered Yudhishthira's body and Yudhishthira realised that he and Vidura belonged to same entity, Yama. Yudhishthira left Vidura's body in...
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playing against Yudhishthira with loaded dice. In the dice game, Yudhishthira loses all his wealth, then his kingdom. Yudhishthira then gambles his brothers...
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capital of Hastinapura, often forced into ceding the title to his cousin Yudhishthira, who was one of the Pandava brothers and older than he. Aided by his...
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of his eldest brother Yudhishthira, he conquered the kings of the Sivis, the Rohitakas and other dynasties. After Yudhishthira lost all his possessions...
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down Yudhishthira's bow, and Arjuna stops Drona from capturing Yudhishthira. Drona tells Duryodhana that it would be difficult to capture Yudhishthira as...
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cousin and an avatar of Vishnu, at the great coronation ceremony of Yudhishthira, as a punishment for his opprobrious abuse made against him. He is also...
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life has been served. Arjuna informs Yudhishthira of Vyasa's advise. Draupadi and his brothers agree. King Yudhishthira crowns Parikshit as the king of Hastinapur...
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brotherly bond. Yudhishthira promised to Shalya that he would kill him during the eve of the war. Prior to the start of the war, Yudhishthira met with his...
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Dhatreyika, who had witnessed Jayadratha forcefully carrying Draupadi away. Yudhishthira then ordered his younger brothers to rescue Draupadi. They rushed in...
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Dhritarashtra's children. Yudhishthira, Pandu's eldest son, was older than Duryodhana. Given that Pandu was the king and that Yudhishthira was the son of the...
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Yudhishthira has been proposed as the last Alchon Hun ruler of Kashmir, according to a reconstruction made by Atreyi Biswas. The tentative identification...
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cousins—the Pandavas. It was Shakuni who played the game of dice against Yudhishthira, one of the seminal events in the epic. Using his skills of manipulation...
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Abhimanyu was one of the four warriors who knew this skill, according to Yudhishthira. A later folklore adds that Abhimanyu learned this information from Arjuna...
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Śrutavindhya, Sanskrit: श्रुतविन्ध्य, lit. related to the Buddhi) was son of Yudhishthira and Draupadi and was the eldest of the Upapandavas. He was described...
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Mahabharata. Kunti was married to Pandu and is the mother of Karna, Yudhishthira, Bhima, and Arjuna. She is depicted to possess beauty, intelligence and...
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solstice). Before his death, he passed down the Vishnu Sahasranama to Yudhishthira. Bhishma is a revered figure in Hinduism. Each year his death anniversary...
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family bonds in order to side with dharma. As the war was about to begin, Yudhishthira made an announcement in the battlefield, saying anybody who wishes to...
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of Pandu, Yudhishthira. Arjuna inadvertently broke the pact with his brothers, intruding as he sought to collect weapons whilst Yudhishthira, was alone...
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commander of the armies. He promises Duryodhana that he will capture Yudhishthira, but he repeatedly fails to do so. Duryodhana taunts and insults him...
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slain in the Kurukshetra War). The Pandavas, led by Chakravarti Samrat Yudhishthira (who were the main protagonists of the Mahabharata). Parikshit III was...
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relationship with Radha, and Balrama's marriage with Revati, Nara-Narayana, and Yudhishthira being declared as the crown price of Indraprastha. Sarvadaman D. Banerjee...
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designated his nephew and the eldest son of Pandu, Yudhishthira, as the heir-apparent to the throne. Yudhishthira and his four brothers, called the Pandavas,...
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jealousy towards Kunti, the wife of Pandu, who had just given birth to Yudhishthira (the eldest of the five Pandava brothers). At this, a hardened mass of...
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Abhimanyu, the son of Arjuna. Abhimanyu and Uttara's son Parikshit succeeded Yudhishthira on the throne of Hastinapura, after the war of Mahabharata. He is the...
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