Yudhishthira (Sanskrit: युधिष्ठिर, IAST: Yudhiṣṭhira) also known as Dharmaraja, was the king of Indraprastha and later the King of Kuru Kingdom in the...

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...

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...

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...

crucial role during the Rajasuya of Yudhishthira, where he conquered the kings of the South. After Yudhishthira lost all of his possessions to Duryodhana...

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...

playing against Yudhishthira with loaded dice. In the dice game, Yudhishthira loses all his wealth, then his kingdom. Yudhishthira then gambles his brothers...

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...

of his eldest brother Yudhishthira, he conquered the kings of the Sivis, the Rohitakas and other dynasties. After Yudhishthira lost all his possessions...

down Yudhishthira's bow, and Arjuna stops Drona from capturing Yudhishthira. Drona tells Duryodhana that it would be difficult to capture Yudhishthira as...

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...

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...

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...

Dhatreyika, who had witnessed Jayadratha forcefully carrying Draupadi away. Yudhishthira then ordered his younger brothers to rescue Draupadi. They rushed in...

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...

Yudhishthira has been proposed as the last Alchon Hun ruler of Kashmir, according to a reconstruction made by Atreyi Biswas. The tentative identification...

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...

Mahabharata. Kunti was married to Pandu and is the mother of Karna, Yudhishthira, Bhima, and Arjuna. She is depicted to possess beauty, intelligence and...

Śrutavindhya, Sanskrit: श्रुतविन्ध्य, lit. related to the Buddhi) was son of Yudhishthira and Draupadi and was the eldest of the Upapandavas. He was described...

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...

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...

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...

commander of the armies. He promises Duryodhana that he will capture Yudhishthira, but he repeatedly fails to do so. Duryodhana taunts and insults him...

of Pandu, Yudhishthira. Arjuna inadvertently broke the pact with his brothers, intruding as he sought to collect weapons whilst Yudhishthira, was alone...

solstice). Before his death, he passed down the Vishnu Sahasranama to Yudhishthira. Bhishma is a revered figure in Hinduism. Each year his death anniversary...

slain in the Kurukshetra War). The Pandavas, led by Chakravarti Samrat Yudhishthira (who were the main protagonists of the Mahabharata). Parikshit III was...

relationship with Radha, and Balrama's marriage with Revati, Nara-Narayana, and Yudhishthira being declared as the crown price of Indraprastha. Sarvadaman D. Banerjee...

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,...

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...

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...