Akshouhini is the term described for chaturanga sena[army].Chaturang sena means one which has ,chariots ,elephants ,horses and soldiers.One akshouhini is
- 170 sets of 21000 elephants
- 170 sets of 21000 chariots
- 610 sets of 65000 Horses
- 9350 sets of 100000 soldiers Army.
- That makes up 108 crores of Army in one akshouhini.
- Mahabharath was fought among 18 akhshouhini army
- Kauravas had 11 Akshouhini army
- Pandavas had 7 Akshouhini army
- some people opine akshouhini means around 200000 army
- But this does not seem to be correct as this gives as total army in Mahabharath as roughly 360000 only . But Kauravas had raised army from all over the world .And each country was known to have more than 1 lakh of army .
- Also Srikrishna was 68 years old at the time of mahabharath war. He had 16108 wives . each had borne him 10 sons and a daughter. These themselves make a 1 lakh 61 thousand + their armies ,ie Yadavas + [1000000 Narayani sena ] which fought from Kauravas side.
- Thus akshouhini cannot be just 200000 soldiers.
- Bheemasena alone single handedly killed 6 akshouhini sena in 10 days.
- that is 648 crores in 18 days
- 36 crores in a day[ average]
- 36 crores in 12 hours [ 6 am to 6 pm]
- 3 crores per hour
- around 5 lakhs per minute.
- 85000 in a second [warriors and equal amount of elephants horses]
- What kind of martial arts this could be.
- Fighting non stop 12 hours in a day and on a killing spree
- killing not just ordinary but well trained warriors
- This speaks of immense strength of Bheemasena.
- Bheeshma killed a 1 akshouhini sena in 18 days
- 120 years old man killing so many people in a war speaks a lot about yogic powers and divine nature of these yodhas.
- Indeed entire kshatriya clan was wiped out in the war .
- Most of the people born then as warriors were Devatas .
- Their offspring would be also divine in nature
- But God wanted Kaliyuga to start immediately after Mahabharata .
- These divine offsprings would never let that happen .
- hence he eliminated them in the name of war, left this world for the ordinary , and for kali to take over .
- Pandavas ruled for 35 years.
- Their son Parikshit carried on, and dynasty lasted for 1000 years.
Krishnarpana
