Intro - The point of this post is not to highlight abhimanyu's power or give him a respect thread but instead the objective is for me to give a list of names for the characters that he killed.
Also i will start by listing the casualties for the 13th day after that it'll be back in time to day 1 until day eleven to see who he slayed.
Quote 1:
"Then with three other shafts of great sharpness, the mighty son of Arjuna, excited with rage, slew those three warriors, Sushena, Drighalochana, and Kundavedhin."
Quote 2:
"The younger brother of Salya, filled with wrath, advanced against Abhimanyu, scattering his shafts. Arjuna's son however endued with great lightness of hand, cut off his antagonist's head and charioteer, his triple bamboo-pole, his bed (on the car), his car-wheels, his yoke, and shafts and quiver, and car-bottom, by means of his arrows."
"So quick were his movements that none could obtain a sight of his person. Deprived of life, that foremost and chief of all ornaments of battle fell down on the earth, like a huge hill uprooted by a mighty tempest."
Quote 3:
"Then Abhimanyu, forcibly bending the bow and smiling the while, with one winged arrow cut off his antagonist's head. That head, severed from the trunk, fell down on the earth. Beholding his brother slain and overthrown, like a Karnikara tree shaken and thrown down by the wind from the mountain top, Karna, O monarch, was filled with pain."
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Quote 4:
"Cased though he was in an iron coat of mail, the son of Subhadra pierced him in the chest with a far-reaching shaft. Thereupon Vasatiya fell down on the earth, deprived of life. Beholding Vasatiya slain, many bulls among Kshatriyas became filled with wrath, and surrounded thy grandson, O king, from a desire of slaying him."
Quote 5:
"Phalguni's son, however, cutting off his bow, his right and left arms, and his head adorned with beautiful eyes and eye-brows quickly felled them on the earth. Beholding Rukmaratha, the honoured son of Salya, slain by the illustrious son of Subhadra."
Quote 6:
"many princely friends of Salya's son, O king, accomplished in smiting and incapable of being easily defeated in battle, and owning standards decked with gold, (came up for the fight). Those mighty car-warriors, stretching their bows full six cubits long, surrounded the son of Arjuna, all pouring their arrowy showers upon him."
"Those hundred princes were slain and felled by Subhadra's son like a tope of five-year old mango-trees just on the point of bearing fruit (laid low by a tempest). Beholding those youthful princes brought up in every luxury, and resembling angry snakes of virulent poison, all slain by the single-handed Abhimanyu, Duryodhana was filled with fear."
Who Abhimanyu killed before laxman;
"After Duryodhana was beaten back and a hundred princes slain, what course was pursued by the warriors of my army against the son of Subhadra?"
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Quote 7
"That shaft, sped by Abhimanyu's arms, cut off the beautiful head, decked with ear-rings, of Lakshmana, that was graced with a beautiful nose, beautiful eye-brows, and exceedingly good-looking curls. Beholding Lakshmana slain, thy troops uttered exclamations."
Quote 8:
"The latter's bow and shafts, and bracelets, and arms, and head decked with diadem, and umbrella, and standard, and charioteer, and steeds, were all cut off and felled by Abhimanyu. When Kratha's son, possessed of nobility of lineage, good behaviour, acquaintance with the scriptures, great strength, fame, and power of arms, was slain, the other heroic combatants almost all turned away."
Quote 9:
The mighty Abhimanyu, then, in the very sight of thy heroic sons, slew the brave Vrindaraka, that enhancer of the fame of the Kurus. While Abhimanyu was thus engaged in fearlessly slaying one after another the foremost warriors among his enemies
Quote 10
"Ruler of the Kosalas, then, thus deprived of his car, took up a sword and wished to sever from Abhimanyu's trunk his beautiful head, decked with ear-rings. Abhimanyu then pierced king Vrihadvala, the ruler of the Kosalas, in the chest, with a strong arrow. The latter then, with riven heart, fell down. Beholding this, ten thousand illustrious kings broke and fled. Those kings, armed with swords and bows, fled away"
"The son of Subhadra then slew six of Karna's brave counsellors, conversant with all modes of warfare, with their steeds and charioteers and cars."
"Slaying next the son of the ruler of the Magadhas, Abhimanyu, with six straight shafts, slew the youthful Aswaketu with his four steeds and charioteer."
"Then slaying, with a sharp razor-headed arrow, the Bhoja prince of Martikavata, bearing the device of an elephant (on his banner), the son of Arjuna uttered a loud shout and began to scatter his shafts on all sides."
"Abhimanyu then slew five warriors., named Satrunjaya, and Chandraketu, and Mahamegba, and Suvarchas, and Suryabhasa."
