Bhagavad Gita · Mahabharata Codex

Chekitana

चेकितान · cekitāna

Warrior of the Vrishni clan, fighting for the Pandavas

One of the last men Duryodhana kills before his own army is gone.

Chekitana is a Yadava warrior of the Vrishni line, a kinsman of Krishna. Like Satyaki, he chose the Pandavas when most of his clan's army marched with Duryodhana. He commanded a division and fought through to the eighteenth day, when Duryodhana killed him. The Gita gives him no more than his name, but in that name is a reminder that the war divided even Krishna's own people.