Narayani Sena

Narayani Sena or Yadav Sena (Sanskrit: नारायणी सेना / यादव सेना), the army of Lord Krishna of Dwarka Kingdom is called as the supreme Sena of all time. They were the basic threat to the rival kingdoms. Fearing Narayani Sena, many Kings didn’t try fighting against Dwaraka. Because Dwaraka sorted most of the threats through Krishna’s politics and talent of Yadavas. Using Narayani Sena, the Yadavas extended their empire to most of India.[1][2][3]

Composition of Narayani Sena

God Krishna was created this army by training Yadav peoples for his Kingdom. The total strength of Narayani Sena was around 10,00,000 Yadavas (warriors). The Sena includes Krishna’s 18,000 brothers and cousins. The Sena had 7 Atirathas (Krishna, Balaram, Samba, Ahuka, Charudeshna, Chakradeva and Satyaki). and 7 Maharathas (Kritavarma, Anadhrishti, Samika, Samitinjaya, Kanka, Sanku, Kunti).[4]

Involvement in Kurukshetra war

Before the war started in the Kurukshetra battlefield in Mahabharat (one of the two major epics of ancient India), both sides – the Kauravas and the Pandavas started out in all directions to meet various kings to solicit support. Incidentally, both Duryodhana (from Kauravas side) and Arjun (from Pandavas side) reached Dwarika, the kingdom of Shree Krishna together. Lord Krishna put forward a condition in front of both – you can have either me on your side or my entire army, the Yadav army – known as the Narayani Sena. He also told both that he wouldn't take to any arms during the entire war. So when Krishna first asked Arjun what he wanted, much to Duryodhana's delight, he opted for the Lord- 'Narayan' and Duryodhana got these great warriors of the strong army-'the Narayani Sena. When Narayani Sena was fighting for Kauravas, only Kritavarma and his army unit fought for the Kauravas. Satyaki fought for the Pandavas. The rest of the Atirathas and Maharathas were withheld from the Kurukshetra war on the advice of Balram and Krishna.[5][6][7][8]

Reference
  1. Gopal Chowdhary (4 March 2014). The Greatest Farce of History. Partridge Publishing India. pp. 129–. ISBN 978-1-4828-1925-0.
  2. Subhash Krishna (19 July 2020). Salvation by Lord Shri Krishna. Notion Press. pp. 431–. ISBN 978-1-64587-108-8.
  3. "Forces in war! - Indus.heartstrings".
  4. DigitalCavalry (2012-10-03). "Narayani Sena & Lord Krishna's Politics". I Yadav. Retrieved 2020-08-09.
  5. "The Narayani Sena Dilemma - Follow Krishna or follow Conscience". media.radiosai.org. Retrieved 2020-08-09.
  6. "Narayan or the narayani sena?". StoryMirror. 2020-01-03. Retrieved 2020-08-09.
  7. Jyoti Bhusan Das Gupta (2007). Science, Technology, Imperialism, and War. Pearson Education India. pp. 291–. ISBN 978-81-317-0851-4.
  8. Amit Palkar (1 February 2019). Moral Stories for All. Evincepub Publishing. pp. 46–. ISBN 978-93-88277-92-1.


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