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    The Mahābhārata (/məˌhɑːˈbɑːrətə, ˌmɑːhə-/ mə-HAH-BAR-ə-tə, MAH-hə-; Sanskrit: महाभारतम्, IAST: Mahābhāratam, pronounced [mɐɦaːˈbʱaːrɐt̪ɐm]) is one of...
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    the Mahābhārata went through many revisions, and mostly belongs to the period between c. 500 BCE and 400 CE. Within the frame story of the Mahābhārata, the...
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  • English by R. K. Narayan The Mahābhārata (Smith book), a translation of the Mahabharata by John D. Smith The Mahabharata (play), a 1985 French play by...
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    Chandra Roy Mahabharata, Sambhava Parva and Jatugriha Parva, Pages 335–338 McGrath, Kevin (2004-01-01). The Sanskrit Hero: Karṇa in Epic Mahābhārata. BRILL...
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    Vyasa (category Characters in the Mahabharata)
    epic and also features as an important character in Mahābhārata. The first section of the Mahābhārata states that Gaṇesha wrote the text to Vyasa's dictation...
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    (Sanskrit: अम्बा, romanized: Ambā) is a character in the Hindu epic Mahabharata. She is the eldest and most beautiful daughter of Kashya, the King of...
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    Ideology in the Mahābhārata. SUNY Press. ISBN 978-0-7914-7140-1. Buitenen, Johannes Adrianus Bernardus; Fitzgerald, James L. (1973). The Mahabharata, Volume 7:...
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  • (2001). Rethinking the Mahābhārata. University of Chicago Press, p. 17. Sukthankar, V. S. (1933). On the Meaning of the Mahābhārata. Bhandarkar Oriental...
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    Vettam Mani, the following names and epithets are used for Kṛṣṇa in the Mahābhārata: Acyuta Adhideva Adhokṣaja Ādideva Aja Amadhya Anādi Anādimadhyaparyanta...
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    Karna (category Characters in the Mahabharata)
    Sutaputra and Radheya, is one of the major characters in the Hindu epic Mahābhārata. He is the son of Surya (the Sun deity) and princess Kunti (later the...
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  • Cīna) are a people mentioned in ancient Indian literature, such as the Mahabharata, Manusmriti, and the Puranic literature. The origin of the Sanskrit name...
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    romanized: Uttarakumāra) is a prince of the Matsya Kingdom featured in the Hindu epic Mahabharata. He is the eldest son of King Virata and his wife Sudeshna, at whose...
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    appears 52 times in the Mahābhārata and only 6 times in the Rāmāyaṇa. The term is predominantly used in the Ādiparvan of the Mahābhārata and the Araṇyakāṇḍa...
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  • अम्बिका, romanized: Ambikā) is the queen of Kuru Kingdom in the Hindu epic Mahabharata. The second daughter of Kashya, the King of Kashi and Kausalya, she is...
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    2004). The Sanskrit Hero: Karṇa in Epic Mahābhārata. BRILL. p. 114. ISBN 978-90-04-13729-5. "The Mahabharata, Book 5: Udyoga Parva: Bhagwat Yana Parva:...
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    The khanda (Sanskrit: खड्ग) is a double-edge straight sword originating from the Indian subcontinent. The Rajput warrior clans venerated the khanda as...
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    Aesthetics of Suffering in the Mahabharata. OUP USA. ISBN 978-0-19-986078-4. Vyāsa Deva, Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana (2018). Mahābhārata : Sanskrit text and English...
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    romanized: Uttarā) was the princess of Matsya, as described in the Hindu epic Mahabharata. She was the daughter of King Virata and Queen Sudeshna, at whose court...
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  • The Mahābhārata is a noted abridged translation of the Mahabharata by John D. Smith, first published in 2009 by Penguin Classics. Viewed through human...
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  • Muttathu Varkey Award in 1994. The novel is a retelling of the Indian epic Mahabharata from the perspective of Bhima, the second Pandava. The story deviates...
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    a story mentioned in the Mahābhārata. A story of similar plot appear in the Buddhist Jātaka tales as well. In the Mahābhārata the story appears as a precursor...
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  • Bengali re-telling of the Mahābhārata, known as Kāśīdāsī Môhābhārôt, is a popular and influential version of the Mahābhārata legend in Bengal. Although...
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    Mahābhārata, Book 3: Vana Parva: Tirtha-yatra Parva:Section CXXXII-CXXIV, retrieved 7 April 2011 J. A. B. van Buitenen (Translator), The Mahabharata,...
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    Jarasandha. The legend of Bharata is featured in the Adi Parva of the Mahabharata, where he is mentioned as the son of Dushyanta and Shakuntala. The story...
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  • The Mahabharata (French: Le Mahabharata) is a French play, based on the Sanskrit epic Mahābhārata, by Jean-Claude Carrière, which was first staged in...
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  • the Critical Edition of the Mahabharata. Buitenen, Johannes Adrianus Bernardus; Fitzgerald, James L. (1973). The Mahābhārata. University of Chicago Press...
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  • Janamejaya (category Characters in the Mahabharata)
    Mahabharata (I.95.85). He was the grandson of great warrior Abhimanyu and the great-grandson of Arjuna, the valiant warrior hero of the Mahābhārata....
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    mentioned in the Mahabharata and the Puranas. King Drupada, whose daughter Draupadi was married into the Pandavas in the Mahabharata, belonged to the...
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  • Kinnara kingdom (category Kingdoms in the Mahabharata)
    In the Mahābhārata, Kinnara is a kingdom in the Himalaya mountains described as the territory of a people known as the Kinnaras. The Kinnaras, along with...
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    गन्धार) was an ancient Indian kingdom mentioned in the Indian epics Mahabharata and Ramayana. Gandhara prince Shakuni was the root of all the conspiracies...
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