Bhagavad Gita · Mahabharata Codex

Shaibya

शैब्य · śaibya

King of the Shibi people, allied with the Pandavas

Duryodhana calls this enemy 'a bull among men'.

Shaibya means 'of the Shibis', a people of the north-west whose legendary king Shibi gave his own flesh to save a dove. The epic mentions a Shibi king, Govasana, whose daughter Devika married Yudhishthira, and the Shaibya in the Pandava army is of that allied house. Duryodhana's praise of him shows how seriously he takes the other side.