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WARRIORS CLASSIFICATION BY BHEESMA

These facts are from K m Ganguli translation of mahabharat

My thanks to MR. K M ganugli for translating the mahabharat which is available freely online.
This is not a copyrighted document , you can distribute as you want it .

Bhisma classifies people form both sides as maharathi, atirathi and ratha warriors, the literal
meanings are ratha means a car warrior, atiratha means a car-warrior capable of fighting at
one time with sixty thousand foes and maharatha means a great car warrior. It is hard to tell
which is greater atiratha or maharatha. But i think atiratha has the same meaning as
maharatha, reasons are at the bottom of the text

Bheesma doesn't classify himself .But vyasa calls him athiratha

Kaurava side
Maharathas
Drona

Aswathaman

Vrishasena

Satyavan

Alambhusha

Bhagadatta

Atirathas

Kritivarman

Salya

Bhrusivas
2 rathas

Jayadrathan

Rathas

100 Kauravas

Sudakishna

Vinda

Anuvinda

Nila

Five trigadha warriors

Laksmana

Dussana's son

Dandadhara

Vrihadvala

Sakuni

Jalasandha

achala

vrisha

Then karna is first called by bheesma as half a ratha , but on his bed of arrows bheesma calls
karna as equal to 2 maharathas and also says that karna is equal to arjuna or Krishna in terms
of strength , vyasa calls him an athiratha too
Pandavas side

Maharathas *
satyaki

abhimanyu

Virata

Drupada

Dhrishtaketu

Dhridadhanwan

Rochamana

Ghatotkacha

Draupadi 5 sons

Jayanta from panchala

Amitaujas from panchala

Satyajit (draupad's son )

Aja

Bhoja

Vardhakshemi
Atirathas
Dhristadhyumna

Satyajit (draupad's son ) #

Srenimat

king Vasudeva

Kuntibhoja

8 rathas
bheema

rathas
Yuddi

nakul

sahadeva

Yudhamanyu

Sikhandin

Kshattradeva

Chitrayudha

Chekitana, and Satyadhriti

Chandrasena

Kasya

Pandya
uttra

Uttamaujas

Five brothers (Kasika,Sukumara,Nila,Suryadatta and Sankha)

Vyaghradatta

Half ratha
Kshattradharman

Then arjuna is not classified by bhisma, but bhisma said that arjuna is great .But arjuna is
called as atiratha by vyasa

Also a warrior called Senavindu is said equal to bheema ,he is not classified too

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Gandherva

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* I don’t know why bheesma classified many as maharathi’s from pandavas side

# two times satyajit name is mentioned by bheesma , both correspond to the same person
satyajit son of draupada who was killed by drona .
Reasons for thinking athiratha and maharatha as same
1)This process of classification is called in KMG as "numbering the Rathis and Atirathas." and
not as "numbering the Rathis,maharathas and Atirathas",There is no separate class maharatha
is mentioned here

2)Then duryodhana addresses bheesma as "O Kaurava, to know who amongst all the warriors
of the foe and my own are to be counted as Rathas and who Atirathas." here also maharatha is
left ,this may mean that there are only two classifications Rathas and Atirathas

3)Drona who is called as maharatha by bheesma , then drona is also called as athiratha by vyasa

4)abhimanyu who is called as maharatha by bheesma , then abhimanyu is also called as atiratha
by vyasa

5)karna is called as 2 maharathas ,then he is also called as atiratha

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