Yuyutsu

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{{Short description|Character of the Mahabharata}}{{use dmy dates|date=June 2016}}
{{use Indian English|date=June 2016}}
{{Infobox character
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| name = Yuyutsu
| weapon = Bow and arrows
| info-hdr=Information
| caption = Contemporary watercolor painting of Yuyutsu
| family =
{{ubl|[[Dhritrashtra]] (father)|[[Characters in the Mahabharata#Gandhari's maid|A maid of Gandhari]] (mother)|[[Gandhari (Mahabharata)|Gandhari]] (step-mother)|
[[Kauravas|100 half brothers]] including [[Duryodhana]], [[Dushasana]] and [[Vikarna]]|[[Duhsala]] (half sister)}}
|image = File:Yuyutsuby245CMR.jpg}}

'''Yuyutsu''' ({{Lang-sa|युयुत्सु}}) in the [[Hinduism|Hindu]] epic ''[[Mahabharata]]'' was a son of [[Dhritrashtra|Dhritarashtra]] with Gandhari's maid (named '''Sughada''' in later retelling). He was the paternal half - sibling to Gandhari's children: [[Duryodhana]] and the rest of the 99 Kaurava brothers and their sister [[Dushala]]. Eventually, he was the only son of [[Dhritarashtra]] who survived the [[Kurukshetra]] war. He was the only son of Dhritarashtra to fight for Pandavas.

==Etymology==

The word ''yuyutsu'' is an adjective formed from the desiderative stem of the verb root "yudh" (fight, wage war), meaning "wishing to fight, bellicose." The Mahabharata cites the following other names for Yuyutsu- <ref>{{cite book|last=Parmeshwaranand|first=Swami|title=Encyclopaedic dictionary of Purāṇas|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_6F0ZIBIL2ZAC|year=2001|publisher=Sarup & Sons|location=New Delhi|isbn=9788176252263|edition=1st}}</ref>

* Dhārtarāstra (धार्तराष्ट्र) - son of Dhritarashtra
* Kauravya (कौरव्य) - descendant of [[King Kuru|Kuru]]
* Vaishyaputra (वैश्यपुत्र) - son of a [[Vaishya]] woman
* Karana (करण) - begotten by a Kshatriya on a Vaisya woman

==Birth==
Yuyutsu was a son of Dhritarashtra and SughadaYuyutsu was born after [[Duryodhana]] and [[Bhima]] and before [[Dushasana]], other 98 Kauravas brothers and [[Dussala]]. Thus, [[Dhritrashtra|Dhritarashtra]] had 102 children.<ref>{{cite book|last=Kapoor|first=edited by Subodh|title=The Indian encyclopaedia : biographical, historical, religious, administrative, ethnological, commercial and scientific|year=2002|publisher=Cosmo Publications|location=New Delhi|isbn=9788177552577|edition=1st}}</ref>

==Righteous in the Kaurava camp==
Yuyutsu is celebrated as a moral warrior who chose the path of righteousness, in spite of being born in circumstances that predisposed him to evil. He forwent his family bonds in order to side with [[dharma]].

Also, Yuyutsu saved the life of [[Bheem|Bhima]] by informing the Pandavas about Duryodhana's cunning schemes, which included poisoning water.<ref>{{cite book|last=Menon|first=[translated by] Ramesh|title=The Mahabharata : a modern rendering|year=2006|publisher=iUniverse, Inc.|location=New York|isbn=9780595401871}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/m01/m01130.htm|title=Mahabharata Text}}</ref> Both Yuyutsu and [[Vikarna]] abhorred Duryodhana's conspiracies and evil schemes; however, Vikarna stays loyal to the family and perishes in the war.<ref>[http://www.storypick.com/yuyutsu-moral-kaurava/ Yuyutsu was one of the 11 who managed to survive the war]</ref> Yuyutsu shifts from [[Kaurava]] camp to the [[Pandava]] camp. Yuyutsu fought the battle on the side of the [[Pandavas]]. He was one among the 11 Maharathis (capable of fighting 720,000 warriors simultaneously) among the son of [[Dhritarashtra]]. Yuyutsu was one among the eleven warriors to have survived the war.<ref>{{cite book|last=Buck|first=William |title=Mahabharata|page=327|isbn=9788120817197}}</ref>

==After the War==
When the Pandavas decided to retire from the world at the start of the [[Kali Yuga]] and departure of [[Krishna]], [[Yudhishthira]] gave the charge of supervising the kingdom to Yuyutsu while [[Parikshit]] was made the king<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_6F0ZIBIL2ZAC|title=Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Puranas|last=Parmeshwaranand|first=Swami|date=2001-01-01|publisher=Sarup & Sons|isbn=9788176252263|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Brodbeck|first=Simon Pearse|title=The Mahābhārata patriline : gender, culture, and the royal hereditary|year=2009|publisher=Ashgate|location=Farnham, England|isbn=9780754667872}}</ref>

==Citations==
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