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Who is the mother of Pareekshit?

  1. Subhadra

  2. Uthara

  3. Droupathy

  4. Sathyavathy
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Explanation

In the Mahabharata, Pareekshit (also spelled Parikshit) was the son of Arjuna's son Abhimanyu and his wife Uttara (Uthara). Uttara was carrying Pareekshit when Abhimanyu was killed in the Kurukshetra war, and the child was born after the war. Subhadra was Arjuna's wife and Abhimanyu's mother, making her Pareekshit's grandmother.

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