Jayadratha

In the Mahabharata, the later of the two
great Hindu epics, Jayadratha is a king
who is married to the princess Dussala.
Dussala is the only sister of the
Kauravas, a group of one hundred
brothers who are the epic’s antagonists.
Jayadratha once sought the hand of
Draupadi, and because of his bitterness
at having lost her to the warrior Arjuna,
he opposes Arjuna and his brothers, the
Pandavas, for the rest of his life. During
the Mahabharata war between the
Pandavas and the Kauravas, Jayadratha
takes the side of the Kauravas and is
eventually killed by Arjuna. At
Jayadratha’s birth a celestial voice has
prophesied that the head of the person
who causes Jayadratha’s head to fall to
earth will split into a hundred pieces.
Mindful of this, Arjuna, a peerless
archer, cuts off Jayadratha’s head with an
arrow in such a way that it lands in the
lap of Jayadratha’s father, Brhatkaya.
Brhatkaya is so startled that he allows
the head to fall from his lap to the
ground, and his own head breaks into a
hundred pieces.