Battle between Arjuna's son Babhruvahana and the Nagas Razmnama, c. 1598

Babruvahana or Babhruvahana is a character in the Mahabharata, a Hindu epic. He is one of the sons of Arjuna, begotten through Chitrangada, the princess of Manipura, during the period of his exile at Manipura.

Babruvahana was adopted as the son of his maternal grandfather, and reigned at Manipura as his successor. He dwelt there in a palace of great splendour, surrounded with wealth and signs of power.

When Arjuna went to Manipura with the horse intended for the Aswamedha, there was a quarrel between Arjuna and King Babhruvahana, and the latter killed his father with an arrow. Repenting of his deed, he determined to kill himself, but he obtained from his stepmother, the Naga princess Uloopi, a gem which restored Arjuna to life. He returned with his father to Hastinapura.^[1] This was on account of a curse by the Vasus, on account of Arjuna's killing Bhishma (who is an incarnation of one of the Vasus) during the Mahābhārata war.

Arjuna is killed by his son Babhnu Vahana in battle,-A COMPOSITE RAZMNAMA ILLUSTRATION CIRCA 1616

The story of Babruvahana is made into films in Telugu in 1942 and 1964 and in Kannada in 1977.

Kannada film that was made in 1977 written and directed by Hunsur Krishna Murthy ,starring Rajkumar as Arjuna and Babruvahana in Dual role, B. Saroja Devi as Chitrāngadā,, Kanchana as Uloopi and Jayamala as Subhadra

Telugu film that was made in 1964 written and directed by Samudrala Raghavacharya and starring N. T. Rama Rao and Chalam.

Bibliography[link]

• Mazumdar, Subash (1988). Who is Who in the Mahabharata. Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan. p. 32. http://books.google.com/books?id=omspAAAAYAAJ. 
• Laura Gibbs, Ph.D. Modern Languages MLLL-4993. Indian Epics.
• Dowson's Classical Dictionary of Hindu Mythology

References[link]

External links[link]

• Babhruvahana in Encyclopedia for Epics of Ancient India

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