The child born still

Asked to break Drona's array, Abhimanyu says his father taught him to enter it but he cannot come out if danger comes; Yudhishthira and Bhima promise to follow, and he swears by his mother's name. Cut off inside, he is killed. That night Subhadra, hearing Krishna, laments: his lotus face in the dust, the bare earth for his bed, Uttara like a cow without her calf, and she prays that he reach every good end. Krishna tells her not to grieve; Draupadi and Uttara come and the three weep until they faint, and Krishna revives his sister. After the war Uttara's son is born motionless, struck by Ashvatthama's weapon. Kunti pleads first; then Subhadra says the weapon is still in her like an unpulled blade, reminds Krishna of his vow, bows her head and asks that Abhimanyu's son live. Krishna says 'So be it', enters the birth room, withdraws the weapon and swears by his truthfulness, his courage and his friendship with Arjuna; the child moves and is named Parikshit, born when the line had all but ended. At the end Yudhishthira gives Subhadra charge of Vajra, Krishna's great-grandson.