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Salwa Kingdom

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Salwa is a kingdom grouped among the western kingdoms in the epic Mahabharata. [1]

35 relations: Amba (Mahabharata), Avanti (India), Benares State, Bhishma, Chedi Kingdom, Dantavakra, Duryodhana, Dvārakā, Jarasandha, Jayadratha, Kalinga (historical region), Kaurava, Kosala Kingdom, Krishna in the Mahabharata, Kshatriya, Kuru Kingdom, Kurukshetra War, Madra, Madra Kingdom, Magadha, Mahabharata, Mahajanapada, Martikavati, Matsya Kingdom, Panchala Kingdom (Mahabharata), Pandava, Puru (Vedic tribe), Rukmi, Sauvira Kingdom, Savitri and Satyavan, Shishupala, Trigarta Kingdom, Vichitravirya, Vyasa, Yama.

Amba (Mahabharata)

In the Hindu epic Mahabharata, Amba is the eldest daughter of the king of Kashi, who considers the Kuru prince Bhishma responsible for her misfortune and her sole goal in life becomes his destruction, to fulfill which she is reborn as Shikhandi (the son of Drupada, the father of Draupadi).

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Avanti (India)

Avanti (अवन्ति) was an ancient Indian Mahajanapada (Great Realm), roughly corresponded to the present day Malwa region.

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Benares State

Benares or Banaras State was a princely state in what is today India during the British Raj.

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Bhishma

In the epic Mahabharata, Bhishma (Sanskrit: भीष्‍म) was well known for his pledge of Brahmacharya.The eighth son of Kuru King Shantanu and the goddess Ganga Bhishma was blessed with wish-long life and was related to both the Pandava and the Kaurava.

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Chedi Kingdom

Chedi was an ancient Indian kingdom which fell roughly in the Bundelkhand division of Madhya Pradesh regions to the south of river Yamuna along the river Ken.

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Dantavakra

Dantavakra (दन्तवक्र), was the king of Karusha according to the Mahabharata and the Puranas.

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Duryodhana

Duryodhana (literally means Dur.

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Dvārakā

Dvārakā, also known as Dvāravatī (Sanskrit द्वारका "the gated ", possibly meaning having many gates, or alternatively having one or several very grand gates) is a sacred city in Hinduism, JainismSee Jerome H. Bauer "Hero of Wonders, Hero in Deeds: " in and Buddhism.The name Dvaraka is said to have been given to the place by Krishna, a major deity in Hinduism.

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Jarasandha

According to the Hindu epic Mahabharata, Jarasandha (जरासन्ध) was the king of Magadha.

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Jayadratha

In the epic Mahābhārata, Jayadratha was the king of Sindhu Kingdom.

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Kalinga (historical region)

Kalinga is a historical region of India.

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Kaurava

Kaurava (कौरव) is a Sanskrit term for the descendants of Kuru, a legendary king who is the ancestor of many of the characters of the Mahābhārata.

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Kosala Kingdom

Kosala Proper or Uttara Kosala is the kingdom of the celebrated personality of Treta Yuga, Raghava Rama.

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Krishna in the Mahabharata

Within the Indian epic Mahabharata, Krishna was the son of the Yadava chief Vasudeva and his wife Devaki.

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Kshatriya

Kshatriya (Devanagari: क्षत्रिय; from Sanskrit kṣatra, "rule, authority") is one of the four varna (social orders) of the Hindu society.

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Kuru Kingdom

Kuru (कुरु) was the name of a Vedic Indo-Aryan tribal union in northern Iron Age India, encompassing the modern-day states of Delhi, Haryana, Punjab, Uttarakhand and the western part of Uttar Pradesh (the region of Doab, till Prayag), which appeared in the Middle Vedic period (c. 1200 – c. 900 BCE) and developed into the first recorded state-level society in the Indian subcontinent.

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Kurukshetra War

The Kurukshetra War, also called the Mahabharata War, is a war described in the Indian epic Mahabharata.

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Madra

Madra is the name of an ancient region and its inhabitants, located in the north-west division of the ancient Indian sub-continent.

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Madra Kingdom

Madra Kingdom was a kingdom grouped among the western kingdoms in the epic Mahabharata.

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Magadha

Magadha was an ancient Indian kingdom in southern Bihar, and was counted as one of the sixteen Mahajanapadas (Sanskrit: "Great Countries") of ancient India.

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Mahabharata

The Mahābhārata (महाभारतम्) is one of the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India, the other being the Rāmāyaṇa.

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Mahajanapada

Mahājanapada (lit, from maha, "great", and janapada "foothold of a tribe, country") was one of the sixteen kingdoms or oligarchic republics that existed in ancient India from the sixth to fourth centuries BCE.

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Martikavati

Martikavati (alias Matika, Matrika, Matrikavati) was mentioned as the capital of Salwa Kingdom in the epic Mahabharata.

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Matsya Kingdom

Matsya Kingdom (Sanskrit for "fish") was one of the solasa (sixteen) Mahajanapadas (great kingdoms).

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Panchala Kingdom (Mahabharata)

This article is about the Mahabharata epic kingdom of Panchala.

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Pandava

In the Mahabharata, a Hindu epic text, the Pandavas are the five acknowledged sons of Pandu, by his two wives Kunti and Madri, who was the princess of Madra.

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Puru (Vedic tribe)

The Purus (Puruvanshi) were a clan, or a confederation of clans, mentioned many times in the Rigveda.

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Rukmi

Rukmi (Marathi रुक्मी) (రుక్మి) was the ruler of Vidarbha according to the epic Mahābhārata.

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Sauvira Kingdom

Sauvīra was an ancient kingdom of the lower Indus Valley mentioned in the Late Vedic and early Buddhist literature and the Hindu epic Mahabharata.

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Savitri and Satyavan

The oldest known version of the story of Savitri and Satyavan (सावित्री Sāvitrī and सत्यवान् Satyavān) is found in Vana Parva ("The Book of the Forest") of the Mahabharata.

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Shishupala

Shishupala (शिशुपाल, lit. protector of child, IAST: Śiśupāla; sometimes spelt Sisupala) was the son of Damaghosha, king of Chedi, by Srutashrava, sister of Vasudeva and Kunti.

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Trigarta Kingdom

Trigarta kingdom was an ancient kingdom in the Northern India region of the Indian subcontinent with its capital at Prasthala (modern Jalandhar) and fort in Kangra.

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Vichitravirya

In the epic Mahabharata, Vichitravirya (विचित्रवीर्य, vicitravīrya) is the younger son of queen Satyavati and king Shantanu and grandfather of the Pandavas and Kaurava.

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Vyasa

Vyasa (व्यास, literally "Compiler") is a central and revered figure in most Hindu traditions.

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Yama

Yama or Yamarāja is a god of death, the south direction, and the underworld, belonging to an early stratum of Rigvedic Hindu deities.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salwa_Kingdom

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