| KURUKSHETRA DAY - 13 Duryodhan summoned King Bhagadatt, the monarch of Prajayogasth (modern day Assam, India). Bhagadatt had thousands of mammoth, gigantic elephants in his stable. He was considered the strongest warrior on this planet in elephant warfare. Bhagadatt attacked Arjun with his gigantic elephant. It was a fierce battle in which Bhagadatt matched Arjun astra for astra. On the other side of the Kurukshetra battlefield, the remaining four Pandavs & their allies were finding it impossible to break Dronacharya's Chakravyuh formation. As Arjun was busy fighting with the Trigartdesh princes and the Prajayogasth monarch on the other side of the battlefield, he could not be summoned to break the Chakravyuh formation. The Chakravyuh formation could only be broken by entering the formation and exiting the formation. Then king Yudhisthir instructed Abhimanyu, one of Arjun's sons to break the Chakravyuh formation, as apart from Arjun, Abhimanyu knew the secret of entering the Chakravyuh formation, but did not know how to exit it. Eventually he was trapped under the Chakravyu which led to his death.
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