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From: gupta@unc.UUCP (Gopal Gupta)
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Subject: Re: "Ardh Satya": an opinion
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Date: Tue, 11-Feb-86 19:34:36 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb 11 19:34:36 1986
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> In article <1186@ulysses.UUCP> ksp@ulysses.UUCP (Krishna Prasad) writes:
> >
> >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, 
> 
> It wasn't Krishna from whom Abhimanyu learnt about the Chakravyuha,
> it was his father Arjuna.
> 
> >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.  
> 
> Vikram.

The name of Krishna's sister and Arjuna's wife was Subhadra.
And they were not interrupted before Arjuna could narrate how
to break out of a chakravyuha. Instead Subhadra fell asleep
before Arjuna could complete his narration.