Drupada

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Drupada (Sanskrit: द्रुपद, lit. 'firm footed or pillar'), also known as Yajnasena (Sanskrit: यज्ञसेन, lit. 'he whose army is sacrificial', IAST: Yajñasena), is the king of Panchala Kingdom, in the Hindu epic Mahabharata. He is the father of Draupadi, the epic's heroine. In the Kurukshetra War as the head of 1 akshauhini army, Drupada fought from the side of his sons-in-law, the Pandavas, and was killed by his childhood friend and rival, Drona.

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