Great characters of Mahabharat

10 Great Characters of Mahabharat who always go Unnoticed

Everyone knows about the epic Mahabharat and the main characters of it. But there were some characters too who played important role in the war, however, they are not remembered or talked much about. I want to introduce you about 10 such characters of Mahabharat who had a major role to play, but are still unknown to many.

Ahilavati
Ahilavati is also known as Nag kanya (snake’s daughter). She was married to Bhim’s son Ghatotkach. To marry Ahilavati, Ghatotkach had to take a lot of tests and prove himself. Ahilavati was the mother of Barbareek, who had taught her children to take care of weak and losers.

Jarasandh
Jarasandh was the king of Magadh. He was a big devotee of Lord Shiva. He had a negative nature and was killed by Bhim. When Bhim had cut Jarasandh into two halves, his body joined again. Then on Krishna’s advice, Bhim cut his body from the centre into many parts, which flew into different directions far away from the centre point and hence his body could not be joined again.

Barbareek
Barbareek was the son of Ghatotkach and Ahilavati. Actually he was a yaksha who had reincarnated as a human. He was the grandson of Bhim.

Yuyutsu
Yuyutsu was Dhritrashtra’s son. Dhritrashtra had married a princess named Saivali whose son was Yuyutsu. He was younger to Duryodhan, but elder to other 98 Kauravas. After the war of Mahabharat, Yuyutsu was the only Kaurava alive who later became the king of Indraprastha.

Vikarna
Vikarna was the younger brother of Duryodhan who was one of the 100 Kaurava sons of Dhritrashtra and Gandhari. During Draupadi’s cheer haran, Vikarna was the only Kaurava who had raised his voice against the act.

Shalya
Shalya was the king of Madra. Duryodhan had kept him on his side to fight against the Pandavas in Mahabharat. Shalya was killed by Yudhishthir.

Shikhandi
Shikhandi was born to Panchal Naresh Drupad as an impotent. He fought the war siding the Pandavas. Making Shikhandi his shield, Arjun had killed Bhishma pitamah.

Vajra
Vajra was the grandson of Krishna, Son of king Anirudh.

Eklavya
Eklavya was the prince of a tribal area. He wanted to learn to use Dhanush Ban from Guru Dronacharya, but because of his caste, Dronocharya refused to teach him. He then learnt to use the weapon on his own by seeing Dronacharya teaching others in hiding. Slowly, he became even better than Arjun in using this weapon. When Dronacharya came to know about it, he got scared for Arjun and asked for Eklavya’s thumb as his fees. He immediately cut it and gave it to him.