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The Great warrior - Barbaric

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 The Great warrior - Barbaric We all know the great warriors from the Mahabharata War. But how many of us know about Barbaric!!! Barbaric had a boon of 3 arrows, he could have finished the war in minutes with these divine arrows. He was the only Vedic Hindu warrior who could have shoot three arrows at a time. But the dilemma was he took an oath at the insistence of a sage (that sage was Krishna) that he would fight with the weaker side or the losing army. This means he would have to switch sides as the war progresses. Krishna told him that he (Barbaric) would kill Pandavas and Kauravas both, as his oath is destructive to the entire clan of Bharat. Krishna asked Barbaric to slice his head off and save the clans. Barbaric requested Krishna to allow him to see the entire Mahabharata war. He was then blessed that he will remain alive and his head was kept at a position in hill top from where he could see war. He witnessed everything that happened in the war. At the end of th