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    Nala and Damayanti (Sanskrit title: नलोपाख्यान Nalopākhyāna, i.e. "Episode of Nala") is an episode from the Indian epic Mahabharata. It is about King Nala...
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    met him. Nala also developed feelings for Damayanti in the same fashion. Once, Nala observed a few swans with golden wings in a grove, and caught one...
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    Nala, King of Nishadha, found a beautiful swan in a forest. The swan told him about Damayanti. An impressed Nala told the swan to go to Damayanti and...
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  • Nala Damayanthi may refer to: Nala and Damayanti, characters from the ancient Indian epic Mahabharatha Nala and Damayanti, an episode concerning these...
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    "Nahusha the Snake and Yudhishthira" and "Ushinara and the Hawk". It also includes the love stories of "Nala and Damayanti" and "Savitri and Satyavan". This...
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  • tonic".: 146  The main characters of the poem are: Nala – king of Naishadha Damayanti – Nala's beloved, and later his wife Saraswati – goddess of learning...
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  • may also refer to: Nala and Damayanti, the episode in the epic, concerning the love story between Damayanti and the king Nala Damayanti (given name), an...
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    control and hydropower generation. The Upper Wardha Dam is also known as the Nala Damayanti Sagar, named after the famous characters Nala and Damayanti of...
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  • kingdom and riches. Nala later defeats him in a rematch, and is restored as the king. Despite his actions and lust for Nala's wife, Damayanti, Pushkara...
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  • dynasty), he appears in the legend of Nala and Damayanti in the Mahabharata. He employs Nala in the stables and the kitchen, under the alias of Bahuka...
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    Mal's version, the story of Nal (or Nala) and Damayanti has themes such as love, deceit and war between Hindu deities and Nal. On the other hand, Faizi talks...
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  • Nala Damayanthi is a 2003 Indian Tamil-language comedy film directed by Mouli, written and produced by Kamal Haasan. The film stars R. Madhavan in the...
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  • (disambiguation) Nala and Damayanti, an episode in the epic, concerning the love story between king Nala and Damayanti Nalan (disambiguation) Nalas, a village...
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    Sage Brihadashva consoles Yudhishthira by narrating the story of Nala and Damayanti. Brihadashva advises Yudhishthira not give in to misery despite the...
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  • Markandeya visits the Pandavas during their exile and tells them the story of Nala and Damayanti, Savitri and Satyavan, etc. Menaka was a beautiful apsara...
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    During the event, Damayantī recognizes Nala despite his disguise, and it restores their marriage and reaffirms their bond. Damayantī’s Svayaṃvara is significant...
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  • writer Unnayi Variyar and his 17th-century kathakali play (attakatha) Nalacharitham. The play is a recension of Nala and Damayanti, an episode in the Indian...
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    Nishadha king Nala's friend Rituparna was a ruler of Kosala. Brihadbala another ruler of Kosala during Dvapara Yuga, took part in Mahabharata war and was killed...
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    Rituparna (contemporary of Nala and Damayanti) Sarvakama Sudasa (contemporary of Anu Kings, Anga, Vanga, Kalinga, Pundra, Suhma, and Odra who founded the Anga...
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    paintings depicting episodes from the story of Dushyanta and Shakuntala, and Nala and Damayanti, from the Mahabharata. Ravi Varma's representation of Hindu...
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  • independent scholar and Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society who specialised in Oriental studies. He translated the tale of Nala and Damayanti in 1926 from...
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    similar story exists in Hindu mythology with Nala and Damayanti where Nala separates from Damayanti and is reunited with her. The story of stringing a...
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  • Laila-Majnun, Nala-Damayanti, Panchatantra, etc., are also the staple content of Indian miniatures. Abstract emotions of love, pain and grief; beauty and nature;...
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  • Bramhyaswa Aramyaswa (Contemporary of Nala, Damayanti, and Rituparna) Mudgala (Rajrshi who married Nala and Damayanti's daughter) Yavinara Pratiswa, Kampilya...
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  • (Hindu) Nala and Damayanti (Hindu) Narcissus and Echo (Greek) Nereus and Doris (Greek) Nyx and Erebus (Greek) Oedipus and Jocasta (Greek) Odysseus and Penelope...
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  • Nishadha kingdom, and the father of Nala. Nala, the son of Veerasena, became the king after his father. He was the husband of Damayanti, and their story is...
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  • Indian and Southeast Asian culture as a spiritual symbol and a decorative element. Hamsa is a part of the mythical love story of Nala and Damayanti. The...
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  • 1978), Sri Lankan cinema and television actress Damayanti, a character in Hindu mythology, princess of Vidarbha Kingdom and King Nala of Nishadha's wife. This...
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    known as Vidarbha in what is now Maharashtra in central India. Damayanti, the wife of Nala was the princess of Vidarbha. Similarly Rukmini, the eldest wife...
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    (1849) and Śākuntala (1853; 2nd ed. 1876). Translation of Shakuntala (1853) Hindu Literature: comprising the Book of Good Counsels, Nala and Damayanti, the...
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