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354 relations: Aṣṭādhyāyī, Abhira people, Adi Parva, Aihole, Akbar, Albrecht Weber, Alf Hiltebeitel, Alms, Amar Chitra Katha, Amba (Mahabharata), Ambalika, Ambika (Mahabharata), Andha Yug, Anga, Anushasana Parva, Archaeoastronomy, Arjuna, Arjunawiwaha, Aryabhata, Ashramavasika Parva, Ashvamedha, Ashvamedhika Parva, Ashvins, Ashwatthama, Avanti (region), Avignon, B. B. Lal, B. R. Chopra, Bahlikas, Bahuk, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Balarama, Bali, Bard, Bṛhat Saṃhitā, Bengali language, Bhadrabāhu, Bhagavad Gita, Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Bhankora, Bharat Ek Khoj, Bharata (Mahabharata), Bharatas (Vedic tribe), Bhāsa, Bhima, Bhishma, Bhishma Parva, Bhrigu, Bibek Debroy, Brahmana, ... Expand index (304 more) »
- 3rd-century BC poems
- Epic poems in Sanskrit
- Hindu poetry
- Kurukshetra
Aṣṭādhyāyī
The (अष्टाध्यायी) is a grammar that describes a form of an early Indo-Aryan language: Sanskrit. Mahabharata and Aṣṭādhyāyī are Sanskrit texts.
See Mahabharata and Aṣṭādhyāyī
Abhira people
The Abhiras were a legendary people mentioned in ancient Indian epics and scriptures as early as the Vedas.
See Mahabharata and Abhira people
Adi Parva
The Adi Parva or The Book of the Beginning is the first of eighteen books of the Mahabharata.
Aihole
Aihole (ಐಹೊಳೆ), also referred to as Aivalli, Ahivolal or Aryapura, is a historic site of ancient and medieval era Buddhist, Hindu and Jain monuments in Karnataka, India that dates from the sixth century through the twelfth century CE.
Akbar
Abu'l-Fath Jalal-ud-din Muhammad Akbar (–), popularly known as Akbar the Great, and also as Akbar I, was the third Mughal emperor, who reigned from 1556 to 1605.
Albrecht Weber
Friedrich Albrecht Weber (17 February 1825 – 30 November 1901) was a Prussian-German Indologist and historian who studied the history of Jainism in India.
See Mahabharata and Albrecht Weber
Alf Hiltebeitel
Alfred John Hiltebeitel (April 10, 1942 - March 12, 2023) was Columbian Professor of Religion, History, and Human Sciences at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., US.
See Mahabharata and Alf Hiltebeitel
Alms
Alms are money, food, or other material goods donated to people living in poverty.
Amar Chitra Katha
Amar Chitra Katha (ACK Comics) is an Indian comic book publisher, based in Mumbai, India.
See Mahabharata and Amar Chitra Katha
Amba (Mahabharata)
Amba is a character in the Hindu epic Mahabharata.
See Mahabharata and Amba (Mahabharata)
Ambalika
Ambalika is the queen of Kuru Kingdom in the Hindu epic Mahabharata.
Ambika (Mahabharata)
Ambika is the queen of Kuru Kingdom in the Hindu epic Mahabharata.
See Mahabharata and Ambika (Mahabharata)
Andha Yug
Andha Yug (Hindi: अंधा युग, The Age of Blindness or The Blind Age) is a 1953 verse play written in Hindi, by renowned novelist, poet, and playwright Dharamvir Bharati (1926–1997).
Anga
Anga was an ancient Indo-Aryan tribe of eastern India whose existence is attested during the Iron Age.
Anushasana Parva
Anushasana Parva (अनुशासन पर्व, IAST: Anuśāsanaparva) or the "Book of Instructions", is the thirteenth of eighteen books of the Indian epic Mahabharata.
See Mahabharata and Anushasana Parva
Archaeoastronomy
Archaeoastronomy (also spelled archeoastronomy) is the interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary study of how people in the past "have understood the phenomena in the sky, how they used these phenomena and what role the sky played in their cultures".
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Arjuna
Arjuna was an ancient prince of the Kuru Kingdom, located in the present-day India.
Arjunawiwaha
Arjunawiwāha was the first kakawin to appear in the East Javan period of the Javanese classical Hindu-Buddhist era in the 11th-century. Mahabharata and Arjunawiwaha are Hindu texts.
See Mahabharata and Arjunawiwaha
Aryabhata
Aryabhata (ISO) or Aryabhata I (476–550 CE) was the first of the major mathematician-astronomers from the classical age of Indian mathematics and Indian astronomy.
Ashramavasika Parva
Ashramvasika Parva (आश्रमवासिक पर्व), or the "Book of the Hermitage", is the fifteenth of the eighteen books of the Indian epic Mahabharata.
See Mahabharata and Ashramavasika Parva
Ashvamedha
The Ashvamedha (translit-std) was a horse sacrifice ritual followed by the Śrauta tradition of Vedic religion.
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Ashvamedhika Parva
Ashvamedhika Parva (अश्वमेध पर्व.), is the fourteenth of eighteen books of the Indian epic Mahabharata.
See Mahabharata and Ashvamedhika Parva
Ashvins
The Ashvins (lit), also known as the Ashvini Kumaras and Asvinau,, §1.42.
Ashwatthama
Ashwatthama (अश्वत्थामा), also referred to as Drauni, is the son of Drona and Kripi/ Krupi a character in the Hindu literary epic, the Mahabharata.
See Mahabharata and Ashwatthama
Avanti (region)
Avanti, was an ancient Indian Mahajanapada (Great Janapada), roughly corresponding to the present-day Malwa region.
See Mahabharata and Avanti (region)
Avignon
Avignon (Provençal or Avignoun,; Avenio) is the prefecture of the Vaucluse department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region of southeastern France.
B. B. Lal
Braj Basi Lal (2 May 1921 – 10 September 2022) was an Indian writer and archaeologist.
B. R. Chopra
Baldev Raj Chopra (22 April 1914 – 5 November 2008) was a prolific Indian director and producer noted for pioneering the Hindi film industry and television series.
See Mahabharata and B. R. Chopra
Bahlikas
The Bahlikas (बाह्लिक; Bāhlika) were the inhabitants of Bahlika (बह्लिक, located in Bactria), mentioned in Atharvaveda, Mahabharata, Ramayana, Puranas, Vartikka of Katyayana, Brhatsamhita, Amarkosha etc.
Bahuk
Bahuk (બાહુક) is a Gujarati long narrative poem by Chinu Modi.
Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Bal Gangadhar Tilak (born Keshav Gangadhar Tilak (pronunciation: keʃəʋ ɡəŋɡaːd̪ʱəɾ ʈiɭək); 23 July 1856 – 1 August 1920), endeared as Lokmanya (IAST: Lokamānya), was an Indian nationalist, teacher, and an independence activist.
See Mahabharata and Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Balarama
Balarama (बलराम) is a Hindu god, and the elder brother of Krishna.
Bali
Bali (English:; ᬩᬮᬶ) is a province of Indonesia and the westernmost of the Lesser Sunda Islands.
Bard
In Celtic cultures, a bard is a professional story teller, verse-maker, music composer, oral historian and genealogist, employed by a patron (such as a monarch or chieftain) to commemorate one or more of the patron's ancestors and to praise the patron's own activities.
Bṛhat Saṃhitā
Bṛhat-saṃhitā is a 6th-century Sanskrit-language encyclopedia compiled by Varāhamihira in present-day Ujjain, India.
See Mahabharata and Bṛhat Saṃhitā
Bengali language
Bengali, also known by its endonym Bangla (বাংলা), is an Indo-Aryan language from the Indo-European language family native to the Bengal region of South Asia.
See Mahabharata and Bengali language
Bhadrabāhu
Ācārya Bhadrabāhu (c. 367 – c. 298 BC) was, according to both the Śvetāmbara and Digambara sects of Jainism, the last Shruta Kevalin (all knowing by hearsay, that is indirectly) in Jainism.
See Mahabharata and Bhadrabāhu
Bhagavad Gita
The Bhagavad Gita (translit-std), often referred to as the Gita, is a 700-verse Hindu scripture, which is part of the epic Mahabharata. Mahabharata and Bhagavad Gita are Hindu texts, Kurukshetra and Sanskrit texts.
See Mahabharata and Bhagavad Gita
Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute
The Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute (BORI) is a research institute involved in the conservation, preservation, and research of old manuscripts and rare books related to Orientalism, particularly Indology.
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Bhankora
The bhankora (plural: bhankore) is a type of brass instrument made of copper that is prominently used in the folk music of Uttarakhand in India, especially in the Garhwal region.
