Mahabharata - Chitrangad
He plays a tiniest part but its also like my favorite story
So King Chitrangad is next in line to the throne of Hastinapur and is this arrogant guy with, max, one working braincell. He thinks he is the greatest person ever and says that he is so powerful that he could vanquish the gods himself.
So one day he was challenged by a pissed off gandharva who was also named Chitrangad over their shared names, so if either party loses they have to change their name (the gandhavra operates on a one steve limit)
A pretty rigid rule that no two characters in a work of fiction (novel, movie, play, TV series, comic book, etc.) should share the same firs
So anyway, the human King Chitrangad accepts this challenge from a forest-spirit-demigod-master of-illusion-and-keeper-of-soma. It doesn’t end well.
Props to the prince, he puts up a valiant fight for three fucking years and then dies. The gandhavra then also dies (his sole purpose in life was to kill king Chitrangad) and then Vichitravirya becomes the next King and then thats the end!










