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Pampa Bharata: Arjuna as king, Subhadra as queen
Variant
A Kannada poet crowned Arjuna instead of Yudhishthira.
Pampa's 10th-century Jain Kannada champu Vikramarjuna Vijaya makes Arjuna the protagonist, identified with his patron the Chalukya king Arikesari II. After the war Arjuna is crowned king and Subhadra queen, not Yudhishthira and Draupadi. Krishna is less dominant and more cunning.
Who: Arjuna, Subhadra, Krishna, Arikesari
Places: Karnataka
Where this comes from
- regional-literary · Wikipedia: Vikramarjuna Vijaya