who is abhimanyu wife
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Marriage with Vatsala in Sasirekha Parinayam
In Sasirekha Parinayam (a folktale based on Mahabharata), Abhimanyu, the son of Arjuna, married another woman before his marriage to Uttarā. The woman was named Shashirekha/Vatsala, the daughter of Balarama.
Princess Uttarā was the wife of Abhimanyu and the daughter of King Virat and Queen Sudeshna and the sister of Uttar. She was the Princess of Matsya Desh where Pandav spent their incognito period. Draupadi disguised as Sairindhri waited on her mother and Arjun taught dance to her.
After the exile period, when the king came to know about the true identity of Pandavas, he offered his daughter Uttarā's hand in marriage to Arjun.However, Arjuna clarified to King Virata the doting relationship that a teacher has with his/her student is like that of a parent and child. He then proposed to make Uttaraa his daughter-in-law by marrying her to his son, Abhimanyu. Thus she was married and became pregnant after few days.
Uttaraa was widowed at a very young age when Abhimanyu was killed in the Kurukshetra war. When Abhimanyu died, Uttaraa tried to burn herself on the pyre of Abhimanyu, but Krishna stopped her from doing so, informing her of her pregnancy.
Towards the end of the Mahabharata war, with Uttaraa in labor, Ashwathama, son of Dronacharya, while trying to avenge the defeat of Duryodhana and the Kaurava army, engaged in a war with Arjuna. Knowing he could not beat Arjuna conventionally, Ashwatthama invoked the potent Brahmashira, despite the promise he had made to the father/teacher that he would never use such a weapon. When Arjuna fired a Brahmastra to match, Vyasa intervened, commanding both warriors to withdraw their weapons. While Arjuna successfully did so, Ashwatthama did not possess the required knowledge. Krishna suggested that Ashwatthama redirect the weapon to an uninhabited place. Regretful, tired, but still vengeful, Ashwatthama decided that if he could not end the Pandavas, he would end their lineage. He fired the weapon at Uttaraa's womb, attacking the fetus form of Parikshit. Krishna intervened and revived the stillborn baby, giving Parikshit his name.
As a punishment Krishna curses Ashwatthama that he would lose his source of power, the jewel that adorned his shining forehead. This loss of the jewel that adorned his forehead made Ashwatthama lose his state of mental alertness and he was forced to retire to obscurity as a derelict in the forests. Parikshit became heir to the Kuru dynasty and eventually became king of Hastinapur.