Uttara- The most underrated character
Uttara was 15, as I believe her to be according to my calculations, when she got married to Abhimanyu, the son of Arjuna. She got widowed just 4 months after her marriage WHILE she was pregnant with their son. She lost her brothers, father, husband to the war and would’ve also lost her son to the Brahmastra launched by Ashwatthama had Krishna not intervened on time. Imagine going through all that while being a teenager. I seldom see people talking about her so I decided to bring her up today. What do you guys think of her? Who else do you think isn’t mentioned much but is significant for the flow of events in the epic?
TRIVIA - All the Krishna idols we see today are basically her point of view of how she saw Krishna. The great grandson of Krishna called Vajra travelled all the way to Mathura to know more about his ancestors. He came across Uttara who was very old by then. She told him every minute detail of Krishna that she could recall. He then ordered an idol of Krishna to be sculpted from all the info he had gathered. All thanks to her for the Krishna we can visualise today by looking at his idols!💗💗