The Pandavas (Sanskrit: पाण्डव, IAST: Pāṇḍava) is a group name referring to the five legendary brothers, Yudhishtira, Bhima, Arjuna, Nakula and Sahadeva...
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Kurukshetra War (redirect from Pandava wars)
dynastic struggle between two groups of cousins, the Kauravas and the Pandavas, for the throne of Hastinapura. The war is used as the context for the...
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The Pandava Caves are located near Kadri Manjunath temple in Mangalore, Karnataka, India. Historians found that the current temple was a Buddhist monastery...
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Pandava Vanavasam (transl. The Exile of Pandavas) is a 1965 Indian Telugu-language Hindu mythological film directed by Kamalakara Kameswara Rao and written...
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Luthrodes pandava also called the Plains Cupid or cycad blue, is a species of lycaenid butterfly found in South Asia, Myanmar, United Arab Emirates, Indochina...
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Pandava Quintet is a five-part book series written by Roshani Chokshi. It is part of the "Rick Riordan Presents" publishing imprint. The first book of...
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from East Africa through China to New Guinea and the Marquesas Islands. Pandava laminata has a brownish body and legs with a much paler abdomen and darker...
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Pandavas: The Five Warriors is a 2000 Indian English-language animated Hindu faith film directed by Usha Ganesh Raja and produced by Pentamedia Graphics...
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Kauravas and the Pandavas by his father, Drona. He is also described as a Maharathi who fought on the side of the Kauravas against the Pandavas in the Kurukshetra...
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the eldest wife of Kuru King Yudhishthira, along with his four brothers (Pandava)— Bhima, Arjuna, Nakula, and Sahadeva. Her life story is discussed in the...
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In Indian football, Pancha Pandavas (Bengali pronunciation: [/ˈpɔñtʃo pāṇɖob/]) or VADAS, refers to the East Bengal penta-forward-line consisting of Ahmed...
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Lakshmia pandava is a species of moth in the family Cossidae that lives in Thailand. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Lakshmia pandava. Wikispecies...
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regional recensions of the Mahabharata. Abhimanyu was the son of third Pandava prince Arjuna and Yadava princess Subhadra. He was a disciple of his maternal...
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Mahabharata (section The Pandava and Kaurava princes)
succession between two groups of princely cousins, the Kauravas and the Pāṇḍavas. It also contains philosophical and devotional material, such as a discussion...
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In the epic, he serves as the royal preceptor of the Kauravas and the Pandavas. He is one of the primary counsellors and warriors featured in the epic...
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(utkacha) and shaped like a ghatam, or a pot. Ghatotkacha was the son of the Pandava Bhima and the demoness Hidimbi, and thus a half-human, half-demon hybrid...
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Sahadeva (category Pandavas)
Pandava brothers in the ancient Indian epic, the Mahabharata. He and his twin brother Nakula were the sons of Madri, one of the wives of the Pandava patriarch...
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princess of the Matsya Kingdom. Abhimanyu played a significant role on the Pandava side during the Kurukshetra War. The Kaurava soldiers banded together on...
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was initially built by the Pandavas, and is one of the twelve Jyotirlingas, the holiest Hindu shrines of Shiva. The Pandavas were supposed to have pleased...
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Karna (section Hostilities with the Pandavas)
He is the son of the sun god Surya and princess Kunti (mother of the Pandavas), and thus a demigod of royal birth. Kunti was granted the boon to bear...
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and their sister, Dushala. He was only son of Dhritarashtra to fight for Pandavas. The word yuyutsu is an adjective formed from the desiderative stem of...
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Nakula (category Pandavas)
Nakula (Sanskrit: नकुल) was the fourth of the five Pandava brothers in the ancient Indian epic, the Mahabharata. He and his twin brother Sahadeva were...
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Arjuna (category Pandavas)
the third of five Pandava brothers, from the lineage of the Kuru. In the Mahabharata War, Arjuna was a key warrior from the Pandava side in the battle...
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exile of the Pandavas and the consolidation of the power of the Kauravas. During the Kurukshetra War between the Kauravas and the Pandavas, Shakuni was...
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to burn Pandavas alive along with Kunti for which they built the palace out of lac (Lakshagriha) in a village named Varanāvata. The Pandavas, though,...
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The Pandavas and Krishna in an act of the Wayang Wong performance...
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Bhima (category Pandavas)
Mahabharata, Bhima (Sanskrit: भीम, IAST: Bhīma) is the second among the five Pandavas. The Mahabharata relates many events that portray the might of the hero...
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which the Pandavas are believed to have been immolated, Dhritarashtra mourns, but was able to finally name Duryodhana as his heir. When the Pandavas are revealed...
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Pandava is a genus of araneomorph spiders in the family Titanoecidae. In 1967, Pekka T. Lehtinen transferred the species Amaurobius laminatus, first described...
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उपपाण्डव, lit. junior Pandavas), also known as Pandavaputras (IAST: Pāṇḍavaputra, Sanskrit: पाण्डवपुत्र, lit. sons of Pandavas), Draupadeyas or Panchakumaras...
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