Bharat Ek Khoj
Bharat Ek Khoj is a 53-episode Indian historical drama based on the book The Discovery of India (1946) by Jawaharlal Nehru that covers a 5,000-year history of the Indian subcontinent from its beginnings to independence from the British in 1947.
See Mahabharata and Bharat Ek Khoj
Bharata (Mahabharata)
Bharata (Bharata) is a legendary emperor featured in Hindu literature.
See Mahabharata and Bharata (Mahabharata)
Bharatas (Vedic tribe)
The Bharatas were an early Vedic tribe that existed in the latter half of the second millennium B.C.E. The earliest mentioned location of the Bharatas was on the first Sarasvatī River in southern Afghanistan.
See Mahabharata and Bharatas (Vedic tribe)
Bhāsa
Bhāsa is one of the earliest Indian playwrights in Sanskrit, predating Kālidasa.
Bhima
In the Hindu epic Mahabharata, Bhima (भीम) is the second among the five Pandavas.
Bhishma
Bhishma, also known as Pitamaha, Gangaputra, and Devavrata, was a prince and commander of ancient Indian Kuru kingdom and is a major character of the epic Mahabharata and the protagonist of the Bhishma Parva episode.
Bhishma Parva
The Bhishma Parva (भीष्म पर्व), or the Book of Bhishma, is the sixth of eighteen books of the Indian epic Mahabharata.
See Mahabharata and Bhishma Parva
Bhrigu
Bhrigu (भृगु) is a rishi of Adi-rishi tradition.
Bibek Debroy
Bibek Debroy is an Indian economist, serving as the chairman of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister of India.
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Brahmana
The Brahmanas (Sanskrit: ब्राह्मणम्, IAST: Brāhmaṇam) are Vedic śruti works attached to the Samhitas (hymns and mantras) of the Rig, Sama, Yajur, and Atharva Vedas. Mahabharata and Brahmana are Hindu texts.
Brahmin
Brahmin (brāhmaṇa) is a varna (caste) within Hindu society.
Buddhadeva Bose
Buddhadeva Bose (1908–1974), also spelt Buddhadeb Bosu, was an Indian Bengali writer of the 20th century.
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C. Rajagopalachari
Chakravarti Rajagopalachari BR (10 December 1878 – 25 December 1972), popularly known as Rajaji or C.R., also known as Mootharignar Rajaji (Rajaji, the Scholar Emeritus), was an Indian statesman, writer, lawyer, and Indian independence activist.
See Mahabharata and C. Rajagopalachari
Chedi Kingdom
Chedi was a kingdom which fell roughly in the Bundelkhand division of Madhya Pradesh regions to the south of river Yamuna along the river Ken.
See Mahabharata and Chedi Kingdom
Chinu Modi
Chinu Modi (ચિનુ મોદી), (30 September 1939 – 19 March 2017), also known by his pen name Irshad (Gujarati: ઈર્શાદ), was a Gujarati language poet, novelist, short story writer and critic from Gujarat, India.
See Mahabharata and Chinu Modi
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (born Chitralekha Banerjee, 1956) is an Indian-born American author, poet, and the Betty and Gene McDavid Professor of Writing at the University of Houston Creative Writing Program.
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Chitrāngada
Chitrāngada (चित्रांगद) was the king of Kuru Mahajanapada with his capital Hastinapura.
See Mahabharata and Chitrāngada
Chittagong
Chittagong, officially Chattogram (Côṭṭôgrām, Chittagonian: চাটগাঁও Sāṭgão), is the second-largest city in Bangladesh.
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Christian Lassen
Christian Lassen (22 October 1800 – 8 May 1876) was a Norwegian-born, German orientalist and Indologist.
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Christopher Minkowski
Christopher Zand Minkowski (born 13 May 1953) is an American academic, who was Boden Professor of Sanskrit at the University of Oxford from 2005 to 2023.
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Cinema of India
The Cinema of India, consisting of motion pictures made by the Indian film industry, has had a large effect on world cinema since the second half of the 20th century.
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Clay Sanskrit Library
The Clay Sanskrit Library is a series of books published by New York University Press and the JJC Foundation. Mahabharata and Clay Sanskrit Library are Sanskrit texts.
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Compound (linguistics)
In linguistics, a compound is a lexeme (less precisely, a word or sign) that consists of more than one stem.
See Mahabharata and Compound (linguistics)
Damau
Damau (also damaun, dhamu or dhmuva) is a single-headed drum instrument that is played extensively in the folk music of Uttarakhand in India.
Damayanti
Damayanti is a figure in a love story found in the Vana Parva book of the Mahabharata.
Danava (Hinduism)
In Hindu mythology, the danavas are a race descending from Kashyapa and his wife Danu, a daughter of the progenitor god, Daksha.
See Mahabharata and Danava (Hinduism)
Demon
A demon is a malevolent supernatural entity.
Devayani
Devayani (translit) is a character in Hindu literature.
Dharamvir Bharati
Dharamvir Bharati (25 December 1926 – 4 September 1997) was a renowned Hindi poet, author, playwright and a social thinker of India.
See Mahabharata and Dharamvir Bharati
Dharma
Dharma (धर्म) is a key concept with multiple meanings in the Indian religions (Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism), among others.
Dharma-yuddha
Dharma-yuddha is a Sanskrit word made up of two roots: dharma (धर्म) meaning righteousness, and yuddha (युद्ध) meaning warfare.
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Dharmawangsa
Dharmawangsa, stylized regnal name Sri Maharaja Isyana Dharmawangsa Teguh Anantawikramottunggadewa (died 1016) of the Isyana dynasty, was the last Hindu raja of the Kingdom of Mataram, who reigned from 990 to 1016 CE.
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Dhol
Dhol can refer to any one of a number of similar types of double-headed drum widely used, with regional variations, throughout the Indian subcontinent.
Dhritarashtra
Dhritarashtra (धृतराष्ट्र, ISO-15919: Dhr̥tarāṣṭra) was a Kuru king, and the father of the Kauravas in the Hindu epic Mahabharata.
See Mahabharata and Dhritarashtra
Dio Chrysostom
Dio Chrysostom (Δίων Χρυσόστομος Dion Chrysostomos), Dio of Prusa or Cocceianus Dio (c. 40 – c. 115 AD), was a Greek orator, writer, philosopher and historian of the Roman Empire in the 1st century AD.
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Doordarshan
Doordarshan (abbreviated as DD) is an Indian state-owned public television broadcaster founded by the Government of India, owned by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting and one of Prasar Bharati's two divisions.
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Draupadi
Draupadi (Daughter of Drupada), also referred to as Krishnā, Panchali, and Yajnaseni, was the queen of ancient Kuru Kingdom, and the eldest wife of Kuru King Yudhishthira, along with his four brothers (Pandava)— Bhima, Arjuna, Nakula, and Sahadeva.
Drona
Droṇa (द्रोण), also referred to as Dronacharya (द्रोणाचार्य), is a major character of the Hindu epic Mahabharata.
Drona Parva
The Drona Parva (द्रोण पर्व), or the Book of Drona, is the seventh of eighteen books of the Indian epic Mahabharata.
See Mahabharata and Drona Parva
Drupada
Drupada (lit), also known as Yajnasena (lit), is the king of the southern part of Panchala Kingdom, in the Hindu epic Mahabharata.
Duhsala
Dushala was the princess of Hastinapura, and the only daughter of King Dhritarashtra and Queen Gandhari in the Hindu epic Mahabharata.
Durvasa
In Hindu scriptures, Durvasa (दुर्वासा), also known as Durvasas (दुर्वासस्), is a legendary rishi (sage).
Duryodhana
Duryodhana (दुर्योधन), also known as Suyodhana, is the primary antagonist in the Hindu epic Mahabharata. He was the eldest of the Kauravas, the hundred sons of the king Dhritarashtra and his queen Gandhari.
See Mahabharata and Duryodhana
Dushasana
Dushasana (दुःशासन,दुःशासन), also spelled Duhshasana, Dussasana or Duhsasana, also known as Sushasana, is an antagonist in the Hindu epic Mahabharata.
Dvapara Yuga
Dvapara Yuga (IAST: Dvāpara-yuga), in Hinduism, is the third and third-best of the four yugas (world ages) in a Yuga Cycle, preceded by Treta Yuga and followed by Kali Yuga.
See Mahabharata and Dvapara Yuga
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 historic city in the sacred literature of Hinduism, Jainism, and Buddhism.
Ebrahim Alkazi
Ebrahim Alkazi (18 October 1925 – 4 August 2020) was an Indian theatre director and drama teacher.
