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Originally posted by: BrhannadaArmour

Lakṣmaṇamātṛ

No clue, please explain this term.

Laxmana's mother, Duryodhan's wife.

Lakshmi

Lakshmana's sister

How did I not know he was Duryodhan's son

*Questioning me knowledge* 😭

Originally posted by: DelusionsOfNeha

Lakshmi

Lakshmana's sister

How did I not know he was Duryodhan's son

*Questioning me knowledge* 😭

His sister was Lakshmanaa right? They were twins Lakshmana and Lakshmanaa. Is Lakshmi the name of Lakshmanaa or is there another Sister called Lakshmi cause as far as I know Dury only had 2 children 🤔

Originally posted by: Rani_Sahiba

His sister was Lakshmanaa right? They were twins Lakshmana and Lakshmanaa. Is Lakshmi the name of Lakshmanaa or is there another Sister called Lakshmi cause as far as I know Dury only had 2 children 🤔

Mansi (Wife)

Lakshmanā(Sister)

Kaalketu (Son)

Lakshmi (Sister) - married to Vrishketu

3 unnamed brothers

3 unnamed sisters

Laxman Kumara, Lakshmana, Kaalketu, Lakshmi were the children of Duryodhana and Bhanumati. Little is revealed about them in the Mahabharata other than Laxman's death in the Kurukshetra War and Laxmanaa's marriage to Krishna's son Samba.

BA please confirm

In Mahābhārata, only two children of Duryodhana are mentioned: his son Lakṣmaṇa and an unnamed daughter abducted by Sāmba in Harivaṃśa chapter 90.

When Duryodhana is dying, he thinks of the warriors on his side who have died before him, including "Duḥśāsana's distinguished son (Dauḥśāsani) and Lakṣmaṇa, both my sons." Three verses later, Duryodhana imagines his father and mother surrounded by daughters-in-law and granddaughters-in-law, so the authors of Mahābhārata were aware that Duryodhana should have had numerous nephews fighting and dying in the war, and maybe more than one son. (Edited to add: Udyogaparvan 56.19 refers to Duryodhana's own sons in the plural, i.e. three or more, apart from Duḥśāsana's sons.) However, Lakṣmaṇa is the only one whose battles are narrated, until Abhimanyu kills him. Dauḥśāsani, who kills Abhimanyu, is mentioned as having been killed by one of the Draupadeyas, but this battle is not narrated in the text. Another nephew of Duryodhana, Citrasena's son (Caitraseni) appears in one battle.

Duryodhana and Gāndhārī refer to his chief wife as Lakṣmaṇamātṛ only. We don't know her name, or whether she is supposed to be the same girl that he abducted from Kaliṅga with Karṇa's help. In the play Ūrubhaṅga, attributed to Bhāsa, the dying Duryodhana consoles his little son Durjaya and his two wives, Mālavī and Pauravī, known only by their family names. Pauravī says that she has decided to follow her husband in death. The name Bhānumatī for Duryodhana's wife comes from the play Veṇīsaṃhāra by Bhaṭṭa-Nārāyaṇa. I suspect that he chose the name as if she would be the sister of Bhānumat, a Kaliṅga prince killed by Bhīma in Mahābhārata.

Lakṣmaṇa's accidental marriage to Ghaṭotkaca while trying to marry Bala-Rāma's daughter Śaśirekhā/Vatsalā who loves Abhimanyu is a folk tradition, like the idea that Duryodhana almost married Subhadrā but she loved Arjuna a generation before. None of this is in Mahābhārata, where Abhimanyu's wife is Uttarā.

Sāmba's capture while abducting Duryodhana's daughter is a pretext for Saṃkarṣaṇa to drag Hāstinapura towards Gaṅgā. Since this story was created to explain why the city is lopsided, its date is later than the geological events that made Hāstinapura flood-prone, resulting in Janamejaya's descendant Nirvakra moving his capital to Kauśāmbī. If we accept the tradition that the earliest version of Mahābhārata appeared in Janamejaya's time, and we observe that the genealogies in Harivaṃśa and a couple of Purāṇas either end or mark "the present time" a few generations later with his descendants Ajapārśva and Adhisoma-Kṛṣṇa (before Nirvakra), it's obvious that Duryodhana's daughter's story is not that old.

The genealogies in Harivaṃśa tell us that Sāmba's lady was Vasuṃdharā, the daughter of Akrūra, and Sāmba's son Supārśva was born to Kāśyā (i.e. the daughter of Kāśya = Akrūra whose mother was Gāṃdinī of Kāśi).

Several centuries later, when the dynasties that claimed descent from Jarāsaṃdha and Janamejaya were extinct, there was a tradition that Sāmba was romancing Naraka's daughter Yajñavatī just before Kṛṣṇa killed Naraka, and they got married and eventually reincarnated as Rājavāhana and Avantisundarī, the lead couple in Daṇḍin's romance Avantisundarī (abridged in Daśakumāracarita).

In Bhāgavata-purāṇa, which was written even later, Duryodhana's daughter abducted by Sāmba is named Lakṣmaṇā, and she doesn't want to marry him. As far as I'm aware, the story of Sāmba and Duryodhana's daughter wasn't developed any further until mythological TV series got hold of it.

I have no idea who invented these other family members for Lakṣmaṇa.

I have no idea who invented these other family members for Lakṣmaṇa.

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The epics and their epic interpolations. Probably from other folklore traditions or some dramas. Wiki has sources listed.

1. Sharma, Arvind (2007). Essays on the Mahābhārata. Motilal Banarsidass Publishe. ISBN 978-81-208-2738-7.
2. ^ Anonymous. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa (Complete). Library of Alexandria. ISBN 978-1-4655-2637-3.
3. ^ Vanamali (2012). The Complete Life of Krishna: Based on the Earliest Oral Traditions and the Sacred Scriptures. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 9781594776908. Retrieved 22 May 2012.
4. ^ "Indian Myth and Legend: Chapter XVIII. The Battle of Eighteen Days". Sacred-texts.com.

1. "Indian Myth and Legend: Chapter XVIII. The Battle of Eighteen Days". Sacred-texts.com.
2. ^ "Krishna Book Chapter 68: The Marriage of Samba". Krsnabook.com.

I will consider it Laxmanaa and say Sambh since she was married to him.

Sambh

Sāraṇa - Sāmba's uncle who presented Sāmba as the pregnant wife of Sāmba's father-in-law Babhru = Akrūra.