Jayadratha - Arjuna's Revenge

Arjuna's Revenge

Dronacharya arranged a combination of 3 vyoohas in order to protect Jayadratha from Arjuna. Bheema, Satyaki and Arjuna all put together destroyed 5 Akshauhini of Kaurava army. At a climactic moment, the sun had nearly set and thousands of warriors were still between Arjuna and Jayadratha. Krishna soon realised that Arjuna was unable to reach Jayadratha before sunset. So, he sent his Sudarshana Chakra to in order to mask the sun and thereby causing a solar eclipse in order to create an illusion of sunset. The Kaurava warriors rejoiced over Arjuna's defeat and were looking forward for his imminent suicide. Jayadratha came before Arjuna and laughed at Arjuna's defeat. In the meantime, the Sun appeared suddenly. Then, Krishna suggested Arjuna that the sun has not yet set. He pointed his hand towards Jayadratha and asked Arjuna to kill him without wasting further time. Arjuna then invoked the most powerful of his weapons, the Pashupatastra which was given to him by Lord Shiva, which decapitated Jayadratha's head. In order to avoid Jayadrath's head from falling on the ground, Krishna advised Arjuna to instruct Pasthupatastra in such a way that the head gets carried and fall on the lap of Vridhakshtra. Vridhakshtra was meditating in a place very close to the battlefield. The head of Jayadratha gets carried and fell into his father's lap. His father got up in shock as he did not know what fell on his lap. The head of his son falls on the ground and his head bursts into 100 pieces and gets killed. Thus, Vridhakshtra becomes the victim of his own boon granted to his son. Thus, Lord Krishna saved Arjuna and saw to it that both Jayadratha and Vridhakshtra are killed in the same stroke.