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| image = Abhimanyu Kilss Lakshmana.jpg
| image = Abhimanyu Kilss Lakshmana.jpg
| caption = Abhimanyu kills Lakshmana
| caption = Abhimanyu kills Lakshmana
| family = [[Duryodhana]] (father)<br/> [[Draft:Mayuri (wife of Duryodhana)|Mayuri]] (mother) <br/> [[Draft:Bhanumati (Mahabharata)|Bhanumati]] (mother) <br/> Mansi (Wife)
| family = [[Duryodhana]] (father)<br/> [[Draft: Bhanumati (wife of Duryodhana) Bhanumati]] (mother) <br/> [[Draft:Bhanumati (Mahabharata)|Bhanumati]] (mother)
[[Draft:Lakshmanā (Daughter of Duryodhana and Mayuri)|Lakshmanā]](Sister) <br/> Kaalketu (Son) <br/> Lakshmi (Sister) <br/>  3 unnamed brothers <br/> 3 unnamed sisters
[[Draft:Lakshmanā (Daughter of Duryodhana and Bhanumati)|Lakshmanā]](Sister)
| relatives = [[Dhritrashtra]] (Grandfather)<br>[[Gandhari (character)|Gandhari]](Grandmother)<br> other Kauravas, [[Pandavas]](Uncles), [[Dushala]] (Aunt)
| relatives = [[Dhritrashtra]] (Grandfather)<br>[[Gandhari (character)|Gandhari]](Grandmother)<br> other Kauravas, [[Pandavas]](Uncles), [[Dushala]] (Aunt)
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In the [[Hindu epic]] ''[[Mahabharata]]'', '''Lakshmana Kumara''' (also spelled '''Laxman(a)''') was the son of [[Duryodhana]] and Mayuri and grandson of [[Dhritarashtra]] and Gandhari.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/iml/iml23.htm |title=Indian Myth and Legend: Chapter XVIII. The Battle of Eighteen Days |publisher=Sacred-texts.com }}</ref> He had a twin sister called [[Lakshmanaa]] who was kidnapped by [[Samba (Krishna's son)]]. He also had a sister named Lakshmi married to Vrishaketu. <ref>{{cite web|url=http://krsnabook.com/ch68.html |title=Krishna Book Chapter 68: The Marriage of Samba |publisher=Krsnabook.com }}</ref> Only few mentions of Lakshmana are there the ''Mahabharata''. He was the one who killed [[Kshatradeva]], [[Shikhandi]]'s son, on the twelfth day of the [[Kurukshetra War]], while himself being slain on the 13th day of the war by [[Abhimanyu]] who decapitated him using the ''nagashirastra''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.urday.in/mchakravyuh.htm |title=MAHABHARATA - Chakravyuh Abhimanyu`s Death |publisher=Urday.in |access-date=2012-08-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120611120140/http://www.urday.in/mchakravyuh.htm |archive-date=11 June 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/m07/m07043.htm |title=The Mahabharata, Book 7: Drona Parva: Abhimanyu-badha Parva: Section XLIV |publisher=Sacred-texts.com |access-date=2012-08-26}}</ref>
In the [[Hindu epic]] ''[[Mahabharata]]'', '''Lakshmana Kumara''' (also spelled '''Laxman(a)''') was the son of [[Duryodhana]] and Bhanumati and grandson of [[Dhritarashtra]] and Gandhari.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/iml/iml23.htm |title=Indian Myth and Legend: Chapter XVIII. The Battle of Eighteen Days |publisher=Sacred-texts.com }}</ref> He had a twin sister called [[Lakshmanaa]] who was kidnapped by [[Samba (Krishna's son)]]. Only few mentions of Lakshmana are there the ''Mahabharata''. He was the one who killed [[Kshatradeva]], [[Shikhandi]]'s son, on the twelfth day of the [[Kurukshetra War]], while himself being slain on the 13th day of the war by [[Abhimanyu]] who decapitated him using the ''nagashirastra''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.urday.in/mchakravyuh.htm |title=MAHABHARATA - Chakravyuh Abhimanyu`s Death |publisher=Urday.in |access-date=2012-08-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120611120140/http://www.urday.in/mchakravyuh.htm |archive-date=11 June 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/m07/m07043.htm |title=The Mahabharata, Book 7: Drona Parva: Abhimanyu-badha Parva: Section XLIV |publisher=Sacred-texts.com |access-date=2012-08-26}}</ref>


==In folklore==
==In folklore==