See Mahabharata and Ebrahim Alkazi
Evelyn Abbott
Evelyn Abbott (10 March 1843 – 3 September 1901) was an English classical scholar, born at Epperstone, Nottinghamshire.
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ʽAbd al-Qadir Badayuni
Abdul Qadir Badayuni (1540–1615) was an Indian writer, historian, and translator.
See Mahabharata and ʽAbd al-Qadir Badayuni
Faizi
Abu al-Faiz ibn Mubarak, popularly known by his pen-name, Faizi (20 September 1547 – 15 October 1595) was a poet and scholar of late medieval India whose ancestors were the Malik-ush-Shu'ara (poet laureate) of Akbar's Court.
Fifth Veda
The notion of a fifth Veda (Sanskrit), that is, of a text which lies outside the four canonical Vedas, but nonetheless has the status of a Veda, is one that has been advanced in a number of post-Vedic Hindu texts, in order to accord a particular text or texts and their doctrines with the timelessness and authority that Hinduism associates with the Vedas.
See Mahabharata and Fifth Veda
Frame story
A frame story (also known as a frame tale, frame narrative, sandwich narrative, or intercalation) is a literary technique that serves as a companion piece to a story within a story, where an introductory or main narrative sets the stage either for a more emphasized second narrative or for a set of shorter stories.
See Mahabharata and Frame story
Gandhara
Gandhara was an ancient Indo-Aryan civilization centred in present-day north-west Pakistan and north-east Afghanistan.
Gandhari (Mahabharata)
Gandhari is a prominent figure in the Hindu epic the Mahabharata.
See Mahabharata and Gandhari (Mahabharata)
Ganesha
Ganesha (गणेश), also spelled Ganesh, and also known as Ganapati, Vinayaka, Lambodara and Pillaiyar, is one of the best-known and most worshipped deities in the Hindu pantheon and is the Supreme God in the Ganapatya sect.
Ganga (goddess)
Ganga (गङ्गा) is the personification of the river Ganges, who is worshipped by Hindus as the goddess of purification and forgiveness.
See Mahabharata and Ganga (goddess)
Garhwal division
Garhwal (IPA: /ɡəɽʋːɔɭ/) is one of the two administrative divisions of the Indian state of Uttarakhand. Lying in the Himalayas, it is bounded on the north by Tibet, on the east by Kumaon, on the south by Uttar Pradesh state, and on the northwest by Himachal Pradesh state. It includes the districts of Chamoli, Dehradun, Haridwar, Pauri Garhwal, Rudraprayag, Tehri Garhwal, and Uttarkashi.
See Mahabharata and Garhwal division
Garuda
Garuda (translit; Garuḷa; Vedic Sanskrit: गरुळ) is a Hindu deity who is primarily depicted as the mount (vahana) of the Hindu god Vishnu.
Ghatotkacha
Ghatotkacha (घटोत्कच) is a prominent character in the ancient Indian epic Mahabharata.
See Mahabharata and Ghatotkacha
Girish Karnad
Girish Karnad (19 May 1938 – 10 June 2019) was an Indian actor, film director, Kannada writer, playwright and a Jnanpith awardee, who predominantly worked in Kannada, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Marathi films.
See Mahabharata and Girish Karnad
God
In monotheistic belief systems, God is usually viewed as the supreme being, creator, and principal object of faith.
Government of India
The Government of India (IAST: Bhārat Sarkār, legally the Union Government or Union of India and colloquially known as the Central Government) is the central executive authority of the Republic of India, a federal republic located in South Asia, consisting of 28 states and eight union territories.
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Gujarati Sahitya Parishad
Gujarati Sahitya Parishad is a literary organisation for the promotion of Gujarati literature located in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India.
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Gupta Empire
The Gupta Empire was an ancient Indian empire on the Indian subcontinent which existed from the mid 3rd century CE to mid 6th century CE.
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Guru–shishya tradition
The guru–shishya tradition, or parampara ("lineage"), denotes a succession of teachers and disciples in Indian-origin religions such as Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism and Buddhism (including Tibetan and Zen traditions).
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Harivaṃśa
The Harivamsa is an important work of Sanskrit literature, containing 16,374 shlokas, mostly in the anustubh metre. Mahabharata and Harivaṃśa are Hindu texts and Sanskrit texts.
Harivaṃśapurāṇa
was composed by Acharya Jinasena in 783 AD.
See Mahabharata and Harivaṃśapurāṇa
Hastinapur
Hastinapur is a city in the Meerut district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.
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Hermann Oldenberg
Hermann Oldenberg (31 October 1854 – 18 March 1920) was a German scholar of Indology, and Professor at Kiel (1898) and Göttingen (1908).
See Mahabharata and Hermann Oldenberg
Hidimbi
Hiḍimbaa (Sanskrit:, IAST: Hiḍimbaa), or Hiḍimbi, is the rakshasi wife of the Pandava Bhima and the mother of Ghatotkacha in the Mahābhārata.
Himalayas
The Himalayas, or Himalaya.
Hindi
Modern Standard Hindi (आधुनिक मानक हिन्दी, Ādhunik Mānak Hindī), commonly referred to as Hindi, is the standardised variety of the Hindustani language written in Devanagari script.
Hindu philosophy
Hindu philosophy or Vedic philosophy is the set of Indian philosophical systems that developed in tandem with the religion of Hinduism during the iron and classical ages of India.
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Hinduism
Hinduism is an Indian religion or dharma, a religious and universal order by which its followers abide.
Hindustan Times
Hindustan Times is an Indian English-language daily newspaper based in Delhi.
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History of India
Anatomically modern humans first arrived on the Indian subcontinent between 73,000 and 55,000 years ago.
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Homer
Homer (Ὅμηρος,; born) was a Greek poet who is credited as the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, two epic poems that are foundational works of ancient Greek literature.
Hooghly district
Hooghly district is one of the districts of the Indian state of West Bengal.
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Howard Spodek
Howard Spodek (November 4, 1941 – August 20, 2023) was an American world historian, a professor of history and geography and urban studies at Temple University.
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Huna people
Hunas or Huna (Middle Brahmi script: Hūṇā) was the name given by the ancient Indians to a group of Central Asian tribes who, via the Khyber Pass, entered the Indian subcontinent at the end of the 5th or early 6th century.
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I Gusti Putu Phalgunadi
Dr.
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Iliad
The Iliad (Iliás,; " about Ilion (Troy)") is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer.
Indian epic poetry
Indian epic poetry is the epic poetry written in the Indian subcontinent, traditionally called Kavya (or Kāvya; Sanskrit: काव्य, IAST: kāvyá).
See Mahabharata and Indian epic poetry
Indian independence movement
The Indian Independence Movement was a series of historic events in South Asia with the ultimate aim of ending British colonial rule.
See Mahabharata and Indian independence movement
Indology
Indology, also known as South Asian studies, is the academic study of the history and cultures, languages, and literature of the Indian subcontinent, and as such is a subset of Asian studies.
Indonesia
Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans.
Indra
Indra (इन्द्र) is the king of the devas and Svarga in Hinduism.
Indraprastha
Indraprastha (lit. "Plain of Indra" or "City of Indra") is mentioned in ancient Indian literature as a city of the Kuru Kingdom.
See Mahabharata and Indraprastha
Internet Sacred Text Archive
The Internet Sacred Text Archive (ISTA) is a Santa Cruz, California-based website dedicated to the preservation of electronic public domain religious texts.
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Iron Age in India
In the prehistory of the Indian subcontinent, the Iron Age succeeded Bronze Age India and partly corresponds with the megalithic cultures of India.
See Mahabharata and Iron Age in India
Itihasa-Purana
In Hinduism, Itihasa-Purana, also called the fifth Veda, refers to the traditional accounts of cosmogeny, myths, royal genealogies of the lunar dynasty and solar dynasty, and legendary past events, as narrated in the Itahasa (Mahabharata and the Ramayana) and the Puranas.
See Mahabharata and Itihasa-Purana
J. A. B. van Buitenen
Johannes Adrianus Bernardus van Buitenen (21 May 1928 – 21 September 1979) was a Dutch Indologist at the University of Chicago where he was the George V. Bobrinskoy Professor of Sanskrit in the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations.
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Jaimini
Jaimini was an ancient Indian scholar who founded the Mīmāṃsā school of Hindu philosophy.
Jain cosmology
Jain cosmology is the description of the shape and functioning of the Universe (loka) and its constituents (such as living beings, matter, space, time etc.) according to Jainism.
See Mahabharata and Jain cosmology
Jain literature
Jain literature (Sanskrit: जैन साहित्य) refers to the literature of the Jain religion.
