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Akshaya Patra. Akshaya Patra ( Sanskrit: अक्षयपात्र, romanized : Akṣayapātra, lit. 'inexhaustible vessel') is a legendary copper vessel featured in the Hindu epic Mahabharata. It is a divine vessel given to Yudhishthira by Surya, which offered a never-depleting supply of food to the Pandavas every day.
Sauptika Parva. Ashwatthama propitiates Shiva (top) before making a night attack on the sleeping Pandava camp (bottom). The Sauptika Parva ( Sanskrit: सौप्तिक पर्व ), or the "Book of the Sleepers," is the tenth of eighteen books of the Indian Epic Mahabharata. Sauptika Parva traditionally has 2 parts and 18 chapters, as ...
Pandawa. Para Pandawa dan istri mereka dalam lukisan India. Keterangan: Nakula dan Sadewa (kiri-kanan atas), Arjuna (kanan bawah), Bima (kiri bawah), Yudistira dan Dropadi (tengah). Pandawa ( Dewanagari: पाण्डव; IAST : Pāṇḍava) merupakan istilah dalam bahasa Sanskerta, yang secara harfiah berarti anak Pandu, yaitu seorang Raja ...
Hara Huna Kingdom. Hara-Huna (White Huns) was an ancient kingdom and inhabited by the Hara Hunas tribe close to the Himalayas who had limited interaction with the Indian kingdoms, thus they were identified in the epic Mahabharata . They lived in the Xinjiang province of China, east of Kashmir. However they were nomadic people who changed their ...
Andhra was a kingdom mentioned in the epics Ramayana and Mahabharata. It was a southern kingdom, currently identified as Indian state of Andhra Pradesh which got its name from. Andhra communities are also mentioned in the Vayu and Matsya Purana. In the Mahabharata the infantry of Satyaki was composed of a tribe called Andhras, known for their ...
Oct 16, 2007 · YUDHISHTHIRA. [Source: Dowson's Classical Dictionary of Hindu Mythology] The eldest of the five Pandu princes, mythologically the son of Dharma, the god of justice. With the Hindus he is the favourite one of the five brothers, and is represented as a man of calm, passionless judgement, strict veracity, unswerving rectitude, and rigid justice ...
Virata was married to Queen Sudeshna and was the father of Prince Uttara and Princess Uttarā, who married Abhimanyu, the son of Arjuna. Abhimanyu and Uttara's son Parikshit succeeded Yudhishthira on the throne of Hastinapura, after the war of Mahabharata. He is the titular character of the Virata Parva, the fourth book of the epic Mahabharata
