[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [A Classical Dictionary of Hindu Mythology and Religion, Geography, History, and Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.dowson-1879) › c5.132.2 # A Classical Dictionary of Hindu Mythology and Religion, Geography, History, and Literature c5.132.2 A Classical Dictionary of Hindu Mythology and Religion, Geography, History, and Literature c5.132.2 - **Language:** English ### [c5.132.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.dowson-1879.c5.132.2) but Arjuna, having found out the true character of his adversary, worshipped him, and Siva gave him the pāsupata, one of his most powerful weapons. Indra, Varuna, Yama, and Kuvera came to him, and also presented him with their own peculiar weapons. Indra, his father, carried him in his car to his heaven and to his capital Amarāvatī, where Arjuna spent some years in the practice of arms. Indra sent him against the Daityas of the sea, whom he vanquished, and then returned victorious to Indra, who “presented him with a chain of gold and a diadem, and with a war-shell which sounded like thunder.” In the thirteenth year of exile he entered the service of Rāja Virāta, disguised as a eunuch, and acted as music and dancing master, but in the end he took a leading part in defeating the king's enemies, the king of Trigarta and the Kaurava princes, many of whose leading warriors he vanquished in single combat. Preparations for the great struggle with the Kauravas now began. Arjuna obtained the personal assistance of Krishna, who acted as his charioteer, and, before the great battle began, related to him the Bhagavad-gītā. On the tenth day of the battle he mortally wounded Bhīshma; on the twelfth he defeated Susarman and his four brothers; on the fourteenth he killed Jayadratha; on the seventeenth, he was so stung by some reproaches of his brother, Yudhi-shthira, that he would have killed him had not Krishna interposed. - [Previous: c5.132.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.dowson-1879.c5.132.1) - [Next: c5.132.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.dowson-1879.c5.132.3) - [Up: c5.132](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.dowson-1879.c5.132) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.dowson-1879.c5.132.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.dowson-1879.c5.132.2) · Pramāṇa