See Mahabharata and Jain literature
Jain monasticism
Jain monasticism refers to the order of monks and nuns in the Jain community and can be divided into two major denominations: the Digambara and the Śvētāmbara.
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Jainism
Jainism, also known as Jain Dharma, is an Indian religion.
James L. Fitzgerald
James L. Fitzgerald is an Indologist at Brown University.
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Janamejaya
Janamejaya (जनमेजय) was a Kuru king who reigned during the Middle Vedic period.
See Mahabharata and Janamejaya
Java
Java is one of the Greater Sunda Islands in Indonesia.
Jnanpith Award
The Jnanpith Award is the oldest and the highest Indian literary award presented annually by the Bharatiya Jnanpith to an author for their "outstanding contribution towards literature".
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Johannes Bronkhorst
Johannes Bronkhorst (born 17 July 1946, in Schiedam) is a Dutch Orientalist and Indologist, specializing in Buddhist studies and early Buddhism.
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John D. Smith
John Dargavel Smith (born August 26, 1946) is a former professor of Sanskrit at Cambridge.
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John Keay
John Stanley Melville Keay FRGS (born 1941) is a British historian, journalist, radio presenter and lecturer specialising in popular histories of India, the Far East and China, often with a particular focus on their colonisation and exploration by Europeans.
Journal of the American Oriental Society
The Journal of the American Oriental Society is a quarterly academic journal published by the American Oriental Society since 1843.
See Mahabharata and Journal of the American Oriental Society
Just war theory
The just war theory (bellum iustum) is a doctrine, also referred to as a tradition, of military ethics that aims to ensure that a war is morally justifiable through a series of criteria, all of which must be met for a war to be considered just.
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Kacha (sage)
Kacha is a sage featured in Hindu mythology.
See Mahabharata and Kacha (sage)
Kakawin Bhāratayuddha
Kakawin Bhāratayuddha is an Old Javanese poetical rendering of some books (parva) of the Mahabharata by Mpu Sedah and his brother Mpu Panuluh in Indian meters (kāvya or Kakawin).
See Mahabharata and Kakawin Bhāratayuddha
Kalhana
Kalhana (translit) was the author of Rajatarangini (River of Kings), an account of the history of Kashmir.
Kali Yuga
Kali Yuga, in Hinduism, is the fourth, shortest and worst of the four yugas (world ages) in a Yuga Cycle, preceded by Dvapara Yuga and followed by the next cycle's Krita (Satya) Yuga.
Kalidasa
Kālidāsa (कालिदास, "Servant of Kali"; 4th–5th century CE) was a Classical Sanskrit author who is often considered ancient India's greatest poet and playwright.
Kalpa (Vedanga)
Kalpa (कल्प) means "proper, fit" and is one of the six disciplines of the Vedānga, or ancillary science connected with the Vedas – the scriptures of Hinduism. Mahabharata and Kalpa (Vedanga) are Hindu texts.
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Kalyug (1981 film)
Kalyug (Age of vice) is a 1981 Indian Hindi-language crime drama film, directed by Shyam Benegal.
See Mahabharata and Kalyug (1981 film)
Kambojas
The Kambojas were a southeastern Iranian people who inhabited the northeastern most part of the territory populated by Iranian tribes, which bordered the Indian lands.
Kanaiyalal Maneklal Munshi
Kanhaiyalal Maneklal Munshi (30 December 1887 – 8 February 1971), popularly known by his pen name Ghanshyam Vyas, was an Indian independence movement activist, politician, writer from Gujarat state.
See Mahabharata and Kanaiyalal Maneklal Munshi
Kannada
Kannada (ಕನ್ನಡ), formerly also known as Canarese, is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by the people of Karnataka in southwestern India, with minorities in all neighbouring states.
Karma in Jainism
Karma is the basic principle within an overarching psycho-cosmology in Jainism.
See Mahabharata and Karma in Jainism
Karna
Karna (Sanskrit: कर्ण, IAST: Karṇa), also known as Vasusena, Anga-raja, and Radheya, is one of the main protagonists of the Hindu epic Mahābhārata.
Karna Parva
The Karna Parva (कर्ण पर्व), or the Book of Karna, is the eighth of eighteen books of the Indian Epic Mahabharata.
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Kattaikkuttu
Kattaikkuttu is a rural theatre form practised in the State of Tamil Nadu in South India.
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Kaurava
Kaurava is a Sanskrit term which refers to descendants of Kuru, a legendary king of India who is the ancestor of many of the characters of the epic Mahabharata.
Kavindra Parameshwar
Kavindra Parameshwar (কবিন্দ্র পরমেশ্বর) or Parameshwar Das, was a medieval Bengali poet.
See Mahabharata and Kavindra Parameshwar
Kekaya
Kekaya (Sanskrit) was an ancient Indo-Aryan tribe of north-western South Asia whose existence is attested during the Iron Age (c.1100–500 BCE).
Kindama
Kindama (किन्दम) is a rishi featured in the Hindu epic Mahabharata.
Kisari Mohan Ganguli
Utkarsh Upadhyay (also K. M. Ganguli) was an Indian translator known for being the first to provide a complete translation of the Sanskrit epic Mahabharata in English.
See Mahabharata and Kisari Mohan Ganguli
Kolkata
Kolkata, formerly known as Calcutta (its official name until 2001), is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of West Bengal.
Kripa
Kripa (lit), also known as Kripacharya (कृपाचार्य), is a figure in Hindu mythology.
Krishna
Krishna (Sanskrit: कृष्ण) is a major deity in Hinduism.
Krishna Udayasankar
Krishna Udayasankar is a Singapore-based Indian author, known for her modern retelling of Mahabharata through the novel cycle, The Aryavarta Chronicles (Govinda, Kaurava and Kurukshetra).
See Mahabharata and Krishna Udayasankar
Kritavarma
Kritavarma (कृतवर्मा) is a Vrishni Yadava warrior in Hinduism.
See Mahabharata and Kritavarma
Kshatriya
Kshatriya (from Sanskrit, "rule, authority"; also called Rajanya) is one of the four varnas (social orders) of Hindu society and is associated with the warrior aristocracy.
Kunti
Kunti (कुन्ती), born Pritha (पृथा), was the queen of Kuru in the Hindu epic Mahabharata.
Kuru Kingdom
Kuru was a Vedic Indo-Aryan tribal union in northern Iron Age India of the Bharatas and other Puru clans.
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Kurukshetra
Kurukshetra is a city and administrative headquarters of Kurukshetra district in the Indian state of Haryana.
See Mahabharata and Kurukshetra
Kurukshetra War
The Kurukshetra War (कुरुक्षेत्र युद्ध), also called the Mahabharata War, is a war described in the Hindu epic poem Mahabharata, arising from a dynastic struggle between two groups of cousins, the Kauravas and the Pandavas, for the throne of Hastinapura. Mahabharata and Kurukshetra War are Kurukshetra.
See Mahabharata and Kurukshetra War
Kushan Empire
The Kushan Empire (– AD) was a syncretic empire formed by the Yuezhi in the Bactrian territories in the early 1st century.
See Mahabharata and Kushan Empire
Lexico
Lexico was a dictionary website that provided a collection of English and Spanish dictionaries produced by Oxford University Press (OUP), the publishing house of the University of Oxford.
List of ancient Indo-Aryan peoples and tribes
This is a list of ancient Indo-Aryan peoples and tribes that are mentioned in the literature of Indian religions.
See Mahabharata and List of ancient Indo-Aryan peoples and tribes
List of characters in the Mahabharata
The Mahābhārata is one of the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India, composed by Veda Vyasa.
See Mahabharata and List of characters in the Mahabharata
Loeb Classical Library
The Loeb Classical Library (LCL; named after James Loeb) is a series of books originally published by Heinemann in London, but is currently published by Harvard University Press.
See Mahabharata and Loeb Classical Library
Madhya Pradesh
Madhya Pradesh (meaning 'central province') is a state in central India.
See Mahabharata and Madhya Pradesh
Madhyamavyayoga
Madhyamavyayoga is a Sanskrit play attributed to Bhāsa, a famous Sanskrit poet.
See Mahabharata and Madhyamavyayoga
Madra
Madra (Sanskrit) was an ancient Indo-Aryan tribe of north-western South Asia whose existence is attested since the Iron Age (c.1100–500 BCE).
Madri
Madri (माद्री) was the princess of Madra Kingdom and the second wife of Pandu, the king of Kuru Kingdom in the epic Mahabharata.
Magadha
Magadha also called the Kingdom of Magadha or the Magadha Empire, was a kingdom and empire, and one of the sixteen lit during the Second Urbanization period, based in southern Bihar in the eastern Ganges Plain, in Ancient India.