"Then that hero pressed Suvala's son, Kalikeya, down into the earth, and stew seven and seventy Gandhara followers of the latter. Next, he slew ten car-warriors of the Brahma-Vasatiya race, and then ten huge elephants."
Complete list (13th day).
1 - Suvarchas
2 - Suryabhasa
3 - Satrunjaya
4 - Chandraketu
5 - Mahamegba
6 - Kalikeya
7 - Martikavata's prince (descendant of same Citrarath who parshuram's mother renuka lusted after)
8 - Aswaketu
9 - Prince of magada.
10 - Vrihadvalh (king of Ram's land Koshal)
11 - karna's foster brother (adhirath putra)
12 - Vrindaraka
13 - son of Kratha
14 - Laxman
15 - Vasatiya
16 - Rukmarath
17 - Drighalochan
18 - Shalya's brother
19 - Kundavedhin
20 - Sushena
Bonus would be the 6 counselor's of hijda Karna & 100 kshatriya rajkumars that were friend's of Rukmaratha.
Who Kratha was?
[Quote]
"Then Bhima, without losing a moment, despatched Kratha to the abode of Yama, with a long arrow of keen point. Deprived of life, that prince fell down on the Earth."
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Logic - Kratha was Duryodhana's brother, his son would be a nephew to Duryodhana & a grandson of Dhritrashtra.
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Cross reference;
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"Abhimanyu, he, having slain many thousands of men and steeds and elephants, and eight thousand cars, and once more nine hundred elephants, two thousand princes, and a large number of heroic warriors unknown to fame, and despatching in that battle king Vrihadvala also to heaven, at last, through ill luck, met with his own death. Thus hath occurred this event that so enhances our grief! That tiger among men hath even thus ascended to heaven!"
Logic - this indicates that he killed over 11 thousand warriors that day not a full aukshouni, half a aukshouni or 3/4ths of one. But its confirmed that at minimum 2 thousand of his victims were royal princes.
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Now i will discuss who he slew on days 2 to 11.
I already read his performance on day 1, though he fought well he didn't slay a important warrior that day.
2nd day: he did not kill any great names. In this chapter link its stated many kings arrived with duryodhana to fight abhimanyu but all of them get killed by arjuna instead of abhimanyu (according to sanjaya) - https://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/m06/m06055.htm If you are to be realistic then maybe it can be assumed that sanjaya made a mistake or did not see all that happened so possibly one of those kings indeed got killed by abhimanyu instead of arjuna.
Day 3 - random nameless warriors belonging to sakuni's legion were murdered by abhimanyu.
Quote;
"Satyaki, abandoning that car of his, speedily mounted on Abhimanyu's car, O chastiser of foes. And those two, mounted on the same car, then began to speedily slaughter the army of Suvala's son with straight arrows of sharp points."
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On day 4's early half it was mentioned that abhimanyu afflicted the kourav army but not whether he killed someone or not.
Quote;
"And seeing thy grandson, O king, thus afflicting thy host, thy warriors, O monarch, surrounded him on all sides. Then that smiter of foes, the son of Subhadra, depending upon his prowess and might, advanced with undepressed heart against the Dhartarashtra host. And while battling with the foe in that conflict, his mighty bow endued with the effulgence of the sun, was seen by all to be incessantly stretched for striking. And piercing the son of Drona with one shaft, and Salya with five, he overthrew the standard of Samyamani's son with eight shafts. And with another sharp-edged arrow he cut off the mighty dart of golden staff, resembling a snake, that was hurled at him by Somadatta's son. And the heir of Arjuna, baffling in the very sight of Salya, his hundreds of terrible shafts, slew his four steeds. Thereupon Bhurisravas, and Salya, and Drona's son and Samyamani, and Sala struck with the fear at the strength of arms displayed by Krishna's son could not stay before him."
Logic - here i removed the text which said said 'p. 158' also Sanjaya refers to abhimanyu as a grandson of dhritrashtra instead of pandu.
4th day ending.
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"The ruler of the Magadhas, in that battle, urged his elephant resembling Airavata himself, towards the car of Subhadra's son. Beholding that mighty elephant advancing towards him, that slayer of hostile heroes, the brave son of Subhadra, slew it with a single shaft. And when the ruler of the Magadhas was thus deprived of his elephant, that conqueror of hostile cities, the son of Krishna, then struck off that king's head with a broad-headed shaft with silver wings."
Note: son of krishna here meant son of arjuna because he had another name like Krishna.
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Krishna said: "Seven days have elapsed since the mighty Jayatsena, the ruler of the Magadhas, was slain in battle by Abhimanyu."
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Comment - it could mean day 10 or even day 9.
Cross-reference:
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The mighty Jayatsena the son of Jarasandha, the prince of the Magadhas, O king, hath been slain in battle by the high-souled son of Subhadra."
