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  Pandava - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In the Mahabharata, the Pandava are the five acknowledged sons of Pandu, by his two wives Kunti and Madri.
As Pandu is cursed with death if he ever has intercourse with his wives, the actual fatherhood of the children is traditionally attributed to various gods, by the boon that was given to Kunti by Durvasa.
The Pandavas engaged in the Mahabharata war with their one hundred cousins, the Kauravas.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pandava   (222 words)

  
 Pandava Sena - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Pandava Sena started in January 1994 with a campaign to save Bhaktivedanta Manor (the Hare Krishna temple in Watford, UK).
Pandava Sena entered the battle near its climax.
The Pandava Sena began organising and creating festivals, retreats, music, dramas, discussions, presentations, debates etc to carry a simple and relevant message to the youth.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pandava_Sena   (484 words)

  
 Twilight of the Gods Game Synopsis (Scenario 14)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Pandava explains that this strobe matches the weak EMP pulses that still affect the area (although he states it more as a theory than as a fact).
Pandava (bandaged, an arm in a sling) and Dr. Venturi walk out of the lab as Virtue walks away; Dr. Venturi’s eyes are red and his face puffy from crying.
Pandava and Dr. Venturi agree that the orb represents a potential proof of the theory that the giant crabs and the green armored form—both associated with the orb—are alien in nature, since the orb is almost certainly extraterrestrial in nature.
home.comcast.net /~pradams6/PS_Twilight_Scenario014.htm   (4156 words)

  
 Yada Kadachit - Marathi Play@GLAMSHAM.com
Pandava's were honest and turely gentlemen where as Kaurava's of cruel nature, devil hearted.
But now in the modern era; the faith of Pandava's in the truthfulness and honesty has been diminished on the other hand the Kaurava's are sick of their reputation of dishonesty and disgrace which they had earlier faced in the purana's.
Kaurava's and Pandava's are already present for Drupati's Swayamvara and to their surprise Ravana from Ramayana participate in the Swayamvara anticipating it as "Sita's Swayamvara" of Ramayana.
www.glamsham.com /yadakadachit/syno.htm   (640 words)

  
 Glossary
Arjuna: one of the five Pandava brothers; he was the third son of Kunti, born mystically through union with the god Indra.
Bhima: one of the five Pandava brothers; he was the second son of Kunti, born mystically through union with the god Vayu (air).
Pandavas: those who remain in knowledge, consciousness, superconsciousness, and cosmic-consciousness are the Pandavas.
perso.wanadoo.fr /institut.kriya.yoga/magazine/glossary.htm   (7973 words)

  
 Pandavas - The Five Sons of Pandu - Indian Mythology   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The Pandavas are the five sons of Pandu, a king of the Kuru dynasty.
Each of the Pandavas has a divine father, as Pandu was incapable of fathering a child as a result of a curse.
The Pandavas were all married to the Panchala princess Draupadi.
members.cox.net /apamnapat/entities/Pandava.html   (151 words)

  
 Mahabharata - Free Encyclopedia of Thelema
Shalya who fought on the side of Kauravas against Pandavas was the 50th Generation descending from Lava and Kusha of the Ramayana.
The two cousin branches of the family that participate in the struggle are the Kauravas, the elder branch of the family, and the Pandavas, the younger branch.
Yudishtira, the eldest Pandava, is known never to have told a single lie in his life, and was thus known as Dharmaputra.
www.egnu.org /thelema/index.php/Mahabharata   (1903 words)

  
 Bhishma and Sri Krishna
He, however, stands for the old values with their associated interpretations, which bring him closer to the Kauravas, rather than the Pandavas, even though he knows full well that righteousness is the way of life for the latter, whereas for the former things are just the opposite.
When the Pandavas were completing a year of hiding on expiry of twelve years of exile, he said to the Kauravas, who were wondering whether they were alive at all, that there must be absolute law and order, as well as peace and prosperity prevailing wherever Yudhisthira stayed.
Suspecting that the Pandavas were in king Virata's kingdom, the Kauravas sought Bhishma's assistance in provoking the king to fight by snatching his herd of cattle away.
www.infinityfoundation.com /mandala/h_es/h_es_chakr_bhishma.htm   (4347 words)

  
 Kriya Glossary
Shakti means the life of the plants which comes from the five gross elements (earth, water, light, air, and vacuum), or the five Pandavas.
Arjuna is the son of sharp intelligence because he is always seeking the truth and striving to fix his attention in the pituitary and above.
The actual meaning of Yudhamanyu is derived from yudha, which means to fight constantly and to subdue; and manyu, which means sin, evil, malice and all other evil qualities which keep human beings far from God-realization.
www.kriya.org /soulculture/kriya-glossary.htm   (8265 words)