Mahabharat (1988 TV series)
Mahabharat is an Indian Hindi-language epic television series based on the ancient Sanskrit epic Mahabharata.
See Mahabharata and Mahabharat (1988 TV series)
Mahabharat (2013 film)
Mahabharat is a 2013 Indian Hindi-language animated film, directed by Amaan Khan and based on the Hindu epic of the same name.
See Mahabharata and Mahabharat (2013 film)
Mahabharat (2013 TV series)
Mahabharat is a 2013 Indian mythological television series based on the Sanskrit epic Mahabharata.
See Mahabharata and Mahabharat (2013 TV series)
Mahabharata (comics)
Mahabharata (also known as Amar Chitra Katha's Mahabharata) is a comic adaptation of the Indian epic poem Mahabharata.
See Mahabharata and Mahabharata (comics)
Mahapadma Nanda
Mahapadma Nanda (IAST: Mahāpadmānanda; r. c. 345–329 BCE), (died 329 BCE) according to the Puranas, was the first Emperor of the Nanda Empire of ancient India.
See Mahabharata and Mahapadma Nanda
Mahaprasthanika Parva
Mahaprasthanika Parva (महाप्रस्थानिक पर्व.), or the "Book of the Great Journey", is the seventeenth of eighteen books of the Indian epic Mahabharata.
See Mahabharata and Mahaprasthanika Parva
Maharaja
Maharaja (also spelled Maharajah or Maharaj) was a princely or royal title used by some Hindu monarchs since the ancient times.
Mahatma Gandhi
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (ISO: Mōhanadāsa Karamacaṁda Gāṁdhī; 2 October 186930 January 1948) was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist and political ethicist who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign for India's independence from British rule.
See Mahabharata and Mahatma Gandhi
Mathura
Mathura is a city and the administrative headquarters of Mathura district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.
Matsya Kingdom
Matsya (मत्स्य) was a Vedic kingdom and later became a part of sixteen Mahajanapadas, which also appears in Hindu Epic literature.
See Mahabharata and Matsya Kingdom
Maurya Empire
The Maurya Empire (Ashokan Prakrit: 𑀫𑀸𑀕𑀥𑁂, Māgadhe) was a geographically extensive Iron Age historical power in South Asia based in Magadha (present day Bihar).
See Mahabharata and Maurya Empire
Mausala Parva
The Mausala Parva (lit) is the sixteenth of the eighteen books of the ancient Indian epic Mahabharata.
See Mahabharata and Mausala Parva
Maximilian Wolfgang Duncker
Maximilian Wolfgang Duncker (15 October 1811 – 21 July 1886) was a German historian and politician.
See Mahabharata and Maximilian Wolfgang Duncker
Mayasura
Maya (मय) or Mayāsura (मयासुर) is a figure in Hindu mythology.
Michael Witzel
Michael Witzel (born July 18, 1943) is a German-American philologist, comparative mythologist and Indologist.
See Mahabharata and Michael Witzel
Moksha (Jainism)
Sanskrit or Prakrit mokkha refers to the liberation or salvation of a soul from saṃsāra, the cycle of birth and death.
See Mahabharata and Moksha (Jainism)
Moortidevi Award
The Moortidevi Award is an Indian literary award annually presented by the Bharatiya Jnanpith, a literary and research organisation.
See Mahabharata and Moortidevi Award
Moriz Winternitz
Moriz Winternitz (Horn, December 23, 1863 – Prague, January 9, 1937) was a scholar from Austria who began his Indology contributions working with Max Müller at the Oxford University.
See Mahabharata and Moriz Winternitz
Motilal Banarsidass
Motilal Banarsidass Publishing House (MLBD) is an Indian academic publishing house, founded in Delhi, India in 1903.
See Mahabharata and Motilal Banarsidass
Naimiṣāraṇya (forest)
Naimiṣāraṇya, also referred as Naimisha is a sacred forest frequently mentioned in Puranic literature, as well as both the Ramayana and the Mahabharata.
See Mahabharata and Naimiṣāraṇya (forest)
Nakula
Nakula was the fourth of the five Pandava brothers in the ancient Indian epic, the Mahabharata.
Nala
Nala is a character in the Vana Parva book of the Mahabharata.
Names for India
The Republic of India has two principal official short names, each of which is historically significant, India and Bharat.
See Mahabharata and Names for India
Neelakantha Chaturdhara
Neelakantha Chaturdhara (नीलकण्ठ चतुर्धर, IAST: Nīlakaṇṭha Caturdhara) (also referred as Neelakantha Chaturdhar) was a scholar who lived in Varanasi in the later half of the 17th century, famous for his commentary on the Mahabharata.
See Mahabharata and Neelakantha Chaturdhara
Neminatha
Nemināth (Devanagari: नेमिनाथ) (Sanskrit: नेमिनाथः), also known as Nemi and Ariṣṭanemi (Devanagari: अरिष्टनेमि), is the twenty-second tirthankara of Jainism in the present age (Avasarpini).
New York University
New York University (NYU) is a private research university in New York City, United States.
See Mahabharata and New York University
Niyoga
Niyoga (नियोग) was a Hindu practice, primarily followed during the ancient period.
Odyssey
The Odyssey (Odýsseia) is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer.
Old Javanese
Old Javanese or Kawi is the oldest attested phase of the Javanese language.
See Mahabharata and Old Javanese
Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.
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Pañcāla
Panchala was an ancient kingdom of northern India, located in the Ganges-Yamuna Doab of the Upper Gangetic plain which is identified as Kanyakubja or region around Kannauj.
Padmanabh Jaini
Padmanabh Shrivarma Jaini (October 23, 1923 - May 25, 2021) was an Indian born scholar of Jainism and Buddhism, living in Berkeley, California, United States.
See Mahabharata and Padmanabh Jaini
Painted Grey Ware culture
The Painted Grey Ware culture (PGW) is an Iron Age Indo-Aryan culture of the western Gangetic plain and the Ghaggar-Hakra valley in the Indian subcontinent, conventionally dated 1200 to 600–500 BCE, or from 1300 to 500–300 BCE.
See Mahabharata and Painted Grey Ware culture
Pancharatra
Pancharatra (IAST: Pāñcarātra) was a religious movement in Hinduism that originated in late 3rd-century BCE around the ideas of Narayana and the various avatars of Vishnu as their central deities.
See Mahabharata and Pancharatra
Panchavimsha Brahmana
The Tandya Mahabrahmana (or the Praudha Brahmana) ("great" Brahmana), also known as the Panchavimsha Brahmana from its consisting of twenty-five prapathakas (chapters) is a Brahmana of the Samaveda, belonging to both of its Kauthuma and Ranayaniya shakhas.
See Mahabharata and Panchavimsha Brahmana
Pandav Lila
Pandav Lila or Pandav Nritya (Sanskrit; literally "play of the Pandavas" and "dance of the Pandavas" respectively) is a ritual re-enactment of stories from the Hindu epic Mahabharata, through singing, dancing and recitation, that is practised in the Garhwal region of Uttarakhand, India.
See Mahabharata and Pandav Lila
Pandava
The Pandavas (Sanskrit: पाण्डव, IAST: Pāṇḍava) is a group name referring to the five legendary brothers, Yudhishtira, Bhima, Arjuna, Nakula and Sahadeva, who are central figures of the Hindu epic Mahabharata.
Pandu
Pandu (pale) was the king of Kuru Kingdom, with capital at Hastinapur in the epic Mahabharata.
Pandya dynasty
The Pandyan dynasty, also referred to as the Pandyas of Madurai, was an ancient Tamil dynasty of South India, and among the four great kingdoms of Tamilakam, the other three being the Pallavas, the Cholas and the Cheras.
See Mahabharata and Pandya dynasty
Parama Kamboja Kingdom
Parama Kamboja Kingdom was mentioned in the epic Mahabharata to be on the far north west along with the Bahlika, Uttara Madra and Uttara Kuru countries.
See Mahabharata and Parama Kamboja Kingdom
Parashara
Parashara (Sanskrit: पराशर; IAST) was a maharishi and the author of many ancient Indian texts.
Parikshit
Parīkṣit (परीक्षित्) was a Kuru king who reigned during the Middle Vedic period (12th–10th centuries BCE).
Patrick Olivelle
Patrick Olivelle is an Indologist.
See Mahabharata and Patrick Olivelle
Pāṇini
(पाणिनि.) was a logician, Sanskrit philologist, grammarian, and revered scholar in ancient India, variously dated between the 7th and 4th century BCE.
Persian language
Persian, also known by its endonym Farsi (Fārsī|), is a Western Iranian language belonging to the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian subdivision of the Indo-European languages.
