[[Файл:Uttara Abhimanyu.jpg|thumb|Uttara with Abhimanyu as he leaves for the war]]
'''Утта́ра''' ({{lang-sa|उत्तरा}}, {{IAST|Uttarā}}) — героиня древнеиндийского эпоса [[Махабхарата]], дочь царя Вираты, при дворе которого [[Пандавы]] провели год во время своего изгнания. SheОна wasбыла theдочерью sisterпринца of [[Uttara (Mahabharata)|Uttara]] (उत्तर)Уттары.
SheУттара marriedвышла Arjuna’sзамуж sonза [[Abhimanyu]]сына Арджуны и Субхадры Абхиманью. She was widowed at a very young age when Abhimanyu was killed in the Kurukshetra war. Her son, [[Parikshit]], was the sole surviving dynast of the Kuru clan and eventually became king of [[Hastinapura]]. It is also believed that Uttara had learnt dance from [[Arjuna]] as a princess during the 13th year of exile of the [[Pandavas]] when Arjuna lived a life of a eunuch and practiced his art of dance learnt from the apsaras in heavens.It is during this phase that [[Arjuna]] admired Uttara’s qualities and later proposed her marriage to his son [[Abhimanyu]].
