Babruvahana

Babruvahana (also known as Babhruvahana or Babhnu Vahana) is a character in Vyasa's epic, the Mahabharata. He is one of the sons of Arjuna, a Pandava. Chitrangada was his mother. She bore him during the period of his (Arjuna's) exile (refer Arjuna Vanavasa Parva of Mahabharata). Arjuna leaves Chitrangada because Arjuna's wife Ulupi from the Naga clan betrays him. Ulupi was envious of Arjuna's marriage to Chitrangada. Babruvahana was adopted as the son of his maternal grandfather and reigned at Manipura as his successor. He dwelt there in a palace of great splendour, surrounded with wealth and signs of power. Later he came to know Arjuna was his father, and when he came to see his father, Arjuna did not recognise him and said he was a wanderer. He had a wife, Kimveka from whom he had a son named Aarusha and a daughter named Aarushi.

Babruvahana Media

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  A painting depicting the battle between Babhruvahana and Arjuna, folio from Razmnama (16th-century Persian translation of the Mahabharata)

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  Actors playing Arjuna, Babhruvahana and Chitrangada in a play