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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 1, Ch. 12]
dhanvinām —of the great bowmen;  agraṇīḥ —the foreman;  eṣaḥ —this child;  tulyaḥ —equally good;  ca —and;  arjunayoḥ —of the Arjunas;  dvayoḥ —of the two;  hutāśaḥ —fire;  iva —like;  durdharṣaḥ —irresistible;  samudraḥ —ocean;  iva —like;  dustaraḥ —unsurpassable.
TRANSLATION
Amongst great bowmen, this child will be as good as Arjuna. He will be as irresistible as fire and as unsurpassable as the ocean.
PURPORT
In history there are two Arjunas. One is Karta Vīryārjuna, the King of Haihya, and the other is the grandfather of the child. Both the Arjunas are famous for their bowmanship, and the child Parīkṣit is foretold to be equal to both of them, particularly in fighting. A short description of the Pāṇḍava Arjuna is given below:
Pāṇḍava Arjuna : The great hero of the  Bhagavad-gītā . He is the  kṣetraja  son of Mahārāja Pāṇḍu. Queen Kuntī could call for any one of the demigods, and thus she called Indra, and Arjuna is born by him. Arjuna is therefore a plenary part of the heavenly King Indra. He was born in the month of Phalguna (Feb.-March), and therefore he is also called Phalguni. When he appeared as the son of Kuntī, his future greatness was proclaimed by air messages, and all the important personalities from different parts of the universe, such as the demigods, the Gandharvas, the Ādityas (from the sun globe) the Rudras, the Vasus, the Nāgas and different  ṛṣis  (sages) of importance, and the Apsaras or the society girls of heaven, all attended the ceremony. The Apsaras pleased everyone by their heavenly dances and songs. Vasudeva, the father of Lord Kṛṣṇa and the maternal uncle of Arjuna, sent his priest representative Kaśyapa to purify Arjuna by all the prescribed  saṁskāras  or reformatory processes. His  saṁskāra  of giving a name was performed in the presence of the  ṛṣis , residents of Śatasṛṅga. He married four wives, Draupadī, Subhadrā, Citrāṅgadā and Ulūpī, from whom he got four sons of the names Śrutakīrti, Abhimanyu, Babhruvāhana, and Irāvān respectively.
During his student life he was entrusted to study under the great professor Droṇācārya, along with other Pāṇḍavas and the Kurus. But he excelled everyone by his studious intensity, and Droṇācārya was especially attracted by his disciplinary affection. Droṇācārya accepted him as a first-