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1. The Kurukshetra war was probably the bloodiest war in history as most of the warriors and soldiers perished during the brief period of only eighteen days. (Web site)
2. The Kurukshetra War is believed to date variously from 5561 BC to 800 BC, based on the astronomical and literary information from Mahābhārata. (Web site)
3. The Kurukshetra war was perhaps one of the most important battles fought in ancient India and forms an essential component of the Hindu epic Mahabharata. (Web site)
4. The Kurukshetra war is about to begin and Arjuna stands to fight and kill his teachers, family and friends. (Web site)
5. In Kurukshetra War, the Kekaya brothers fought against their own kinsmen, viz the other Kekaya brothers who sided with Duryodhana. (Web site)

Military Campaign

1. He was defeated in battle by Arjuna during his military campaign, after the Kurukshetra War. (Web site)

Trigarta Kings

1. Trigarta kings fought the Kurukshetra War and were killed by Arjuna,after giving him very big and tough fight. (Web site)

Salwa King

1. A Salwa king has sided with Pandavas too in the Kurukshetra War. (Web site)

Arjuna Set

1. After the Kurukshetra War, Arjuna set for yet another expedition, for collecting tribute for king Yudhisthira 's Ashwamedha sacrifice (MBh 14.82 to 14.87).

Bhagavat Gita

1. He was the author of Bhagavat Gita, the charioteer of Arjuna, during the Kurukshetra War, a great political leader, with divine and ascetic dimensions.

Supporting

1. By supporting the Pandavas in Kurukshetra War they might have sought to regain their lost Panchala territories.

Field

1. Lord Krishna shows his Vishwarupa to Arjuna on the Kurukshetra war field. (Web site)

Theories

1. According to these theories, the Kurukshetra War took place around 3100 BCE.

Armies

1. All the allies of Pandavas brought their armies to this city, before the Kurukshetra War. (Web site)

Army

1. Dhristaketu was an army-general in the army of Pandavas in Kurukshetra War. (Web site)

Father

1. Rumours about his death in the Kurukshetra war led to the death of his father at the hands of Prince Dhrishtadyumna. (Web site)

Acirc

1. He spoke the Bhagavad Gîtâ to Arjuna at the beginning of the Kurukshetra war.

Sons

1. Virata, with his brothers like Satanika and sons like Sankha, Sweta, Uttara and Vabhru (5,57) battled in the Kurukshetra War on the side of the Pandavas. (Web site)

Puranas

1. The king lists given by the Puranas say that 1500 years elapsed from the time of the Kurukshetra war to the beginning of the Nanda dynasty's rule. (Web site)

Dhritarashtra

1. Dhritarashtra was half-brother of Pandu, and was uncle to the five Pandavas, with whom his sons fought the Kurukshetra War. (Web site)

Draupadi

1. Even Draupadi and many others felt that Kurukshetra war happened because of cheerharan to punish Duryodhan and Dushashan and their allies.

Elite Group

1. Prabhadrakas seems to be an elite group of Panchala army, employed in Kurukshetra War.

Goddess Durga

1. Following a short tapasya (worship), Goddess Durga appears before Arjuna and blesses him and tells him that he would be safe in the Kurukshetra war. (Web site)

Battle

1. There was no battle after the Kurukshetra war, the Pandavas ruled the country in peace.

Rakshasas

1. He became a leader of the Rakshasas and assisted the Pândavas in the Kurukshetra war. (Web site)

Kings

1. Many kings and soldiers died in the course of the Kurukshetra war.

Ten Kings

1. The history of the Kurukshetra War is also traced to the Battle of the Ten Kings mentioned in Rigveda.

Fourteenth Day

1. Fourteenth Day of the Kurukshetra war saw some of the bloodiest glimpses of fight as well as the derring-do deeds of the Kamboja army.

Epic Mahabharata

1. The throne of this city was the prize over which the Kurukshetra War of the epic Mahabharata was fought.

Vasudeva Krishna

1. He was a great friend of Vasudeva Krishna, to whom he expounded the famous philosophy known as the Bhagavat Gita, during the Kurukshetra War.

