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Uttarā (Sanskrit: उत्तरा, romanized: Uttarā) was the princess of Matsya, as described in the Hindu epic Mahabharata.She was the daughter of King Virata and Queen Sudeshna, at whose court the Pandavas spent a year in concealment during their exile.
Arjuna Sets Kama's Arrow Alight, folio from the Razmnama (Book of War), 1598–99. Uttara is the son of Virata in Mahabharata. Towards the end of the year that the Pandavas spent at the Matsya Kingdom, Duryodhana, suspecting that the Pandavas were hiding in Matsya kingdom, launched an attack.
Uttara Madra is a kingdom grouped among the western kingdoms in the epic Mahabharata. It is identified to be located to the northwest of eastern Madra with Sagala as its capital.
Uttara, Uttarā, Shankha In the Hindu epic Mahabharata , Sudeshna was the wife of King Virata , at whose court the Pandavas spent a year in concealment during their exile. She was the mother of Uttar , Uttara and Shankha .
Virata was married to Queen Sudeshna and was the father of Prince Uttara and Princess Uttarā, who married Abhimanyu, the son of Arjuna. Abhimanyu and Uttara's son Parikshit succeeded Yudhishthira on the throne of Hastinapura, after the war of Mahabharata. He is the titular character of the Virata Parva, the fourth book of the epic Mahabharata [1]
Adhiratha was the foster-father of Karna. According to the Bhagavata Purana, Adhiratha was descended from Yayati and therefore was related to Krishna.He was also the descendant of Romapada, [7] the king of Anga and brother-in-law of Dasharatha's descendant Shighra, king of Ayodhya.
Dushala (Sanskrit: दुश्शला, romanized: Duśśalā), sometimes spelled as Duhshala, was the princess of Hastinapura, and the only daughter of King Dhritarashtra and Queen Gandhari in the Hindu epic Mahabharata. [1]
In that fierce combat, the mighty Bhishma aims many low-level, air-borne celestial weapons at Abhimanyu, who is then protected by ten great bowmen and car-warriors, with Bhima, Dhrishtadyumna, and Satyaki among them. Uttara engages Shalya, cripples Shalya's chariot. Shalya then hurls an iron dart, slaying Uttara outright.