Prasenā, Son of Karṇa

Prasenā was a son of Karṇa. He served in the Kaurava army at Kurukshetra. He appears in the Karṇa Parva on the seventeenth day of the war, during the hard fighting that led up to the last stage of the duel between Karṇa and Arjuna.

Death in the Karṇa Parva, Chapter 82

On the seventeenth day, Sātyaki killed Viśoka, son of the Kekaya king. Viśoka’s father Ugrakarmā was the Kekaya senāpati (army commander). To answer his son’s death, he turned his arrows on Prasenā and covered Karṇa’s son with swift shafts. Prasenā fell under the force of those arrows.

Karṇa’s response

Karṇa saw his son Prasenā fall. His grief turned at once into rage. He turned on Sātyaki and cried, “You are dead, Śaineya!” He shot a terrible arrow at him. Śikhaṇḍī stepped in and cut that arrow.

Karṇa avenged Prasenā’s death by killing Ugrakarmā. He cut off his arms and his head with three ardhacandra (crescent-headed) arrows.

Sources

• Mahābhārata, Karṇa Parva, Chapter 82