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Arjuna and Krishna as Nara and Narayana

Classical

Arjuna and Krishna are said to be the same two sages who sit in the Badrinath sanctum.

The Mahabharata identifies Arjuna with Nara and Krishna with Narayana; Krishna says in the Vana Parva 'you are Nara and I am Hari Narayana'. The pair's ashrama is at Badri. In a Purana story the asura Prahlada comes to fight them and loses, learning only devotion conquers them; another gives the nymph Urvashi her origin from Narayana's thigh.

Who: Nara, Narayana, Arjuna, Krishna, Prahlada

Bound to

Saugandhika lotuses and the yakshas of Kubera located-at

Arjuna and Duryodhana choose between Kṛṣṇa and his army mirror

The night before: Kṛṣṇa's promise, Arjuna's dream journey and the Pāśupata weapon mirror

Places: Badrinath

Where this comes from

• vulgate (Ganguli) · Ganguli translation of the Mahabharata (read via MahabharataOnline) Ganguli, Vana Parva, Krishna as Nara and Narayana (Section number not shown on the page read.)
• commentary · Wikipedia: Nara-Narayana Vana Parva; Bhagavata 3.4.22 cited

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