Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c5.828

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DHRṬAVARMĀ. The brother of Suvarmā, the king of Trigarta, and Ketuvarmā. Arjuna led the sacrificial horse of Aśvamedha performed by Yudhiṣṭhira after the Bhārata war. Sūryavarmā the king of Trigarta, confronted Arjuna and was defeated. Ketuvarmā who came next was also killed. Dhṛtavarmā came next. He showered arrows on Arjuna and inflicted wound on his hand, and the famous bow, Gāṇḍīva fell from his hand. Arjuna grew angry and fought so fiercely that eighteen famous and mighty Trigartta warriors fell. At last Dhṛtavarmā fell at the feet of Arjuna and begged for pardon and accepted the supremacy of Yudhiṣṭhira. (M.B. Aśvamedha Parva, Chapter 74).