See Mahabharata and Persian language
Peter Brook
Peter Stephen Paul Brook (21 March 1925 – 2 July 2022) was an English theatre and film director.
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Petruk
Petruk is a character in traditional Javanese puppetry, or wayang.
Pilgrimage
A pilgrimage is a journey to a holy place, which can lead to a personal transformation, after which the pilgrim returns to their daily life.
See Mahabharata and Pilgrimage
Pitch-accent language
A pitch-accent language is a type of language that, when spoken, has certain syllables in words or morphemes that are prominent, as indicated by a distinct contrasting pitch (linguistic tone) rather than by loudness or length, as in some other languages like English.
See Mahabharata and Pitch-accent language
Polyandry
Polyandry is a form of polygamy in which a woman takes two or more husbands at the same time.
Prakash Jha
Prakash Jha (born 27 February 1952) is an Indian film producer, actor, director and screenwriter, mostly known for his political and socio-political films such as Hip Hip Hurray (1984), Damul (1984), Mrityudand (1997), Gangaajal (2003), Apaharan (2005), and his multi-starrer films, Raajneeti (2010), Aarakshan (2011), Chakravyuh (2012), and Satyagraha (2013).
See Mahabharata and Prakash Jha
Pratibha Ray
Pratibha Ray (born 21 January 1944) is an Indian academic and writer of Odia-language novels and stories.
See Mahabharata and Pratibha Ray
Public domain
The public domain (PD) consists of all the creative work to which no exclusive intellectual property rights apply.
See Mahabharata and Public domain
Pulakeshin II
Pulakeshi II (IAST: Pulakeśhi r. –642 CE) popularly known as Immaḍi Pulakeśi, was the greatest Chalukyan Emperor who reigned from Vatapi (present-day Badami in Karnataka, India).
See Mahabharata and Pulakeshin II
Pune
Pune, previously spelled in English as Poona (the official name until 1978), is a city in Maharashtra state in the Deccan plateau in Western India.
Punokawan
In Javanese wayang (shadow puppets), the panakawan or panakavan (phanakavhan) are the clown servants of the hero.
Puranas
Puranas (पुराण||ancient, old (1995 Edition), Article on Puranas,, page 915) are a vast genre of Hindu literature about a wide range of topics, particularly about legends and other traditional lore. Mahabharata and Puranas are Hindu texts and Sanskrit texts.
Purochana
Purochana is a character in Hindu mythology, an architect in the kingdom of Hastinapura, and one of Duryodhana's trusted aides in the Indian epic Mahabharata.
Puruṣārtha
Purushartha (Sanskrit: पुरुषार्थ, IAST) literally means "object(ive) of men".
See Mahabharata and Puruṣārtha
Pururavas
Pururavas (Sanskrit: पुरूरवस्, Purūravas) is a character in Hindu literature, a king who served as the first of the Lunar dynasty.
Purushottama Lal
Purushottama Lal (28 August 1929 – 3 November 2010), commonly known as P. Lal, was an Indian poet, author, translator, professor and publisher.
See Mahabharata and Purushottama Lal
R. K. Narayan
Rasipuram Krishnaswami Iyer Narayanaswami (10 October 1906 – 13 May 2001), better known as R. K. Narayan, was an Indian writer and novelist known for his work set in the fictional South Indian town of Malgudi.
See Mahabharata and R. K. Narayan
Raajneeti
Raajneeti is a 2010 Indian Hindi-language political thriller film co-written, directed and produced by Prakash Jha, with a screenplay by Anjum Rajabali and Prakash Jha.
Rajatarangini
Rājataraṅgiṇī (Sanskrit: राजतरङ्गिणी, romanized: rājataraṅgiṇī, IPA: ɾɑː.d͡ʑɐ.t̪ɐˈɾɐŋ.ɡi.ɳiː, "The River of Kings") is a metrical legendary and historical chronicle of the north-western part of Indian sub-continent, particularly the kings of Kashmir.
See Mahabharata and Rajatarangini
Rajkumar Santoshi
Rajkumar Santoshi is an Indian film director, producer and screenwriter of Hindi films.
See Mahabharata and Rajkumar Santoshi
Ramayana
The Ramayana (translit-std), also known as Valmiki Ramayana, as traditionally attributed to Valmiki, is a smriti text (also described as a Sanskrit epic) from ancient India, one of the two important epics of Hinduism known as the Itihasas, the other being the Mahabharata. Mahabharata and Ramayana are epic poems in Sanskrit, Hindu poetry and Hindu texts.
Ramdhari Singh Dinkar
Ramdhari Singh (23 September 1908 – 24 April 1974), known by his pen name Dinkar, was an Indian Hindi language poet, essayist, freedom fighter, patriot and academic.
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Ramesh Menon (writer)
Ramakrishna Ramesh Menon (born 20 September 1951) is an Indian author of several literary renderings in modern English prose of classical works from the ancient Hindu tradition.
See Mahabharata and Ramesh Menon (writer)
Ramopakhyana
Rāmopākhyāna is a section of the Indian epic Mahabharata, telling the story of Rama and Sita, a tale best known from the other great Sanskrit epic, the Ramayana.
See Mahabharata and Ramopakhyana
Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary
Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary is a large American dictionary, first published in 1966 as The Random House Dictionary of the English Language: The Unabridged Edition.
See Mahabharata and Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary
Rashmirathi
Rashmirathi (Rashmi: Ray of light Rathi: One who rides a chariot (not the charioteer) Rashmirathi: Rider of the chariot of light) is a Hindi epic written in 1952, by the Hindi poet Ramdhari Singh 'Dinkar'.
See Mahabharata and Rashmirathi
Ravi Chopra
Ravi Chopra (27 September 1946 – 12 November 2014) was an Indian filmmaker, best known for directing the television show Mahabharat (1988–1990).
See Mahabharata and Ravi Chopra
Razmnama
The Razmnāma (Book of War) (رزمنامہ) is a Persian translation of the Sanskrit epic Mahabharata, commissioned by the Mughal Emperor Akbar.
Redaction
Redaction or sanitization is the process of removing sensitive information from a document so that it may be distributed to a broader audience.
Rigveda
The Rigveda or Rig Veda (ऋग्वेद,, from ऋच्, "praise" and वेद, "knowledge") is an ancient Indian collection of Vedic Sanskrit hymns (sūktas). Mahabharata and Rigveda are Hindu texts.
Rishi
In Indian religions, a rishi is an accomplished and enlightened person.
Rishyasringa
Rishyasringa (ऋष्यशृङ्ग;; Pali: Isisiṅga) is a rishi mentioned in Hindu and Buddhist scriptures from the late first millennium BCE.
See Mahabharata and Rishyasringa
Romesh Chunder Dutt
Romesh Chunder Dutt (রমেশচন্দ্র দত্ত; 13 August 1848 – 30 November 1909) was an Indian civil servant, economic historian, translator of Ramayana and Mahabharata.
See Mahabharata and Romesh Chunder Dutt
Sabha Parva
Sabha Parva, also called the "Book of the Assembly Hall", is the second of eighteen books of Mahabharata.
See Mahabharata and Sabha Parva
Sahadeva
Sahadeva (one with the gods) was the youngest of the five Pandava brothers in the ancient Indian epic, the Mahabharata.
Sanskrit
Sanskrit (attributively संस्कृत-,; nominally संस्कृतम्) is a classical language belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages.
Sanskrit literature
Sanskrit literature broadly comprises all literature in the Sanskrit language.
See Mahabharata and Sanskrit literature
Sarathi (name of Krishna)
Sarathi (also anglicised as Sarathy) is an epithet of the Hindu deity Krishna used in the epic Mahabharata.
See Mahabharata and Sarathi (name of Krishna)
Satna
Satna is a city in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.
Satyajit Ray
Satyajit Ray (2 May 1921 – 23 April 1992) was an Indian director, screenwriter, documentary filmmaker, author, essayist, lyricist, magazine editor, illustrator, calligrapher, and composer.
See Mahabharata and Satyajit Ray
Satyaki
Yuyudhana (युयुधान), better known as Satyaki (सात्यकि), was a powerful Yadava chieftain of Narayani Sena, belonging to the Vrishni clan to which Krishna also belonged.
Satyavati
Satyavati (सत्यवती,; also spelled Satyawati) was the queen of the Kuru Kingdom.
Sauptika Parva
The Sauptika Parva (सौप्तिक पर्व), or the "Book of the Sleepers," is the tenth of eighteen books of the Indian Epic Mahabharata.
See Mahabharata and Sauptika Parva
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.