  
 Draupadi, the Woman : Epitome of Feminity and Feminism
Pandavas in disguise of brahmins came to the Swayambhara Sabha, and Arjuna won Draupadi by piercing with arrow, the eye of a moving fish on a high pole.
Other than Pandavas, kings and princes became very angry and it is her Sakha-to-be, Krishna, who steps in to put an end to the skirmish between the furious kings and the disguised Pandavas.
The five Pandavas were regarded as handsome and gallant and they definitely would not have had a problem wedding women of high birth and beauty, yet they all chose to be the husband to the fair Draupadi.
www.dollsofindia.com /draupadi.htm   (4340 words)

  
 Pandava
Pandava is one of the topics in focus at Global Oneness.
In the allegory of the Mahabharata, she stands for the terrestrial life of the personality and, as such, she is made very little of and is allowed by Yudhistthira to be insulted and even taken into slavery during a wager at a game of dice.
Yudhishthira was the eldest of the Pandava brothers and Draupadi's chief lord.
www.experiencefestival.com /pandava   (590 words)

  
 Pandavas
Dharmaraja the eldest of the Pandavas was a sincere adherent of Sathya.
The forbearance and the great breath of vision which the Pandavas exhibited as well as the strength of character and determination which they exhibited in their conduct cannot be seen in any other citizen of this country.
Dharmaraja the eldest of the Pandava brothers ceaselessly adored Krishna while living in the forest or when he was in Duryodhana’s court witnessing the dishonoring of Draupadi or when Abhimanyu was killed in the battle, or when the infant Upa-Pandavas were killed (by Ashwatthama) In all these situations Dharmaja loved Krishna with perfect calmness.
www.spiritual-teachers.com /geetaexplanations/gita4.htm   (5519 words)

  
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CLXIX Draupadi (Krishna) and Dhrishtadyumna are born for Drupada.
CLVII Pandavas journey to romantic forest mountains to expect Arjuna.
CX Bhishma vows to be slain, or slay the Pandavas.
mars-news.de /mbh/mbh-watson.doc   (11657 words)

  
 MAHABHARATA - PANDAVA'S RETURN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
All the Pandavas and Draupadi were unable to control their tears of joy.
Now the Pandavas were eagerly awaiting their term of exile to expire.
All other sons of Draupadi who were living in Dwaraka with Krishna during the exile of the Pandavas had also become very expert in the art of war fare and in the use of weapons under Krishna’s guidance and tutorship.
www.urday.com /pandvas.htm   (1027 words)

  
 INDOlink Kidz Korner : Mahabharata - Part 9   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The Pandavas were worried about the successful ending of their thirteenth year of exile, the period which they had to pass unrecognized.
Duryodhana has mandated that if the Pandavas were recognized during the thirteenth year of their exile, they would have to remain in exile for another thirteen years.
He knew that if he could locate the Pandavas, who were men of honor, they would never go back on their words and would start their exile all over.
www.indolink.com /Kidz/Stories/mahabharat9.html   (762 words)

  
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Thereupon the illustrious and graceful son of the wind-god, the mighty Pandava, depending upon the strength of his arms, began to slay one elephant with another elephant and one lion with another lion while he despatched the others with slaps.
And on being struck by Bhima the lions and the tigers and the leopards, in fright gave loud cries and discharged urine and dung.
And with their down standing erect, the Pandavas saw that large assemblage of horses maintained by the lord of wealth and also the highsouled and graceful Kuvera himself surrounded by the Yaksha hosts.
www.gutenberg.org /files/12333/12333.txt   (20612 words)

  
 Conference/seminar report - Vol. III No. 1 April - June 1995
Richa Negi focused on the Pandava dance theatre within the context of performative text as the living tradition of Garhwal.
Songs and dances are replete with somewhat metamorphosed images of the five Pandava brothers and their consort, Draupadi.
The many meanings in these verbal expressions become manifest and known to the people themselves for whom the epic is a repository of their sacred and social history, a receptacle of their identity and cautiously bequeathed heritage.
www.ignca.nic.in /nl_00707.htm   (724 words)

  
 Bhagavad Gita   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
It is a chapter of the immense Indian epic, the Mahabharata, the saga of the war between the Pandavas and the Kauravas.
Arjuna, hero of the Pandavas, is about to confront the army of the Kauravas on the battlefield of Kuruksetra.
That proof of the date 3102 B.C. can be verified by any knowledgeable indologist in India based on the fact that this was the year when the Pandava King Yudhisthira ascended the throne and was coronated as emperor of the Earth.
www.telugutoranam.com /gita/index.php3   (1655 words)

