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Pandu (Sanskrit: पाण्डु, romanized: Pāṇḍu, lit. 'pale') was the king of Kuru kingdom, with capital at Hastinapur in the epic Mahabharata. He was the foster-father of the five Pandavas, who are the central characters of the epic. [1] Pandu was born pale, to Vichitravirya's second wife, Ambalika. Pandu married Kunti and Madri.
The two figures of the Welcome Monument are five metres from head to toe, or seven metres from the tip of the raised arm to toe. The two figures stand atop a pedestal. In total, the monument is about thirty meters above the ground. The Selamat Datang Monument symbolizes the openness of the Indonesian nation to visitors to the Asian Games IV. [4]
The Battle of Pandu, [12] also known as Operation Pandu, [note 2] was a pivotal engagement in the Indo-Pakistani war of 1947-1948. Fought in the Pandu massif along the Srinagar - Muzaffarabad road in Kashmir , the battle centered on control of the strategically important high ground.
After the event Pandu voluntarily renounced royal life as penance, leaving the Kingdom under Dhritarashtra. Kunti [5] and Madri [6] accompanied Pandu and together they lived in a forest. [7] Before her marriage, Kunti was blessed with a boon by the sage Durvasa, that she could have a son by any god whom she respects without having any marital ...
Pandu War Cemetery, also Dutch Field of Honor Pandu (Dutch: Nederlands Ereveld Pandu, Indonesian: Makam Kehormatan Belanda di Pandu), is a war cemetery in Bandung, West Java, in Indonesia. [ 1 ] The cemetery has 4,000 graves.
Nakula (Sanskrit: नकुल) was the fourth of the five Pandava brothers in the ancient Indian epic, the Mahabharata.He and his twin brother Sahadeva were the sons of Madri, one of the wives of the Pandava patriarch Pandu, and Ashvini Kumaras, the divine twin physicians of the gods, whom she invoked to beget her sons due to Pandu's inability to progenate.
Pandu port acts as a natural river harbour. It falls under Dhubri-Sadiya National Waterway-2 and is an important terminal cum transit point for goods and cargo as well as passenger and tourist vessels. Construction of both low-level and high-level jetty of fixed terminal, capable of handling container vessels, has been completed and has further ...
The Girl Guides Association of Brunei Darussalam was established on 1 January 1951 [4] in Kuala Belait by R. C. Bell, the wife of the British Resident at the time, and officially registered in Brunei Town (now Bandar Seri Begawan) in 1953.