j a y a d r a t h a * MODERN S/NDH amar chitra katha

YES. THEY INVITED THE R4ND4VAS 70 PLAY A GAME OF DICE. THOUGH THE STAKE WAS HIGH, THE COULDN’T REFUSE. JAYAPRATHA THE LOSERS WOULD THE PANDAVAS FELL SURRENDER ALL RIGHTS TO FOR THAT? DIDN’T THEY THEIR KINGDOM AND GO KNOW MY UNCLE, , INTO EXILE FOR THIRTEEN WOULD HELP MY k . YEARS. V BROTHERS TO WIN?y

THE R4NDAVAS ARE SIMPLETONS. AND YUDHI • • • NATURALLY, SHAKUNI \ I FEEL A SHTHIRA, THE ELDEST WON THE 6AM E FOR LITTLE , ALLOWED WITH HIS /SORRY FOR SHAKUNI TO CAST THE v TRICKS. HA! HA! HA* THE PANDAVAS DIE FOR DURYODHANA- THEY HAVE u,TO PAY A \ HARD PRICE.

NO, DUHSHALA, IT’S A GOOD THIN© FOR US. u S 3 3 3 l YOUR BROTHERS WILL RULE AT HASTINAPURA AND WE STAND TO . GAIN BY THAT. ^

3 amar chitra katha MEANWH/LE THE PANDAVAS — YUDH/SHTH/RA , BH/MA, , AND 3AHADEVA — WITH THEIR W/FE, , HAD REACHED THE KAMVAKA FOREST. LATER THEIR COUSIN, ^ , A N D O TH ER RELATIVES AND FRIENDS VISITED THEM . VUDHISHTHIRA, I AMl FURIOUS AT THIS INJUSTICE. I WILL SLAY THE WICKED KAURAV45 AND INSTALL YOU A 6 A IN H ONI THE THRONE, WE WERE PASSING BY WHEN HE SAW YOU. HE WISHES TO KNOW WHO YOU ARE.

DRAUPAD! RECEIVED JAYADRATHA W/TH DUE COURTESY. O KING, ACCEPT WATER TO WASH YOUR FEET. I AM PLEASED TO DO THIS SERVICE FOR YOU ON BEHALF OF

m 5 a mar chitra katha JAYADRATHA

. IT WAS NOT LONG BEFORE THE PANDAVAS DISCOVERED THAT DRAUFAD/ HAD BEEN ABDUCTED . m M E D IA T E L Y THEY SET OUT IN SEARCH OF HER.

IN THE BATTLE THAT FOLLOWED, THE PANDAVAS JAYADRATHA FLED FOR HIS LIFE SCATTERED JAYADRATHA >S ARMY. LEAVIAie DRAUPAD/ BEHIND . amar chitra katha DRAUPADI, GO BACK ME FOR THE WITH VUDHISHTHIRA. AA / SAKE OF OUR AND I WILL PURSUE T / COUSIN, SCOUNDREL. / DUHSHALA, DO NOT SLAY JAYADRA­ THA, THOUGH HE IS SO WICKED!

JAYADRATHA WAS UNAWARE THAT BH/MA AND ARJUNA WERE ON H/S TRAIL .

W I’ VE ' HAD A CLEAR START. THE PANDAVAS CAN’T OVERTAKE ME NOW. A

• • • AND STARTED TO RUN . JAYADRATHA a mar chitra katha JAYADRATHA H E WENT TO THE BANKS OF THE MANY YEARS PASSED BY. AT L A S T LORD AND, IMPLORING THE PROTECTION OF SH/VA APPEARED BEFORE, HIM. LO R D 6 H /V A , HE OBSERVED SEVERE PENANCES.

JAYADRATHA RETURNED 70 Me THEN HE BEGAN HIS REVENGE . l------^ ------F ° % THE PANDAVAS HAVE COMPLETED THEIR PERIOD OF EXILE. WILL DURVODHANA RESTORE THEIR KINGDOM TO THEM? I HOPE MOT. a mar chitra katha

THE GREAT WAR BETWEEN ■ THE AND THE PANPAVAS WAS FOU0HT ON THE FIELD OF . WITH KRISHNA DRIVING HIS CHARIOT, ARJUNA AT­ TACKED THE FORCES W/TH LIGHTNING SPEED. ON THE TENTH DAY OF

DRONA TOOK H/S PLACE AS COMMANDERy BUT THE KAURAVAS CONTINUED JAYADRATHA

60 ON THE TH/RTEENTH DAY OF THE BATTLE, Th)E SAMSHAPTAKAS GREETED ARJUNA W/TH WAR CR/ES.

THE SAMSHAPTAKAS, AS PLANNED, HUNDREDS OP SAMSHAPTAKAS WERE KEPT ARJUNA BUSY THROUGHOUT KILLED THAT DAY. TH E D AY,

COMAAUNfTY OF SOLD/ERS SWORN TO CONQUER OR D/E a mar chrtra katha AS MIGHT FELL , BOTH SIDES RETIRED TO THEIR CAMPS. ALTHOUGH HE m s VICTORIOUS, ARJUNA WAS NOT HAPPY, f JAYAORATHA a mar chitra katha JAYADRATHA

I VE BEEN FOOLISH. \MY ENTIRE ARMY| YOU CAN PROTECT A MAN) WILL PROTECT YOU. AND AS FOR ARJUNAtYOU WILL SEE HIM ENTERING THE

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PZONA TOOK HIS POSITION AT THE HEAD OF HIS MASTER, BLESS ME. YOU ARMY. ARJUNA ARRIVED AT THE BATTLEFIELD TRAINED ME IN WARFARE WITH A HU6E ARMY AND SALUTED . THROUGH YOUR 0RACE, I WISH TO SLAY JAYADRATHA IN THE BATTLE.

