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Duhshasana (: ???????, Du??āsana), also spelled as Dushasana and Dushyasana, was a
prince, the second son of the blind king
and the younger brother of
When Dhritarashtra's queen Gandhari's pregnancy continued for an unusually long time, she beat her womb in frustration and in envy of , the queen of , who had given birth to three of the five . Due to her actions, a hardened mass of grey-colored flesh emerges from her womb. Gandhari is devastated, and calls upon , the great sage who had blessed her with one hundred sons, to redeem his words. Vyasa divides the flesh ball into a hundred equal pieces, and puts them into pots of ghee, which are then sealed and buried in the earth for one year. At the end of the year, the first pot is opened, and Duryodhana emerges. The next one to emerge is Dushasana.[]
Dushasana is devoted to his older brother Duryodhana. He is also closely involved in the various schemes and plots to kill the .
Draupadi is presented to a parcheesi game
loses his kingdom, his brothers and his wife , in a game of dice with , Dushasana dragged
by the hair into the assembly, at the behest of his brother , and tried to disrobe her. Draupadi prayed to
and he made her
to be of infinite length, so that Dushasana could not take it off. However, the princess was humiliated by being dragged into court by her hair. Because of this humiliation, Draupadi vowed that she would not tie her hair until she had washed it with the blood from Dushasana's chest.
Bhim fulfilling his promise regarding Dushsasana in the Mahabharata field
kills Dushasana, tears open his chest, and drinks his blood, as pledged. After dancing around Dushasana's corpose, he brings Dushasana's blood to Draupadi, thus helping Draupadi redeem her vow while redeeming his own. Dushasana's death greatly agitated Karna and Duryodhana, and demoralized the Kaurava army watching Bhima in his ecstasy of wrath.
Dursasana (Dushasana in the ) in the Balinese
shadow theatre
The name is often derived from two elements, the : duh, meaning "hard, tough," and shasana, meaning "ruler, punisher."
The Mahabharata (1999) by
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