Kuru:

Kuru: the founder of the dynasty in which the Pandavas, as well as their archrivals, the sons of Dhrtarastra, took birth.

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Virata:

Virata (Viraata). King of Matsya and father-in-law of Abhimanyu (son of Arjuna). The Pandavas lived incognito in the service of Virata for a year.

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Akshaya-pathra:

Akshaya-pathra: A vessel, whose contents will remain undiminished, however much they are used up, given by Krishna to the Pandavas in exile. (BV-22)

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Asvatthama:

Asvatthama: the nefarious son of the great military teacher Dronacarya who murdered the children of the Pandavas.

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Dharmaraja:

Dharmaraja: Another name for Yudhishtira, the eldest Pandava, meaning: king of righteousness or the righteous. (BV-4)

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Dhrtarastra:

Dhrtarastra: the uncle of the Pandavas whose attempt to usurp their kingdom for the sake of his own sons resulted in the Kuruksetra war.

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Dronacarya:

Dronacarya: the military teacher of the Pandavas who was obliged to fight paganist them in the Battle of Kuruksetra.

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Mahabharata:

Mahabharata ("Great Bharata"): one of India's two great ancient epics telling of the great war between the Pandavas and the Kauravas and serving as a repository for many spiritual and moral teachings

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Mahabharata:  One of India's two great ancient epics telling of the great war between the Pandavas and the Kauravas and serving as a repository for many spiritual and moral teachings.

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Mayasabha (Sanskrit) [from maya illusion + sabha assembly]

An assemblage of illusions; one of the wonderful gifts given to the Pandavas in the Mahabharata by Mayasura.

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Pandu (Sanskrit) The pale one; a son of Vyasa by the wife of Vichitra-virya. The brother of Dhritarashtra and Vidura, and the father of the five Pandava princes of the Mahabharata.

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Kuru (Sanskrit) The ancestor of Dhritarashtra, father of the Kauravas and the brother of Pandu, the father of the Pandavas. According to modern scholars, he ruled in the northwest of India around Delhi.

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At the successful conclusion of the war, Arjuna is appointed Commander in Chief by his brother, King Yudhisthira, who conducts the Asvamedha Yagna, or horse sacrifice. Arjuna follows the sacrificial horse all throughout the country, killing the remaining unrighteous kings and establishing his peace-loving, just and gentle brother's rule over the world. In course of time, the Pandava brothers decide, at an advanced age, to renounce the world. They entrust the kingdom to Parikshita, the son of Abhimanyu and grandson of Arjuna. The Pandavas then retire to the Hi ...

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Draupadi (Sanskrit) The wife in common of the five Pandava princes and brothers. In the allegory of the Mahabharata, she stands for the terrestrial life of the personality and, as such, she is made very little of and is allowed by Yudhistthira to be insulted and even taken into slavery during a wager at a game of dice. Yudhishthira was the eldest of the Pandava brothers and Draupadi's chief lord. In this relation he represents the higher ego.

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In one segment, Krishna, the incarnation of Vishnu, tried to win Karna over to the side of the Pandavas. The discussion, which took place as the two were leaving Hastinapura after a failed peace mission, centered on the moral superiority of the Pandavas' cause. Though Krishna was aware of the kindness that Duryodhana had shown Karna, he argued that Karna had a higher duty, to follow him on the path of righteousness. When Karna suggested that such a path would be dishonorable, Krishna recounted the story of Vibheeshana, a major character in t ...

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