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The Padmavyuha

Padmavyuha is a well known War formation used by Dronacharya,the chief of Kaurava army against the Pandavas in a mission to capture Yudhishtira but eventually resulted in the death of Abhimanyu. Padmyavyuha was a lotus like dynamic defensive system which consists of multiple tiers which leads the warrior entering it to captivity. It was designed in such a way that it allows the intruder to come along the spherical formation to reach the target which was located at the center of it but as the formation is dynamic, it will be rotating and the way in which the intruder given access will be closed as soon as he passes a tier. This locking of exit results in the death of the warrior even before he reaches the target. The distance between any two tiers will be equal to a space of three hands and the number of tiers depends on the strength of the army.Signals will be given by the fellow soldiers on completion of clearing each tier by the enemy warrior and the deeper he gets into...