Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c9.1510

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ŚATĀNĪKA II. Son of Nakula. The Mahābhārata contains the following information about this Śatānīka.
(i) To Nakula was born of Draupadī a son called Śatānīka. (Ādi Parva, Chapter 63, Verse 123).
(ii) This Śatānīka was born from an aspect of Viśvadeva. (Ādi Parva, Chapter 67, Verse 127).
(iii) Once upon a time there was in the Kaurava dynasty a Rājarṣi called Śatānīka and it was to perpetuate that name that Nakula named his son ‘Śatānīka’. (Ādi Parva, Chapter 220, Verse 84).
(iv) This Śatānīka defeated in the great war Jayatsena, Duṣkarṇa and Citrasena. (Bhīṣma Parva, Chapter 79, Verse 42; Chapter 79, Verse 46 and Droṇa Parva, Chapter 168, Verse 12).
(v) Śatānīka fought with Vṛṣasena, Śrutakarmā, the son of Dhṛtarāṣṭra and Aśvatthāmā. (Droṇa Parva, Chapter 167, Verse 7; Karṇa Parva, Chapter 25, Verse 13 and Chapter 85, Verse 14).
(vi) He killed Bhūṭakarman and the prince of Kaliṅga in the great war. (Droṇa Parva, Chapter 25, Verse 23; Karṇa Parva, Chapter 85, Verse 21).
(vii) He died in the great war hit by the arrow of Aśvatthāmā. (Sauptika Parva, Chapter 8, Verse 57). (viii) He is referred to by the following names also in the Mahābhārata, viz. Nakulaputra, Nakuladāyāda, Nākuli.