17 amar chitra katha WE ARE ON OPPOSING GREAT WAS THE BATTLE THAT WAS SIDES, ARJUNA. YOU FOUOHT BETW EEN MASTER AND PUPIL. MUST VANQUISH ME FIRST BEFORE YOU CAN REACH, JAYADRATHA.

1 FINALLY— ARJUNA, DRONA WILL KEEP US HERE 1 I THE WHOLE DAY. WE I X V ^ MUST SLIP PAST fe^HIM SOMEHOW. A

AS KRISHNA SKILFULLY DROVE THE CHARIOT FORWARD, DRONA CALLED OUT— JAYADRATHA ARJUNA RELEASED A VOLLEY OF ARROWS TO CLEAR THE WAY. THEN HE CHARGED FORWARD LEAVING HIS AR/tffY FAR BEHIND. a mar chitra katha

BUT KRISHNA SMILINGLY 70 ARJUNA >5 AMAZEMENT, KRISHNA RECEIVED THE MACE ON HIS UNHURT - SHOULDER. JAYADRATHA

THE FALL OF SHRUTAYUDHA CAUSED PANIC /A/ DURYODHANA’Q CAMP. JAYADRATHA WAS ALARMED AT THE NEWS. DURYODHANA , JS THERE NO ONE WHO CAN HOLD ARJUNA a mar chitra katha

. . . ARJUNA SUPPORTED HIMSELF \ A SHOUT OF JOY RENT THE AIR. A6A/NST HIS FLAGSTAFF. JAYADRATHA BUT SOON ARJUNA RECOVERED AND QHRUTAYU FELL AND HIS SOLDIERS INVOKED /NTO EXISTENCE THE WEAPON BE6AN TO FLEE. ARJUNA9S CHARIOT NAMED AFTER INDRA, AND FROM IT S P ED ON. FLOWED THOUSANDS OF ARROINS. _ ^ FASTER, KRISHNA, WE HAVE A LON© WAV TO 60 BEFORE WE REACH 'JAYADRATHA..

BUT ANOTHER SECTION OF DURYODHANA >S ARMY BLOCKED HIS PATH. amar chrtra katha ARJUNA JUMPED DOWN FROM THE. CHARIOT..

a r j u n a m s T | K il n il a U DISMOUNTED! JAYADRATHA

25 a mar chitra katha IN HEN THE HORSES WERE REFRESHED, LOOK! KRISHNA f .AND OUR ARROWS THEY WERE HARNESSED A6A/N AND AND ARJUNA /> HAVE MADE NOT A KRISHNA AND ARJUNA SPEEDILY DROVE ARE HERE SCRATCH ON AGAIN! THEM!

.MEANWHILE JAYADRATHA WAS WATCH/N6 THE SKY /NTENTU— THEN ARJUNA, HAVING FAILED [eoOD? ju s to n e I IN HIS MISSION, MORE HOUR FOR WILL PUT AN END THE SUN 70 SET! TO HIS LIFE. JAYADRATHA

DURYODHANA9S M£N RUSH BP TO H/6 RESCUE. amar chitra katha JAYADRATHA AS THE EVEN/N6 SHADOWS • • * AND THE KAURAl/AS, MORE AND MORE LENGTHENED, THE PANDAVA5 BECAME JUBILANT, i— MORE AND MORE ANXIOUS • • . \BUT KEEP A CAREFUL ^ AK.f^\WATCH‘ HE MUST 8E .a n d I k e p t away prom ARJUNA IS STILL jL JAYADRATHA FAR AWAY FROM AT ALL JAYADRATHA! COSTS.

URQED BY DURYODHANA j AND THE OTHER WARRIORS ATTACKED ARJUNA. amar chitra katha BUT, KRISHNA, THERE ARE SIX WARRIORS BETWEEN H/M AND ME. I WON’T BE ABLE TO KILL JAYADRATHA BEFORE i m O JAYADRATHA R CONCHE E C N U O N N A O T ES H C N O C IR E H T W E L B CTORI SHNA AND UNA N JU R A D N A A N H IS R K , S U IO R O T IC V

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Jayadratha

Jayadratha is one of the most infamous characters found in the . He terrorised the helpless and cowered before the mighty. The encounter between him and Arjuna, the valiant Pandava, described in the Jayadratha-Vadha Parva (a sub-section of the of Mahabharata), makes absorbing reading.

Jayadratha was responsible for the death of Arjuna's son . Arjunu set out to avenge his son's death and the cowardly Jayadratha took shelter behind the massive army of Duryodhana.

The manner in which Arjuna surmounted the obstacles put in his way in his final encounter with Jayadratha is narrated in this Amar Chitra Katha.

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Related Titles Tales of Arjuna • Kama • Abhimanyu • Bheeshma Draupadi • Drona • The Pandavas in Hiding • Tales of Yudhisthira

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