84000 Glossary of Terms

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སྐྱ་བསེང་། | Glossary of Terms

  • པན་ད་པ།

  • སྐྱ་བསེང་།
  • skya bseng
  • pan da pa
  • pāṇḍava
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  • Pāṇḍava
  • སྐྱ་བསེང་།
  • skya bseng
  • pāṇḍava
Definition in this text:

Five brothers who were the sons of Pāṇḍu. The most renowned was Arjuna (of Bhagavadgīta fame); the other four were Yudhiṣṭhira, Nakula, Sahadeva, and Bhīmasena. The story of the Pāṇḍava brothers and their battle with their cousins, the Kauravas, is the subject of the Mahābhārata, India’s greatest epic. In the sūtra, Bali imprisons the Pāṇḍavas and Kauravas together.

  • Pāṇḍava
  • པན་ད་པ།
  • pan da pa
  • pāṇḍava
Definition in this text:

Five brothers who were the sons of Paṇḍu. The most famous was Arjuna (of Bhagavadgīta fame); the other four were Yudhiṣṭhira, Nakula, Sahadeva, and Bhīmasena. The story of the Pāṇḍava brothers and their battle with their cousins, the Kauravas, is the subject of the Mahābhārata, India’s greatest epic. In the sūtra, Bali imprisons the Pāṇḍavas and Kauravas together.

  • Pāṇḍava
  • སྐྱ་བསེང་།
  • skya bseng
  • pāṇḍava
Definition in this text:

One of the rival clans in the Mahābhārata.