CHAKRAVYUHA

This is a war between Pandavas and Kauravas. Dronacharya offers to create an

impenetrable labyrinth to assuage the Kauravas who are desperate with consistent losses. He instructs them that Arjuna should not be fighting in that part of the

battlefield at that time. Samasaptaka, a friend of Kauravas, organises a battle in the netherworlds. Abhimanyu seeks the permission of Dharmaraya to enter the labyrinth Chakravyuha. He begs his mother Subhadra who reluctantly blesses him. Abhimanyu later enters the Chakravyuha. Alas! He only knows how to enter it, but doesn’t know how to come out. Upon the instructions of Dronacharya, Karna chops off Abhuimanyu’s arms. Gadhadara, son of Dushyasana, kills Abhimanyu.