One of the five Pāṇḍava brothers. Son of Indra.

The third and most prominent of the five Pāṇḍavas brothers whose long war with the Kauravas, their enemy relatives, is described in the epic narrative of the Mahābhārata. Renowned for his skill in arms, Arjuna is especially known from the episode of the Bhagavad Gītā, in which he is the main interlocutor of Kṛṣṇa, his charioteer. As the incarnation of the divine, Kṛṣṇa counsels Arjuna at the beginning of the great battle to fight his Kaurava kinsmen. The Ārjunāyanas, “those descended from Arjuna,” were a people situated in northern India in the region west of Mathura, now comprising the Rajput states of Bharatpur and Alwar, where they became dominant after the gradual decline of the Indo-Greeks around the middle of the first century ʙᴄᴇ.

Arjuna is a central protagonist in the Sanskrit epic, the Mahābhārata. He is the third among the five sons of Pāṇḍu.