Drupada

Drupada
Drupada
	an 18th-century Kangra painting of Drupada with the Pandavas
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Weapon	Gada, Bow and Arrow
Family	Prishata (father); Suchitra (brother)
Spouse	Prishati
Children	Dhrishtadyumna, Shikhandi, Satyajita, Uttamaujas, Yudhamanyu and other sons; Draupadi (daughter)

Drupada (Sanskrit: द्रुपद, lit. 'firm footed or pillar'^[1]), also known as Yajnasena (Sanskrit: यज्ञसेन, lit. 'he whose army is sacrificial', IAST: Yajñasena),^[2] is the king of the southern part of Panchala Kingdom, in the Hindu epic Mahabharata. He is the father of Draupadi, the epic's lead female character. In the Kurukshetra War as the head of 1 akshauhini army, Drupada fought from the side of his sons-in-law, the Pandavas, and was killed by his childhood friend and rival, Drona.

^ "Sanskrit Dictionary for Spoken Sanskrit". spokensanskrit.de. Archived from the original on 15 October 2014. Retrieved 20 May 2015.
^ Hiltebeitel, Alf (17 August 2011). Dharma: Its Early History in Law, Religion, and Narrative. Oxford University Press, USA. ISBN 978-0-19-539423-8.

[spokensanskrit-1] "Sanskrit Dictionary for Spoken Sanskrit". spokensanskrit.de. Archived from the original on 15 October 2014. Retrieved 20 May 2015.

[2] Hiltebeitel, Alf (17 August 2011). Dharma: Its Early History in Law, Religion, and Narrative. Oxford University Press, USA. ISBN 978-0-19-539423-8.

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