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From: ksp@ulysses.UUCP (Krishna Prasad)
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Subject: Re: "Ardh Satya": an opinion
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Date: Mon, 10-Feb-86 08:48:49 EST
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> 
> One of the references in the film escaped me: could someone please tell
> me what the significance of the Chakra Vyuha is? That is not what
> Abhimanyu was trapped in, in the Kurukshetra battle, is it -- I thought
> that was the Padma Vyuha.
> 
> 				Sri Rajeev
> 				ihnp4!attunix!rajeev

As I remember it, Chakra Vyuha was the battle formation that
Abhimanyu was trapped in the Kurukshetra.  Abhimanyu was the son
of Arjuna and Krishna's sister (whose name escapes me at this moment).
Once when she was pregnant with Abhimanyu, Krishna happened to
be visiting and talked about this wonderful called Chakravyuha, 
and how to break into it.  But before he could describe how to 
break out, they were interrupted.  Abhimanyu, in the womb heard 
and remembered many years later.  

As a metaphor, I suppose it signifies the trap that Ananth of
"Arda Sathya" is drawn into by duty and out of which he cannot 
break out. 

Krishna Prasad
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