When Arjuna defeated Karna in battle, it was in no small part because Karna had already expended his secret weapon.

Shiva challenged Arjuna for a fight and although he defeated Arjuna, Shiva was very pleased with bravery and prowess of the prince.

Arjuna single handedly defeated this great host of Kaurava warriors with only the prince of Virata ( who was only a mere boy ) for a charioteer.

The Padma Purana mentions that when Kartavirya Arjuna tried to capture her, Kamadhenu, by her own power, defeated him and his army and flew off to heaven ; the enraged king then killed Jamadagni.

King Drupada of Panchala had been defeated by the Pandava prince Arjuna on behalf of Drona, who subsequently took half his kingdom to humiliate him.

Many believe that he was the greatest warrior of Mahabharata since he was only able to be defeated by Arjuna along with a combination of 3 curses, Indra's efforts and Kunti's request.

Karna then defeated Nakula and Sahedeva but didn't kill them, since he had promised his mother to spare the lives of all the Pandava brothers except for Arjuna.

Uttar Kumara was the son of King Virāta, who with Arjuna ’ s help, had defeated the Kaurava army that had invaded the Virāta kingdom.

The Mahabharata relates they were defeated by Arjuna.

The Rais and Limbus are supposed to be fierce tribal warriors of Nepal and are considered to be most sturdy and tough they also claim to have a relationship with the mythological warrior Kirant who fought and defeated legendary warrior Arjuna in Mahabharata.

Later when Pandavas defeated the Kauravas in Kurukshetra War, and king Yudhisthira, ascended the throne of Hastinapura once again, his brother Arjuna stayed at Indraprastha, with Krishna, his friend and teacher, and looked after the matters of boarders of the kingdom.

Arjuna fought a powerful battle with Jayadratha and finally defeated him.

In Bhagavad Gita when Arjuna hesitates to kill his kith and kin the lord reprimands him saying thus " Do you believe that you are the doer of the action.

In the second chapter of the Bhagavad Gita Krishna refutes the pacifist ideas of Arjuna and uses various arguments to convince him that he must fight and kill in the impending battle.

His charioteer, Krishna ( an avatar of god ), explains to Arjuna the concept of dharma ( duty ) among other things and makes him see that it is his duty to fight.

The story tells that Arjuna, in order to defeat the giant Niwatakawaca, engaged in meditation and asceticism, whereupon Indra sent apsaras to seduce him.

As the conflict developed among the Jamadagni and the King, Kartavirya Arjuna lost his cool and chopped off the head of Jamadagni. When Parashurama ( Jamadagni's son and one of the DaśāvatārasVishnu ) returned to the hermitage, he was informed of the context by his mother. In revenge, Parashurama killed the entire clan of Kartavirya Arjuna and the King with the axe given to him by Shiva, thus conquering the entire earth, which he gave to Brahamanas.

The king readily agreed when he knew about Arjuna ’ s real identity, but sought a promise from Arjuna that their son would remain in Manipura and take over the reins of the kingdom succeeding him.

Agni requested Krishna and Arjuna to help him realize his goal.

Arjuna hence kills Karna using the Anjalika weapon to decapitate him.

Krishna states that no one in the world is dearer to him that Arjuna and that there is nothing in the world that he wouldn ’ t give his friend.

In the epic, when Arjuna takes a vow to either kill Jayadratha before sunset or else immolate himself, Krishna remarks to his charioteer, Daruka, that neither his wives nor friends nor kinsmen nor relatives nor any other is dearer to him than Arjuna.

4 ) Lord Krishna rescued Arjuna from Karna's shakti weapon by not exposing him to Karna, until Karna used it against Ghatotkacha.

Bhima and Arjuna caught up with Jayadratha and Arjuna asked him how an unmanly fellow like himself had the guts to take a woman away by force.

Arjuna reminded him of Dharmaraj ( Yudhisthira )’ s words, so they brought Jayadratha to their hermitage. After bringing the chained Jayadratha back to the hermitage where he was to declare to be slave of Pandavas and was hence, shaved on his head at five places and then freed.

Krishna complies and gives Arjuna the spiritual vision which enables him to see Krishna in His true form, a magnificent and awe-inspiring manifestation, containing everything in the universe ; a description of this theophany forms the main part of Chapter XI.

