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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Naishadha Charita (section Date and authorship)
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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Vana Parva (section Structure and chapters)
"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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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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Yudhishthira (section Tale of Nala & Damayanti)
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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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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Svayamvara (category Harv and Sfn no-target errors)
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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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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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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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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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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Odysseus (section Name, etymology, and epithets)
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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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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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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(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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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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