

Kaunteya (कौन्तेय) – son of Kunti – after his mother.Pārtha (पार्थ) – son of Pritha (or Kunti) – after his mother.Mahābāhu (महाबाहु) – one with large and strong arms.Phālguṇa (फाल्गुण) – born under the star Uttara Phalguni ( Denebola in Leo).Jiṣṇu (जिष्णु) – triumphant, conqueror of enemies.Kirīṭī (किरीटी) – one who wears the celestial diadem presented by the King of Gods, Indra.Bībhatsu (बीभत्सु) – one who always fights wars in a fair, stylish and terrific manner and never does anything horrible in the war.Shvetavāhana (श्वेतवाहन) – one with milky white horses mounted to his pure white chariot.Savyasāchī (सव्यसाची)– one who can shoot arrows using the right and the left hand with equal activity Ambidextrous.Vijaya (विजय) – always victorious, invincible and undefeatable.Guḍākesha (गुडाकेश) – one who has conquered sleep (the lord of sleep, Gudaka+isha) or one who has abundant hair ( Guda-kesha).Dhanañjaya (धनञ्जय) – one who conquered wealth and gold.But Arjun is known by many other names, such as: At the end of the epic the Pandavas, accompanied by Draupadi, retire to the Himalayas, where everyone in time passes away to arrive in Heaven.Īccording to Monier Monier-Williams, the word Arjuna means white, clear or silver. Despite being a warrior, Arjuna also possessed skills in music and dance.

During his second exile, Arjuna gained many celestial weapons. From his four wives, Arjuna had four sons, one from each wife - Shrutakarma, Iravan, Babhruvahana and Abhimanyu. During his first exile, Arjuna married Ulupi, Chitrāngadā and Subhadra. Arjuna is twice exiled, first for breaking a pact with his brothers, and again with his brothers after his oldest brother is tricked into gambling away the throne. In the Mahabharata, Arjuna is depicted as a skilled archer from an early age, as a student who earns the favor of his preceptor Drona, as the primary adversary of Kauravas, and the betrothed of Draupadi, who became the common wife of the Pandavas. Īrjuna was the son of Kunti, the wife of Kuru King Pandu, and the god Indra, who fathered him due to Pandu's curse. Before the beginning of the war, his mentor Krishna gave him the supreme knowledge of the Bhagavad Gita to overcome his moral dilemmas. In the Mahabharata War, Arjuna was a key warrior from the Pandava side and killed many warriors. In the epic he is the third of five Pandava brothers, from the lineage of the Kuru. Arjuna ( Sanskrit: अर्जुन, IAST: Arjuna), also known as Partha and Dhananjaya, is the central figure, a protagonist of the Hindu epic Mahabharata.
