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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.
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.
The Pandu culture flourished in the present-day eastern Indian state of West Bengal, which is the western part of the historical Bengal region. [ 4 ] The culture thus spread in the lower Ganges valley, from the Bhagirathi-Hooghly River , one of the two main tributaries of the Ganges , in the east to the eastern fringes of the Chota Nagpur ...
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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.
Bhima was the second of the five Pandava brothers, the adoptive sons of retired Kuru king Pandu, and was born to Kunti with divine intervention due to Pandu's inability to conceive. According to the epic, Kunti invoked the wind god, Vayu , using a mantra provided by the sage Durvasa , resulting in Bhima's birth.
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.
Pandu was the first of the Six Dravidians. He was a Pandyan, in South India, who established foreign rule in Anuradhapura through a Pandyan invasion. He ruled from ...