Vrishasena

In the Hindu epic Mahabharata, Vrishasena (Sanskrit: वृषसेन, romanized: Vṛṣasena) was the eldest son of the warrior Karna.^[1] Along with his father, he fought in the Kurukshetra war from the side of the Kauravas and faced many prominent warriors like Draupadeyas, Drupada, Dhrishtadyumna, Nakula, Sahadeva, Virata, Satanika and many more.^[2]

Vrishasena
A Pahari painting by Nainsukh illustrating Vrishasena (seated fourth from the left) alongside other notable Kaurava allies.
In-universe information
Gender	Male
Occupation	Kshatriya
Family	Karna (father) Chitrasena, Dvipata, Satyasena, Sushena, Shatrunjaya, Banasena, Prasena, Vrishaketu (brothers)

Kurukshetra War

During the Kurukshetra war, Karna did not take part for the first ten days due to the dispute he had with Bhishma. After Bhishma's fall on the 10th day of the war, Karna and his sons, including Vrishasena, joined the war on the 11th day and fought against the Pandavas.

11th day

On the 11th day of the war, Vrishasena overwhelmed Satanika, the son of Nakula in a single combat, and afterwards fought against the other Draupadeyas and defeated them all. Then he fought against Sahadeva where he broke his bow and made him unconscious. Finally Satyaki rescued Sahadeva.^[3]

12th day

On 12th day of war he attacked the Matsya forces of Pandava army and created havoc by defeating King Virata and wounds him badly. Seeing this Abhimanyu came in aid of Virata and a fierce duel took place between Vrishasena and Abhimanyu.Vrishasena pierced Abhimanyu's chest and his thighs with couple of arrows but finally Abhimanyu managed to break his bow and defeated him.

14th day

On the night of the 14th day, Vrishasena engaged in a single combat against Drupada, the King of Panchala, and defeated him.^[4] Following, Drupada's defeat, he defeated Drupada's son Dhrishtadyumna commander in chief of Pandava army and made Drupada and Dhrishtadyumna to retreat.

15th day

On the 15th day of the war, Vrishasena Nakula and later engaged in a single combat against Pandava warrior like Nakula and destroyed his chariot.^[5] After that, Nakula mounted on Bhima's chariot, but Vrishasena continued to strike both of them, he broke Bhima's bow and pierced Bhima's chest with numerous sharp arrows. Then Bhima asked Arjuna to kill Vrishasena. Vrishasena later engaged with the group attack of Arjuna, Bhima, Nakula, Draupadeyas but ultimately he was killed by the pandavas in counterattack.Yudhistria pierced him with the shatki, nakula drew the sword over his neck, shahadeva broke his armour,bheema struck his skull with his mace. ^[6]