Book 7 of 18 — Critical Edition (Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute)
Drona Parva — The Book of Drona
द्रोणपर्व
The teacher takes command, the war's rules break one by one, and Abhimanyu dies inside the chakravyuha.
Episodes in this parva
Abhimanyu inside the wheel — A boy who knows how to break into a formation and not how to break out of it is sent in first, and the gap closes behind him
Continue through the epic
Bhishma Parva — Book 6 — Ten days under the grandsire's command — and, before the first arrow, Krishna's counsel to Arjuna, the Bhagavad Gita.
Karna Parva — Book 8 — Two days for the charioteer's son, and the duel with Arjuna that every earlier chapter has been arranging.
