When Jayadratha didn’t actually kill Abhimanyu, why did Arjuna target him to avenge Abhimanyu’s death?

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helping us attain him Hare Krishna when Jaidrath didn’t actually kill Abhimanyu why did Arjuna kill Abhimanyu kill Jaidrath to avenge Abhimanyu’s death answer Jaidrath may not have killed Abhimanyu but he was responsible for Abhimanyu’s death Arjuna this event happened on the twelfth day when Dronacharya made the Chakravyuha and Arjuna had already been waylaid by the Samspatakas who were formidable warriors who challenged Arjuna and took him to a different part of the battlefield and after Arjuna had disappeared Dronacharya arranged for the army to reassemble in the form of a Chakravyuha and nobody on the war field except Krishna, Arjuna and Abhimanyu knew how to penetrate and Yudhishthira knowing that the Chakravyuha if it was not broken would break havoc in his army would destroy his army he approached Abhimanyu and asked him whether he could penetrate so Abhimanyu expressed hesitation saying that he had learned from his father Arjuna how to break inside a Chakravyuha but he didn’t know how to come out so at that time Bhima was also there and others were also there so the Pandavas assured him that if you can just break the Chakravyuha then we will follow you inside and we will break this Chakravyuha from inside so you have no fear so the Pandavas had a total planned strategy and they did not want to send a sixteen year old boy into the jaws of death when they asked Abhimanyu to break the Chakravyuha so Abhimanyu broke the Chakravyuha and just went right inside and the Pandavas were following right behind so at that time Jayadrath came in between and Jayadrath had a benediction from Lord Shiva that he would be able to check the cover of Pandavas apart from Arjuna once and because of that benediction you know he exhibited unexpected prowess and the Pandavas were just expecting that whoever comes in between we will be able to fight and defeat them because Bhima was there and Yudhishthira himself was a Maharatha also as were Nakul and Sahadeva all great warriors and they expected to be able to follow Abhimanyu so Jayadrath he already had a malicious intention and earlier he had tried to abduct Draupadi with the intention of violating her and at that time only because Bhima and Arjuna had caught him and Bhima would have killed him but only because of Yudhishthira’s forgiving nature he had been, he was alive so he already had a malicious intention and here when he came inside Jayadrath knew exactly what he was doing Jayadrath wanted his moment of glory but his moment of glory he took it at the cost of the life of a 16 year old boy that is Abhimanyu so he came in between because of Shiva’s benediction he was able to stop the Pandavas from following Abhimanyu and in this way Abhimanyu was practically laid into the jaws of death and the Pandavas watched helplessly, they fought and fought with Jayadrath, Jayadrath held them back and the remaining Kauravas forces who had been scattered and devastated by Abhimanyu’s ferocious attack they regathered and they rearranged themselves and the Chakravyuh closed while Jayadrath was holding back the Pandavas and after that the Pandavas were helpless outside the Chakravyuh and Abhimanyu fought ferociously inside and eventually he was killed in alone fighting against so many great warriors so the Pandavas had a plan to penetrate the Chakravyuh by Pandavas, here I am referring to Pandavas leaving Arjuna out, Arjuna was fighting elsewhere so Jayadrath with a malicious intention disrupted the plan of the Pandavas and by separating Abhimanyu from those who could have helped him was responsible for the death of Abhimanyu so Arjuna when he came back on the 12th night and heard about what had happened his anger was directed primarily towards Jayadrath because it often happens that in a war sometimes a warrior gets separated a warrior gets outnumbered by the enemy and at that time the allies of the warrior come and help but Jayadrath had deliberately arranged in such a way that Abhimanyu had fought in such a way, acted in such a way that Abhimanyu would have no allies to come to his help and repeatedly we see in the Mahabharata war when Bhima and Duryodhana are fighting so Bhima overpowers Duryodhana and then sometimes Bhishma comes sometimes Drona comes, sometimes Ashwathama comes and helps him and they take him on his chariot and then he goes to safety and then he comes back to fight afterwards after he has recovered so one time Yudhishthir was attacked by Karna and then Nakul and Sahadev came and Yudhishthir went to Nakul’s chariot and then that’s how he was saved. So in a Kshatriya warfare when one person is being overpowered, the friends come and help because Jayadrath very maliciously made a situation where nobody could come to help Abhimanyu.
That’s why Arjuna felt that it was Jayadrath who was responsible for the death of Abhimanyu and Arjuna avenged that Abhimanyu’s death by killing Jayadrath on the next day. Thank you.