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He truly believes that Karna is superior to Arjuna, and will inevitably destroy him and his four brothers.

Bhisma is lying on a bed of arrows with Arjuna standing above him with bow drawn and pointed.

On the request of Yudhisthir, Arjuna saved Duryodhana and set him free.

Kripacharya refused Karna his duel, asking first for his clan and kingdom ; for according to the rules of duelling, only a prince could challenge Arjuna to a duel since he was a prince of the Kuru house.

He immediately offered Karna the throne of the kingdom of Anga, making him a king and hence eligible to fight a duel with Arjuna.

The much-awaited duel between Karna and Arjuna resumed.

During his duel with Arjuna, when, by a blow from one of Karna's arrows Arjuna is rendered unconscious, the cobra king Ashwasen creeps out of hiding from Karna's chariot and asks Karna if he may use his poison against Arjuna, because Arjuna had burnt his forest to the ground.

Simhavishnu is known to have been the patron of the Sanskrit poet Bharavi, who wrote of the duel between Siva and Arjuna known as Kirata Arjuneeya, after which Lord Shiva blessed Arjuna with the divine ' Pasupata ' missile.

In the final and deadly duel brave Sudakshina had seriously wounded Arjuna and sent him into a terrible swoon, but finally was overcome and fell a magnificent martyr to Kuru cause.

Arjuna tried to engage Bhishma in a duel, but the Kaurava soldiers placed around Bhishma to protect him attacked Arjuna to try to prevent him from directly engaging Bhishma.

Arjuna and Bhishma again engaged in a fierce duel, however Arjuna's heart was not in the battle as he did not like the idea of attacking his great-uncle.

Arjuna, considered the finest archer and a peerless warrior by many notable figures in the Mahabharata such as Bhishma, Drona, Krishna, Vidura, Sage Naradha and Dhiritharashtra, played a key role in ensuring the defeat of the Kauravas in the Kurukshetra War.

Along with other Pandava brothers, Arjuna was trained in religion, science, administration and military arts by the Kuru preceptors, Kripa and Drona.

In a famous incident under Drona ’ s tutelage, Drona deemed none of his students other than Arjuna had the steadfast focus to shoot a bird on a tree and was proved right by Arjuna.

At the martial exhibition where the Kaurava and Pandava princes demonstrate their skills before their elders, their guru Drona and the people of the kingdom, the great effulgent warrior Karna appears and challenges Arjuna, who is considered by Drona to be the best of the warrior princes.

Bhishma was well versed with tactical formations of the military in those days and only Drona, Krishna, Karna, & Arjuna could be compared to the vast knowledge that Bhishma possessed.

* Padma Vyuha or the Chakra Vyuha: a winding, ever-rotating circular formation ; considered impenetrable during the Mahabharata age by all warriors except Arjuna, Bhisma, Karna, Drona, Krishna, Pradyumna, Aniruddha and Abhimanyu.

Of all the Kaurava and Pandava brothers training under Drona, Arjuna emerged as the most dedicated, hard-working and most naturally talented of them all, exceeding even Drona's own son Ashwathama.

Arjuna, however, swiftly fired arrows to slay the illusionary animal, and Drona congratulated Arjuna for passing this test.

As a reward, Drona gave Arjuna mantras to invoke the super-powerful divine weapon of Brahma known as Brahmastra, but told Arjuna not to use this irresistible weapon against any ordinary warrior.

But when Arjuna stepped forth, he told Drona that he saw only the eye of the bird and nothing else.

Drona asked him to shoot, and Arjuna did strike the bird down in the eye.

Drona gave Arjuna special knowledge of the devastras that no other prince possessed.

The strongest criticism of Drona springs from his behavior towards Ekalavya and his strong bias in favor of Arjuna.

Thus, Drona inadvertently laid the foundation for Karna's great rivalry with Arjuna.

The knowledge belongs to all and one cannot cheat students to achieve something for self or for a promise ( Drona had promised Arjuna that Arjuna is going to be the best Archer in the World .).

They failed to defeat the Panchala army, whereupon Drona sent Arjuna and his brothers for the task.