  
 VNN World - Shrila Vyasadeva's Mahabharata
In the Virata-parvan we learn of the Pandavas' last year of exile, in which the five brothers were forced to spend their time in disguise, in the service of King Virata.
As the Mahabharata comes to its eighteenth and final book, known as the Svargarohanika-parvan, after a complex series of events, the five Pandava brothers also ascend into heaven, and the details of their ascension are beautifully elaborated upon.
But Purnaprajna does not only tell of happy events-he also describes the Pandava visit to hell, which, while disconcerting in some ways, is nonetheless part of the story, and so he dutifully reports the details to the anxious devotee reader.
www.vnn.org /world/WD9901/WD11-2827.html   (1134 words)

  
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Bheeshma arranges for the education of Kauravas and Pandavas.
Pandava and Kunti leave Ekchakra Nagari and live in the forest.
Decendants of Pandava continue to rule the Kuru region for another 1200 years.
www.geocities.com /narenp/history/history/mahabharat.htm   (2245 words)

  
 Krishna Helps Draupadi
Draupadi was married to the five Pandava brothers.
They were constantly harassed by their cousins, the Kauravas for the kingdom which rightfully belonged to the Pandavas.
To humiliate the Pandavas further, Duryodhana, one of the Kaurava brothers asked his younger brother to disrobe her in the gathering.
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 Soul Culture is an online Kriya Yoga Publication that is published quarterly
Dhrishtadyumna: a great warrior on the side of the Pandavas; the brother of Draupadi and son of Drupada, born fully grown to kill Dronacharya.
Kaurava: the evil warriors opposed to the Pandavas in battle.
Kuru: the ancestor to both the Kauravas and the Pandavas.
www.kriya.org /soulculture/good-glossary.htm   (8277 words)

  
 Part I
Hastinapur claims that the Pandavas are planning war and that they need a big army to protect themselves.
Duryodhana was in a hurry to destroy the Pandavas and he was unhappy with Bhishma’s approach.
The Pandavas had built their Palace of Illusion in a garden fed by canals from the river.
home.earthlink.net /~kamesh/Mahabharata/Part8.html   (3334 words)

  
 Mahabharat - Synopsis and Preview of Hindu Religious and Pooja Materials
The charred corpses of a woman and her five sons mistakenly give credence to the news that the Pandavas were burnt alive.
The Pandavas decided to use Shikhandi in their fight against Bheeshma and the stage is set for the fall of the grandsire from the battlefield.
Ashwathama, Kripacharya and Krit Verma arrive at the Pandava camp in the middle of the night as Dhristdyumna and Draupadi's five sons are sleeping.
www.intelindia.com /mahabharat/synopsis.htm   (6567 words)

  
 INDOlink Kidz Korner : Mahabharata - Part 11   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Drishtadyumna was chosen as the chief of the Pandava army.
The Kaurva army began to march across the Pandava army with the advance of the circular array.
He was soon located but Draupadi asked the Pandavas to release him as he was the son of their guru Drona.
www.indolink.com /Kidz/Stories/mahabharat11.html   (2673 words)

  
 The Mahabharata, Book 7: Drona Parva: Dronabhisheka Parva: Section XXIX
That hero, then, the brightness of whose face resembled the splendour of the full moon and whose eyes were like lotus-petals, whose stature was tall, and complexion like that of the lotus, thus slain, fell down on the earth.
The Pandava host then, filled with great grief, began to tremble, when the Preceptor's son thus slew Nila of blazing energy.
The great car-warriors of the Pandavas, O sire, all thought, 'Alas, how would Indra's son (Arjuna) be able to rescue us from the foe, when that mighty warrior is engaged on the southern part of the field in slaughtering the remnant of the Samsaptakas and the Narayana force?'"
www.sacred-texts.com /hin/m07/m07029.htm   (818 words)

  
 New Page 1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The two armies, the Kavravas and Pandavas were gathered for battle on the battlefield of Kurukshetra.
King Duryodhana of the Kavravas, having seen the Pandava forces in battle-array, was afraid, and approached his teacher (instead of the commander-in-chief), as a child in fright would run to its parents.
The fact that the terrific noise of the conchs resounding through heaven and earth rent the hearts of Duryodhana’s army, shows that it was superior to the Kaurava’s which was more than three times in number, as the first.
webpages.acs.ttu.edu /amane/gita.htm   (3491 words)

  
 The Mahabharata, Book 6: Bhishma Parva: Bhagavat-Gita Parva: Section CXIX
Slaughtered in battle by those high-souled warriors, the Pandava army began to reel in diverse ways, O king, like a boat on the waters tossed by the wind.
And in that battle, O king, which was destructive of great heroes, when Bhishma and Dhananjaya the son of Pandu put forth their prowess, thy sons, O monarch, beholding the grandsire exert himself vigorously, approached him, with all their troops placed ahead.
The brave Pandavas also, O king, bearing in mind the many injuries of diverse kinds inflicted upon them before by thee and thy son, O monarch, and casting off all fear, and eager to win the highest heavens, cheerfully fought with thy son and the other warriors of thy army.
www.sacred-texts.com /hin/m06/m06119.htm   (1178 words)

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