See Mahabharata and Sauvira Kingdom
Savitri and Satyavan
Savitri (सावित्री) and Satyavan are a legendary couple in Hinduism.
See Mahabharata and Savitri and Satyavan
Semar
Semar is a character in Javanese mythology who frequently appears in wayang shadow plays.
Shaka era
The Shaka era (IAST: Śaka, Śāka) is a historical Hindu calendar era (year numbering), the epoch (its year zero) of which corresponds to Julian year 78.
Shakuni
Shakuni (शकुनि) is one of the antagonists of the Hindu epic Mahabharata.
Shakuntala
Shakuntala (Sanskrit: Śakuntalā) is the wife of Dushyanta and the mother of Emperor Bharata.
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Shakuntala (play)
Abhijñānaśākuntalam (Devanagari: अभिज्ञानशाकुन्तलम्, IAST: Abhijñānaśākuntalam), also known as Shakuntala, The Recognition of Shakuntala, The Sign of Shakuntala, and many other variants, is a Sanskrit play by the ancient Indian poet Kālidāsa, dramatizing the story of Śakuntalā told in the epic Mahābhārata and regarded as the best of Kālidāsa's works.
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Shalya
In the Hindu epic Mahabharata, King Shalya (शल्य, lit. Pike) was the brother of Madri (mother of Nakula and Sahadeva), and the ruler of the Madra kingdom.
Shalya Parva
The Shalya Parva (शल्य पर्व), or the Book of Shalya, is the ninth of eighteen books of the Indian epic Mahabharata.
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Shantanu
Shantanu (शांतनु, शान्तनु) was the King of Kuru Kingdom with his capital at Hastinapura, in the epic Mahabharata.
Shanti Parva
The Shanti Parva (शान्ति पर्व; IAST: Śānti parva; "Book of Peace") is the twelfth of eighteen books of the Indian Epic Mahabharata.
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Sharon Maas
Sharon Maas (born 1951) is a Guyanese-born novelist, who was educated in England, lived in India, and subsequently in Germany and in Sussex, United Kingdom.
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Shikhandi
Shikhandi (translit) is a character in the Hindu epic Mahabharata.
Shloka
Shloka or śloka (श्लोक, from the root श्रु, Macdonell, Arthur A., A Sanskrit Grammar for Students, Appendix II, p. 232 (Oxford University Press, 3rd edition, 1927). in a broader sense, according to Monier-Williams's dictionary, is "any verse or stanza; a proverb, saying"; but in particular it refers to the 32-syllable verse, derived from the Vedic anuṣṭubh metre, used in the Bhagavad Gita and many other works of classical Sanskrit literature. Mahabharata and Shloka are Hindu texts.
Shripad Damodar Satwalekar
Shripad Damodar Satwalekar (19 September 1867 – 31 July 1968) was a polymath with interests in painting, social health, Ayurveda, Yoga, and Vedic literature.
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Shyam Benegal
Shyam Benegal (born 14 December 1934) is an Indian film director, screenwriter and documentary filmmaker.
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Silk Road
The Silk Road was a network of Eurasian trade routes active from the second century BCE until the mid-15th century.
Smriti
Smriti Literature in Hinduism (स्मृति, IAST) The smṛti texts are a body of Hindu texts usually attributed to an author, traditionally written down, in contrast to Śrutis (the Vedic literature) considered authorless, that were transmitted verbally across the generations and fixed. Mahabharata and Smriti are Hindu texts.
Spitzer Manuscript
The Spitzer Manuscript is the oldest surviving philosophical manuscript in Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit, and possibly the oldest Sanskrit manuscript of any type related to Buddhism.
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Story within a story
A story within a story, also referred to as an embedded narrative, is a literary device in which a character within a story becomes the narrator of a second story (within the first one).
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Stri Parva
The Stri Parva (स्त्री पर्व), or the "Book of the Women," is the eleventh of eighteen books of the Indian epic Mahabharata.
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Subhadra
Subhadra (सुभद्रा) is a princess of Dvārakā mentioned in the Hindu epic Mahabharata.
Subhas Chandra Bose
Subhas Chandra Bose (23 January 1897 – 18 August 1945) was an Indian nationalist whose defiance of British authority in India made him a hero among many Indians, but his wartime alliances with Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan left a legacy vexed by authoritarianism, anti-Semitism, and military failure.
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Suman Pokhrel
Suman Pokhrel (सुमन पोखरेल; born 21 September 1967) is a Nepali poet, lyricist, playwright, translator and artist.
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Suparṇākhyāna
The Suparṇākhyāna, also known as the Suparṇādhyāya (meaning "Chapter of the Bird"), is a short epic poem or cycle of ballads in Sanskrit about the divine bird Garuda, believed to date from the late Vedic period. Mahabharata and Suparṇākhyāna are epic poems in Sanskrit.
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Sutra
Sutra (translation)Monier Williams, Sanskrit English Dictionary, Oxford University Press, Entry for, page 1241 in Indian literary traditions refers to an aphorism or a collection of aphorisms in the form of a manual or, more broadly, a condensed manual or text.
Svarga
Svarga (lit), also known as Indraloka and Svargaloka, is the celestial abode of the devas in Hinduism.
Svargarohana Parva
Svargarohana Parva (स्वर्गारोहण पर्व.) or the Book of the Ascent to Heaven, is the last of eighteen books of the Indian epic Mahabharata.
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Svayamvara
Svayamvara (translit-std) is a type of marriage mentioned in Hindu mythology where a woman chose a man as her husband from a group of suitors.
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Swami Vivekananda
Swami Vivekananda (IAST: Svāmī Vivekānanda; 12 January 1863 – 4 July 1902), born Narendranath Datta, was an Indian Hindu monk, philosopher, author, religious teacher, and the chief disciple of the Indian mystic Ramakrishna.
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Sylhet
Sylhet (Bengali: সিলেট), is a metropolitan city located in the northeastern region of Bangladesh.
Takshaka
Takshaka (तक्षक) is a Nagaraja in Hinduism and Buddhism.
Tamil culture
Tamil culture denotes the diverse culture of the Tamil people.
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Taxila
Taxila or Takshashila (Takṣaśilā; Takkasilā) is a city in the Pothohar region of Punjab, Pakistan.
Terukkuttu
Terukkuttu is a Tamil street theatre form practised in Tamil Nadu state of India and Tamil-speaking regions of Sri Lanka.
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Textual criticism
Textual criticism is a branch of textual scholarship, philology, and literary criticism that is concerned with the identification of textual variants, or different versions, of either manuscripts (mss) or of printed books.
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Thames & Hudson
Thames & Hudson (sometimes T&H for brevity) is a publisher of illustrated books in all visually creative categories: art, architecture, design, photography, fashion, film, and the performing arts.
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The Mahabharata (1989 film)
The Mahabharata is a 1989 film version of the Hindu epic Mahabharata directed by Peter Brook.
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The Palace of Illusions
The Palace of Illusions: A Novel is a 2008 novel by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, published by Doubleday.
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Tirthankara
In Jainism, a Tirthankara is a saviour and supreme spiritual teacher of the dharma (righteous path).
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Trilinga Kshetras
The land of the Telugu people was referred to, during ancient times, as Āndhra dēśa (country of Andhra) and Trilingadēśa (country of Trilinga).
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Udyoga Parva
The Udyoga Parva (उद्योग पर्वः), or the Book of Effort, is the fifth of eighteen books of the Indian epic Mahābhārata.
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Ugrashravas
Ugrashravas Sauti (Sanskrit: उग्रश्रवस् सौती, also Ugraśravas, Sauti, Sūta, Śri Sūta, Suta Gosvāmī) is a character in Hindu literature, featured as the narrator of the Mahābhārata and several Puranas including the Shiva Purana, Bhagavata Purana, Harivamsa, Brahmavaivarta Purana, and Padma Purana, with the narrations typically taking place before the sages gathered in Naimisha Forest.
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University of Chicago
The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, U of C, or UChi) is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois.
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University of Chicago Press
The University of Chicago Press is the university press of the University of Chicago, a private research university in Chicago, Illinois.
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Urubhanga
Urubhanga or Urubhangam, (italic) is a Sanskrit play written by Bhasa in the 2nd or 3rd century CE.
Urvashi
Urvashi (उर्वशी) is the most prominent apsara mentioned in the Hindu scriptures like the Vedas, the epics Ramayana and Mahabharata, as well as the Puranas.
Uttarakhand
Uttarakhand, formerly known as Uttaranchal (the official name until 2007), is a state in northern India.
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Vaisampayana
Vaishampayana (वैशंपायन) is the traditional narrator of the Mahabharata, one of the two major Sanskrit epics of India.
