Cāru (Yādava)

Cāru · cāru, “the lovely one”

Cāru is a Yādava who fell in the destruction of the Yādavas at Prabhāsa. The Brahma Purāṇa names him beside Cāruvarmā among those who struck one another with the eraka grass.

At Prabhāsa

Vyāsa tells the munis that all the Yādavas went with Kṛshṇa and Balarāma to Prabhāsa. There the Kukuras and Andhakas drank surā, and as they clashed with one another the fire of quarrel blazed up and became the cause of the destruction of the Yādava line. Overpowered by daiva, they struck each other with weapons, and when the weapons ran out they seized the eraka grass growing nearby, which became like the vajra in their hands. Among those who struck one another with it were Pradyumna, Sāmba, Kṛtavarmā, Sātyaki, Aniruddha, Pṛthu, Vipṛthu, Cāruvarmā, Cāru and Akrūra.

Source: Brahma Purāṇa, Chapter 210

Sources

• Brahma Purāṇa, Chapter 210