Who was the greatest character in Mahabharat?

The most important characters of Mahabharata can be said to include: Krishna; the Pandavas — Yudhishthira, Bheema, Arjuna, Nakula and Sahadeva, along with their wife Draupadi; and the Kauravas (who were a hundred brothers), led by the eldest brother, Duryodhana.

Who is dharma in Mahabharata?

The god Dharma, under a curse, had to come to earth as a human and Dharma was born as Vidura (Mbh: Adi parva: adhhaya: 100: sloka: 33). The latter is thus Dharma and the principal practitioner of dharma throughout the tumultuous events of the epic. There are no transgressions on his part in word or deed.

Who is elder duryodhana or Yudhisthira?

Yudhistir was older than Duryodhan. Bhimsen and Duryodhan were of same age. Once Dhrutrastra ask Rushi (Sage) Vyas that he and Gandhari want a child having mighty as well as intellectual.

Who is Yudhisthira in Mahabharata?

In the Hindu epic Mahabharata, Yudhisthira ( Sanskrit: युधिष्ठिर, yudhiṣṭhira) was the eldest son of King Pandu and Queen Kunti and the king of Indraprastha and later of Hastinapura (Kuru). He was the leader of the successful Pandava side in the Kurukshetra War. At the end of the epic, he ascended to heaven.

What is the meaning of dharma-yuddha?

Dharma-yuddha is a Sanskrit word made up of two roots: dharma (धर्म) meaning righteousness, and yuddha (युद्ध) meaning warfare. In the Hindu Scriptures, dharma-yuddha refers to a war that is fought while following several rules that make the war fair. For instance, in a righteous war, equals fight equals.

What is the caste system in the Mahabharata?

The Mahabharata is peopled by the ‘higher’ castes but there are important personages from the ‘lower’ castes whose presence gives a radical salience to ‘dharma’ as set out in the epic, to the point of even suggesting a subversion of the dominant ideology.

How many times does Vyasa appear in the Mahabharata?

According to one calculation, he makes as many as 42 appearances in the Mahabharata and out of these 38 are absolutely critical (Hiltebeitel: 2001: 46) In some cases, without Vyasa’s intervention as a character the narrative or the story would come to a standstill. Let us take two notable examples.