Hindu Epic Mahabharata

1. The Kurukshetra War (Devangari: कुरुक्षेत्र युद्ध) forms an essential component of the Hindu epic Mahabharata. (Web site)

Part

1. Apart from them we find mention of Bahlika army along with the armies of other neighbouring kingdoms taking part in the Kurukshetra War. (Web site)

Akshouhini

1. He came to the Kurukshetra War leading the one Akshouhini of Panchala army.

Dharmaraja

1. He was the principal protagonist of the Kurukshetra War, and for his unblemished piety, known as Dharmaraja (Most pious one).

Pandava Side

1. He was the leader of the Pandava side in the Kurukshetra War. (Web site)
2. Uttamaujas was a Panchala prince, a great warrior, who fought on the Pandava side in the great Kurukshetra war. (Web site)

Sudakshina

1. After Sudakshina fell in battlefield on 14th day of Kurukshetra war, the supreme command of Kamboja division went to this younger brother of Sudakshina.
2. As a General, Sudakshina had displayed great leadership, skill, courage and manoeuvrability in the Kurukshetra war field.

Bhima

1. In the Kurukshetra War, Bhima kills Dushasana, tears his chest and drinks his blood, as pledged and helps Draupadi redeem her vow while redeeming his own. (Web site)
2. Another king Oghavat is mentioned as an ally of Salwa king who took part in Kurukshetra War and slain by Bhima (8,5). (Web site)

War

1. This war took place before the Kurukshetra War, when Bhima lead a military campaign to collect tribute for Yudhisthira 's Rajasuya sacrifice.
2. Yudhishthira and his followers, with Matsya king Virata, began to make preparations for war (Kurukshetra War).
3. Course of war The Kurukshetra war lasted eighteen days.

Bhagavad Gita

1. The Kurukshetra war and the Bhagavad Gita Krishna reveals his Vishvarupa form to Arjuna during their discourse of the Bhagavad Gita. (Web site)
2. The first stanza of the Bhagavad Gita is a question from Dhritarashtra to Sanjaya asking him to recount the Kurukshetra war. (Web site)

Nakula

1. Nakula was one of the Pandava -generals in Kurukshetra War, under the generalissimo Dhristadyumna.

Sahadeva

1. Sahadeva was one of the Pandava -generals in Kurukshetra War, under the generalissimo Dhristadyumna.

Drupada

1. The 10 sons of Drupada were mentioned at (5,57) and his five sons were mentioned at (8,85) as participating in the Kurukshetra War.
2. Drupada, in his list of kings to be summoned to aid Pandavas in Kurukshetra War mentioned about a Janamejaya.

Panchalas

1. Panchalas were the closest among all the allies of the Pandavas in the Kurukshetra War.

Drona

1. Shatrunjaya and Dvipata died in the Kurukshetra war at the hands of Arjuna during the days when Drona commanded the Kaurava forces. (Web site)
2. Drona is one of the most powerful and destructive warriors in the Kurukshetra War. (Web site)

Jayadratha

1. This skill proved to be instrumental in the slaying of Jayadratha during the Kurukshetra war. (Web site)
2. Jayadratha was slain by Arjuna in the Kurukshetra War.

Bhishma

1. This make Bahlika older than Bhishma, making him the oldest among, the warriors who fought the Kurukshetra War.

Satyaki

1. In the Kurukshetra war, Satyaki and Kritavarma were two important Yadava heroes who fought on the opposing sides. (Web site)

Enmity

1. The Yadava chiefs fought the Kurukshetra War, on both sides, and even after the war ended, the enmity among the Yadava leaders continued.
2. From childhood he formed an enmity with the Pândavas, which later resulted in the Kurukshetra war.

Gita

1. He was also sensitive and thoughtful, as demonstrated by his misgivings about the Kurukshetra war, which caused Sri Krishna to impart the Gita to him.

Krishna

1. And that, incidentally, was how Krishna ended up as Arjuna's charioteer in the great Kurukshetra war. (Web site)
2. The following was what Krishna told to Arjuna when later told to repeat what he discoursed as Bhagavat Gita, in the midst of the Kurukshetra War. (Web site)
3. He was the brother of Krishna, the great political leader during the period of Kurukshetra War.

Mahabharata

1. Thus these references are found in Mahabharata and Puranas, while they mention historical events like the Kurukshetra War.
2. But there is references in Mahabharata that Bhishma was the oldest warrior in the Kurukshetra War.
3. When the Kurukshetra war comes to an end, it becomes clear that the theme of the Mahabharata is not war but peace.

Categories

1. Kaurava Army
2. Pandavas
3. Arjuna
4. Kurus
5. Kurukshetra

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