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I know Bhima made that vow that's why he killed 100 Kauravas, does this mean none of the brothers or warriors in Pandava's side were able to kill even 1 Kauravas? I think they left them for Bhima to fulfill his vow
Sure they did, and they also left Karna and Shakuni for Arjun and Sahadev
Skills people acquire by hard work makes them superior, Arjun worked hard to get weapons and train himself, Arjun's absence from Kurukshetra had landed them on back foot, Duryodhana would have won on that day itself, if not for Arjun's son
But only on that day, since it was the day that Jayadrath's boon was effective. Remember, at other times, others had no problems defeating Jayadrath
Shiva gave Arjun the boon, If you know this then don't you know how Arjun acquired it? He defeated and satisfied Lord Shiva 🙃
Oh, no! Arjun lost to Kirat, but when he noticed that the flowers he had offered the lingam appeared on Kirat, he realized who he was. Also, Mahadev gave him the boon b'cos of the tapasya Arjun did preceding that, not b'cos of that performance
Didn't Arjun vow to kill Jayadratha before sunset or he will kill himself? On 14th day, there was a 3 layered formation to stop Arjun from reaching Jayadratha, There was 48 miles long Vyuh with 20 Mile diameter chakravyuh of Kaurava warriors for Arjun, which was led by Dronacharya, Everyone in Kaurava army was protecting Jayadratha to make sure Arjun kills himself, I don't understand why would they focus on an inconsequential part of Pandavas. Jayadratha wasn't in this Chakravyuh, he was being protected by Karna and Aawatthama along with more than 100k knights, 60k chariots, 14k elephant warriors, 20k foot soldiers, Arjun broke all layers efficiently to reach Jayadratha
Chakravyuha wasn't the vyuha used on day 14: something else was. At any rate, Arjun was breaking through it, but he was unable to defeat Drona, so Krishna suggested just bypassing him. Satyaki defeated Drona and continued, while Bhima broke 100 of Drona's chariots. W/o taking anything away from Arjun, he was assisted by the assaults of Satyaki and Bhima, particularly Bhima. Karna was actually in one of the outer layers of the vyuha, and Arjun managed to bypass him, while Bhima gave Karna a good battering. So much so that Duryodhan had to send several of his brothers to their death to protect him.
The aim was to kill Jayadratha before Sunset, Arjun and Drona were in a never ending battle which would have led to sunset and Arjun killing himself, Therefore Krushna advised him to not waste time here and look for Jayadratha. Both Drona and Arjun killed thousands of men in chariot, elephants etc, Arjun would have been killed by Drona, if he didn't take down his support army on chariots, elephants, He was able to move ahead by destroying the layers of Vyuh only, But, Arjun couldn't kill Drona as long as he had a weapon in his hands.
Yet Drona lost to both Satyaki and Bhima, and when Dury reproached him, he told Dury that w/ Arjun gone, he once again had a good opportunity to capture Yudhisthir. Which is why Arjun left Yudhisthir in Satyaki's care, Satyaki left Yudhisthir in Bhima's care and Bhima left Yudhisthir in Dhrishtadyumna's care. Once Bhima left, Drona unleased a carnage amongst the Pandava army and killed several major Pandava warriors, including Dhrishtaketu, Sahadev of Magadha, Vrihaddhaksha (?) of Kekaya and so on.
In fact, Drona was so rattled he started killing normal soldiers with celestial weapons, which as against rule of war and they decided to kill Drona on Day 15
Arjun alone killed 7 Akshauhini force of Kauravas on 14th day
The texts are somewhat unclear on that: it can be easily read that by the 14th day, Arjun had destroyed 7 of the 11 akshauhinis. As opposed to that day alone
One more thing, Arjun had left Yudhishtira with Satyaki that day saying Satyaki has to protect Yudhishtira so he can fight battle without having to worry about protecting their King, There was a time when Dronacharya had almost captured Yudhishtira but Sahdev took him away, that's what happens in Arjun's absence.
No, Yudhisthir fought Drona pretty competently, and at one point, Drona unleashed a Brahmastra at him, and Yudhisthir responded w/ one of his own. Drona then went on to battle the other warriors and kill them
Arjun had killed many key players on day 14, Arjun had defeated Duryodhana breaking his chariot and weapons, but Arjun didn't kill him, he could have easily done it but Bheema had vowed to kill Duryodhana. Similarly, Bheema did not kill Karn because it was Arjun's vow to kill him
One could imagine, how many warriors would be there to protect their King because Duryodhana's death means losing the war, Arjun had killed and evaded all the warriors who were defending Duryodhana.
Arjun was battling Karna, Salya, Vrihasena alone at one point Duryodhana had made sure none of the Pandavas reach Arjuna but Bheema and Satyaki get there, In the end defeating everyone in their purpose Arjun killed Jayadratha.
Karna's entire effort was taken up by Bhima, and he also was emotionally drained by seeing several of Dury's brothers sent to protect him get killed by Bhima. After Jayadrath's death, Karna fought and lost a battle w/ Satyaki, who now had Daruka (Krishna's charioteer) working for him.
Arjun severed Bhurishrava's arm from behind when he was about to kill Satyaki who was unconscious, and he then fought along w/ Jayadrath Ashwatthama, Kripa, Kritavarma, Shalya, Vrishasena and others. It was in the midst of that that Krishna faked the sunset, otherwise there was no way Arjun could have killed Jayadrath on time
14th day of war shows how important Arjun was In the war of Kurukshetra, They couldn't defeat him so they did everything in their power to hide a man to make sure Arjun kills himself. Drona realizes this and he was focused on capturing Yudhishtira in Arjun's absence.
If one side in the war thinks that one person's absence can make the difference in result of the battle, tells to story of importance of that person. One side put all of their to make sure they hide one warrior so Arjun kills himself, You see all of the attacked him together, it wasn't to kill him, they didn't think killing him in battlefield was a possibility, that's how important was Arjun in war of Kurukshetra
All this is true w/o proving that Arjun was more indispensable to the cause than Bhima. The serials make it look that way, but like I noted above, one can't ignore having avatars of both Vishnu and Shiva on that chariot.
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