Abhimanyu: Your Complete Guide to the Mahabharata Hero

Abhimanyu is one of four sons of Arjuna, the third Pandava in the Mahabharata.

His mother is Subhadra who – as the sister of Balarama and Krishna – is the princess of Dwaraka, the impregnable fortress city built on the shores of the Western sea.

Abhimanyu plays a largely invisible part in the Mahabharata until the thirteenth day of the war, during which he takes on the might of the Kaurava army on his own. He penetrates a complex military formation called the Chakra Vyuha: the ‘wheel strat...