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The Kunti kingdom was the kingdom of Kunti-Bhoja, one of the prominent kings among the Bhoja-Yadavas. Kunti, the mother of Pandavas and the first wife of Kuru king Pandu, was the adopted daughter of Kuntibhoja. Her given name was Pritha and she was a sister of Vasudeva, the father of Vasudeva Krishna. The Kunti kingdom was neighbour to the ...
The largest and most prosperous kingdom of the Bhoja tribe was the Vidarbha Kingdom. In the Ramayana epic, the Bhoja princess of Vidarbha was married to Prince Aja of the Kosala Kingdom in a Swayamvara ceremony. [4] Aja was the son of the powerful Ikshavku king Raghu, and the father of King Dasharatha, in turn father of Lord Rama.
Kunti (Sanskrit: कुन्ती, [kun̪t̪iː], IAST: Kuntī), born Pritha (Sanskrit: पृथा, [pr̩t̪ʰaː], IAST: Pṛthā), was the queen of Kuru in the Hindu epic Mahabharata. Kunti was married to Pandu and is the mother of Karna, Yudhishthira, Bhima, and Arjuna. She is depicted to possess beauty, intelligence and shrewdness.
In Mahabharata, Kunti-Bhoja (or Kuntibhoja) was the cousin of Shurasena and adoptive father of Kunti. He was the ruler of the Kunti Kingdom. Kunti was a daughter of King Shurasena but was later given to Kuntibhoja since he was devoid of children. [52] Kuntibhoja raised her as his own daughter and loved her. [53]
Bhoja fought wars with nearly all his neighbours in attempts to extend his kingdom, with varying degrees of success. At its zenith, his empire extended from Chittor in the north to upper Konkan in the south, and from the Sabarmati River in the west to Vidisha in the east.
Since the kingdom had the blessings of Agni, a huge fire obstructed the army when Sahadeva tried to invade; later prayer to Agni enabled Sahadeva to complete the conquest. King Rukmi of Vidarbha and territories of Bhojakata; Nishadas, the hill of Gosringa and King Sreenimath. Navarashtra, under King Kunti-Bhoja
Kunti Betta (also spelled Kunthi Betta) is a set of two rocky hills [1] in Pandavapura, Mandya district, Karnataka. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The hills sit at an elevation of 878 m (2,882 ft). [ 5 ] Kunti Betta lies not far from Thonnur Lake, [ 2 ] [ 6 ] and is situated at a distance of 130 km (81 mi) from Bangalore . [ 6 ]
Bhoja dynasty also known as Bhojas of Goa, [1] [2] were a dynasty that ruled Goa, parts of Konkan, and some parts of Karnataka from at least the 3rd century AD to the 6th century. They were feudatories to the Mauryas of Konkana , and possibly to the Chalukyas of Vatapi who expelled the Mauryas. [ 3 ]