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Overall its unclear whether Jayatsena was a prince or king, its also not made clear whether his death was on day four, nine or ten.
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Day 5;
"Satyaki and Chekitana, and the mighty son of Subhadra, proceeded against Salya and the Kaikeyas."
Logic - shalya dies cause of yudisther & the only 2 relevant kekaya warriors (vinda/anuvinda) were murdered by satyaki later. So clearly their killer isn't abhimanyu. All he does here is fight and injure not murder or slay.
Passage:
"Then the princes of thy army, all heroic and mighty car-warriors, excited with wrath and united together in that conflict, pierced him with sharp arrows. And Abhimanyu, acquainted with the mightiest weapons, smote them all with keen shafts. Beholding that feat of his, thy sons then surrounded the son of Arjuna, who was consuming thy army in that conflict like a swelling fire of blazing flames consuming a heap of dry grass in summer."
Explanation: Here a case can be made for important royalty being slaughtered by him except their names had not been given by Sanjaya, Souti, Vyaas, Vaisampayan etc. But the term consuming alludes to carnage.
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Day 6;
"Yudhishthira the just, disposing all his own divisions properly despatched twelve mighty car-warriors including Abhimanyu and others to follow Bhimasena behind."
Day 7 - apart from his location in the army mode nothing much is mentioned of abhimanyu's actions that day, so him killing a relevant character or monarch is unlikely.
8th day - here abhimanyu defeated king Amvastha but himself did a group attack on Bhagadatta which led to him losing to bhagadatta, not a single character had been slain by abhimanyu today.
Quote;
"Abhimanyu also, with his shafts, deprived that renowned and foremost of car-warriors, viz., king Amvashta, of his car. Deprived of his car and about to be slain by the celebrated son of Subhadra, that king quickly jumped down from his car."
Logic - maybe abhimanyu killed his driver but its confirmed that this king did not die.
9th day:
"Death-dealing shafts, O king, shot by him in that battle, despatched many heroic Kshatriyas to the regions of the king of the departed spirits. Indeed, excited with wrath Subhadra's son in that battle shot fierce and blazing arrows in profusion that resembled snakes of virulent poison or rods of death himself. And Phalguni's son speedily split into fragments car-warriors with their cars, steeds with their riders, and elephant-warriors along with the huge animals they rode."
"And the rulers of the earth, filled with joy, applauded those mighty feats in battle and praised him also that achieved them. And the son of Subhadra, O Bharata, tossed those divisions (of the Kaurava army) like the tempest tossing a heap of cotton on all sides in the welkin. Routed by him, O Bharata, the troops failed to find a protector, like elephants sunk in a slough. Then, O best of men, having routed all troops, Abhimanyu stood, O king, like a blazing fire without a curl of smoke."
Size of a division: "25,000 foot-soldiers proceeded towards Partha and surrounded him. Then that mighty car-warrior amongst the Pancalas with Bhimasena at his head, speedily slew that brave division and stood triumphant." https://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/m09/m09003.htm
The driver of Chitrasena died:
"Son of Subhadra, having slain his antagonist's steeds and charioteer with nine arrows, uttered a loud shout. Thereupon that mighty car-warrior, (viz., Chitrasena), quickly jumping down from that car whose steed had been slain, mounted, O king, without delay, the car of Durmukha."
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Day 10.
Suyodhana's quote;
"Satyaki, and Chekitana, and the twin sons of Madri, and the valiant Abhimanyu,--these also are routing my troops."
11th day.
He kills the charioteer of paurava king (ancestor to porus):
"Mounting next upon his car, he seized Paurava by the hair, and slaying meanwhile with a kick, the latter's driver, he felled his standard with a stroke of his sword. And as regards Paurava himself, Abhimanyu raised him up, like the Garuda raising a snake from the bottom of the sea agitating the waters."
That ends it all now.
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List:
1 - Jayatsena
2 - driver of king Amvastha
3 - charioteer of prince Chitrasena
4 - nameless warriors
5 - multiple divisions (each consisted of 25 thousand men)
6 - sarathi of king paurava.
The reason i am not including day 12 is cause its made obviously clear he did not kill anyone during that day in particular.
Puzzle:
- Name of Kundavedhin (murdered by Abhimanyu) has only one difference with the brother of Duryodhan whose name is Kundabhedin. That is the v & b so it is possible he was the same brother of Duryodhan that Bheem pledged to kill. Possibly the person who abhimanyu killed was actually a son of kundavedhin instead so a upa kourava who shared the name of his father/sire.
Overall abhimanyu is highly underestimated by bhishma tards & karna bhakts. But whats more important is that he has a higher list of kills/casualties than both karna/bhishma combined. Naming even four people killed by either bhishma or karna is difficult but naming abhimanyus casualties is not hard at all.
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