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Vana Parva
The Vana Parva, also known as the "Book of the Forest", is the third of eighteen parvas in the Indian epic Mahabharata.
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Varanasi
Varanasi (ISO:,; also Benares, Banaras or Kashi) is a city on the Ganges river in northern India that has a central place in the traditions of pilgrimage, death, and mourning in the Hindu world.
Varāhamihira
Varāhamihira (6th century CE, possibly 505 – 587), also called Varāha or Mihira, was an astrologer-astronomer who lived in or around Ujjain in present-day Madhya Pradesh, India.
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Vayu
Vayu (वायु), also known as Vata and Pavana, is the Hindu god of the winds as well as the divine messenger of the gods.
Vedanta
Vedanta (वेदान्त), also known as Uttara Mīmāṃsā, is one of the six orthodox (''āstika'') traditions of textual exegesis and Hindu philosophy.
Vedas
The Vedas are ancient Sanskrit texts of Hinduism. Above: A page from the ''Atharvaveda''. The Vedas are a large body of religious texts originating in ancient India. Mahabharata and Vedas are Hindu poetry, Hindu texts and Sanskrit texts.
Vedic accent
The pitch accent of Vedic Sanskrit, or Vedic accent (Vedic: स्वराः svarāḥ) for brevity, is traditionally divided by Sanskrit grammarians into three qualities, udātta उदात्त "raised" (acute accent, high pitch), anudātta अनुदात्त "not raised" (unstressed, or low pitch, grave accent) and svarita स्वरित "sounded" (high falling pitch, corresponds to the Greek circumflex accent).
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Vedic period
The Vedic period, or the Vedic age, is the period in the late Bronze Age and early Iron Age of the history of India when the Vedic literature, including the Vedas (–900 BCE), was composed in the northern Indian subcontinent, between the end of the urban Indus Valley Civilisation and a second urbanisation, which began in the central Indo-Gangetic Plain BCE.
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Vedic Sanskrit
Vedic Sanskrit, also simply referred as the Vedic language, is an ancient language of the Indo-Aryan subgroup of the Indo-European language family.
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Vichitravirya
Vichitravirya (lit) is a figure in the Mahabharata, where he is featured as a Kuru king.
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Victorian literature
Victorian literature is English literature during the reign of Queen Victoria (1837–1901).
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Vidura
Vidura, also known as Kshatri, plays a key role in the Hindu epic Mahabharata.
Vikarna
In the Hindu epic Mahabharata, Vikarna (विकर्ण) was the third Kaurava, a son of Dhritarashtra and Gandhari, and a brother to the crown prince Duryodhana.
Virata
Virata (विराट, IAST virāṭa) was the king of the Matsya Kingdom, in whose court the Pandavas spent a year in concealment during their exile.
Virata Parva
Virata Parva, also known as the “Book of Virata”, is the fourth of eighteen books of the Indian epic Mahabharata.
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Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar
Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar (11 January 1898 – 2 September 1976) was a Marathi writer from Maharashtra, India.
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Vrddha Garga
Garga, also known as Vṛddha Garga ("Garga the Elder"), was an ancient Indian scholar of jyotisha.
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Vulgate
The Vulgate is a late-4th-century Latin translation of the Bible.
Vyasa
Krishna Dvaipayana (कृष्णद्वैपायन), better known as Vyasadeva(lit) or Veda Vyasa (lit), is a revered ''rishi'' (sage) portrayed in most Hindu traditions.
War of succession
A war of succession is a war prompted by a succession crisis in which two or more individuals claim the right of successor to a deceased or deposed monarch.
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Wayang
(translit) is a traditional form of puppet theatre play originating from the Indonesian island of Java.
Wayang wong
Wayang wong, also known as wayang orang (literally "human wayang"), is a type of classical Javanese and Balinese dance theatrical performance with themes taken from episodes of the Ramayāna or Mahabharāta.
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Western world
The Western world, also known as the West, primarily refers to various nations and states in the regions of Australasia, Western Europe, and Northern America; with some debate as to whether those in Eastern Europe and Latin America also constitute the West.
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William Buck (translator)
William Benson Buck (April 20, 1934 – August 26, 1970) was an American writer who produced novelized translations of the Sanskrit epic poems Mahabharata and Ramayana in English.
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Writers Workshop (publisher)
Writers Workshop is a Kolkata-based literary publisher founded by the Indian poet and scholar Purushottama Lal in 1958.
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Yajnaseni (novel)
Yajnaseni: the story of Draupadi is a 1984 Odia language novel by Pratibha Ray.
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Yajnaseni (play)
Yajnaseni (ne:याज्ञसेनी; is a play in Nepali by Suman Pokhrel. The play is based on the Sanskrit epic The Mahabharata and Odia novel Yajnaseni by Pratibha Ray. This play has been staged in Nepal, India and United States. Suman Pokhrel rendered the story into a solo play in Nepali by bringing the character Yajnaseni alone in the scenes.
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Yayati
Yayati (translit) is an Abhira king in Hindu tradition.
Yoga
Yoga (lit) is a group of physical, mental, and spiritual practices or disciplines which originated in ancient India and aim to control (yoke) and still the mind, recognizing a detached witness-consciousness untouched by the mind (Chitta) and mundane suffering (Duḥkha).
Yudhishthira
Yudhishthira (Sanskrit: युधिष्ठिर, IAST: Yudhiṣṭhira) also known as Dharmaraja, was the king of Indraprastha and later the King of Kuru Kingdom in the epic Mahabharata.
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Yuyutsu
Yuyutsu in the Hindu epic Mahabharata was a son of Dhritarashtra with sugadha in later retelling). He was the paternal half - sibling to Gandhari's children: Duryodhana and the rest of the 99 Kaurava brothers and their sister, Dushala. He was only son of Dhritarashtra to fight for Pandavas.
Zee TV
Zee TV is an Indian Hindi language general entertainment pay television channel owned by Zee Entertainment Enterprises.
See also
3rd-century BC poems
- Aetia (Callimachus)
- Argonautica
- Hecale (poem)
- Idyll I
- Idyll II
- Idyll III
- Idyll IV
- Idyll IX
- Idyll V
- Idyll VI
- Idyll VII
- Idyll VIII
- Idyll X
- Idyll XI
- Idyll XII
- Idyll XIII
- Idyll XIV
- Idyll XIX
- Idyll XV
- Idyll XVI
- Idyll XVII
- Idyll XVIII
- Idyll XX
- Idyll XXI
- Idyll XXII
- Idyll XXIII
- Idyll XXIV
- Idyll XXV
- Idyll XXVI
- Idyll XXVII
- Mahabharata
- Pinakes
Epic poems in Sanskrit
- Adbhuta Ramayana
- Bhaṭṭikāvya
- Buddhacharita
- Gita milindam
- Gitaramayanam
- Hammira Mahakavya
- Keralodayam Mahakavyam
- Kirātārjunīya
- Kristubhagavatam
- Kumārasambhava
- Mahabharata
- Mahakavya
- Mushika-vamsha
- Naishadha Charita
- Nava-sahasanka-charita
- Parishishtaparvan
- Prithviraja Vijaya
- Raghuvaṃśa
- Ramayana
- Rukminisha Vijaya
- Shishupala Vadha
- Shribhargavaraghaviyam
- Shringara-Prakasha
- Suparṇākhyāna
- Versions of the Ramayana
- Vina-Vasavadatta
- Yadavabhyudaya
- Ādi purāṇa
Hindu poetry
- Abhang
- Achyuta Shataka
- Annada Mangal
- Ashtavakra
- Atmopadesa Śatakam
- Bilanka Ramayana
- Gopalavimshati
- I Would Know You Anywhere
- Jungle Nama
- Kumārasambhava
- Mahabharata
- Meghadūta
- Ovi (poetry)
- Paduka Sahasra
- Pinjada Ko Suga
- Raghuvira Gadyam
- Ramayana
- Songs of realization
- Uttararamacarita
- Vedas
- Yadavabhyudaya
Kurukshetra
- 48 kos parikrama
- 48 kos parikrama of Kurukshetra
- Bhagavad Gita
- Brahma Sarovar
- Dharohar Museum
- Govt. Polytechnic, Umri
- Jyotisar
- Kartikeya Temple, Pehowa
- Kurukshetra
- Kurukshetra Panorama and Science Centre
- Kurukshetra University
- Kurukshetra War
- Mahabharata
- National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra
- Salva (India)
- Sannihit Sarovar
- Shrikrishna Museum
- Sthaneshwar Mahadev Temple
- The Song Celestial
- University Institute of Engineering and Technology, Kurukshetra University
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