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The Battle of Kurukshetra, fought between the Kauravas and the Pandavas, recorded in the Mahabharata.. Hindu mythological wars are the wars described in the Hindu texts of ancient India.
Bhishma ranked him a Mighty Maharathi, his son Dhrishtadyumna an Atirathi and his other son, Shikhandi, a Rathi. He contributed three (of the seven) Akshauhini armies to the Pandavas during the war. [7]
The terms Rathi, Maharathi, Rathika, Rashtriya, Rasthrapathi and Rasthtrakuta were of political and administrative significance and not used to denote any tribes or ethnicity. [24] Also, no evidence to confirm that these families were either Aryan or non-Aryan is available. [25] C. V. Vaidya claimed that Rashtrakutas were ancestors of modern ...
Maharathi may refer to: Maharathi (warrior), in Hindu mythology; Maharathi, Indian Telugu-language film; Maharathi, Indian Hindi-language film; See also ...
Even though he was a young man, he exhibited amazing bravery in the conflict. In the fifth book of the epic, Udyoga Parva, Abhimanyu was categorised as a Atirathi ('leader of leaders of car-divisions') by Bhishma, the Kuru gransire who oversaw the Kaurava side during the first eleven days of the conflict. [2] [10]
The Mahabharata is one of the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India composed by Veda Vyasa.At its heart lies the epic struggle between the Pandavas and the Kauravas.The central characters include the five Pandava brothers—Yudhishthira, Bhima, Arjuna, Nakula, and Sahadeva—along with their wife Draupadi.
He is also described as a Maharathi [1] who fought on the side of the Kauravas against the Pandavas in the Kurukshetra War, and was cursed by Krishna with immortality for his attempt to kill Uttarā's unborn child. [2] Ashwatthama had gained knowledge of various divine weapons, namely the Narayanastra, Brahmastra, Brahmashirastra, and many others.
Meghanada (Sanskrit: मेघनाद, lit. 'roar of the clouds', IAST: Meghanāda), also referred to by his epithet Indrajita (lit. ' conqueror of Indra ') [1], according to Hindu texts, was the eldest son of Ravana and the crown prince of Lanka, who conquered Indraloka ().