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Ashvamedhika Parva (Sanskrit: अश्वमेध पर्व), is the fourteenth of eighteen books of the Indian epic Mahabharata. It traditionally has 2 parts and 96 chapters. It traditionally has 2 parts and 96 chapters.
The best-known text describing the sacrifice is the Ashvamedhika Parva (Sanskrit: अश्वमेध पर्व), or the "Book of Horse Sacrifice," the fourteenth of eighteen books of the Indian epic poem Mahabharata. Krishna and Vyasa advise King Yudhishthira to perform the sacrifice, which is described at great length. The book ...
Ashvamedhika Parva, fourteenth book of the ancient Indian epic Mahabharata; Ashwamedhadatha, a king of the Kuru Kingdom in Vedic India; Ashwamedh, a Gujarati-language play by Indian writer Chinu Modi; Aswamedham, an Indian quiz television program; Aswamedham, a 1992 Indian Telugu-language action film
An illustration from the Razmnama depicting a scene of Ashramavasika Parva. Kunti leading Dhritarashtra and Gandhari as they head to Sannyasa. Ashramvasika Parva (Sanskrit: आश्रमवासिक पर्व), or the "Book of the Hermitage", is the fifteenth of the eighteen books of the Indian epic Mahabharata. It traditionally has 3 ...
Anugita is an ancient Sanskrit text embedded in the Book 14 (Ashvamedhika Parva) of the Hindu epic the Mahabharata. [1] Anugita literally means an Anu ("continuation, alongside, subordinate to") of Gita. The original was likely composed between 400 BCE and 200 CE, [1] but its versions probably modified through about the 15th- or 16th-century. [2]
The epic's Ashvamedhika Parva mentions a descendant of Shakuni who ruled Gandhara after the battle of Kurukshetra. [ 5 ] The Adi Parva of the Mahabharata says that Bhishma , then the guardian of the Kuru kingdom, went to Gandhara to arrange the marriage of its princess, Gandhari, to Dhritarashtra , the elder son of Vichitravirya, who was blind ...
Ghatotkacha (Sanskrit: घटोत्कच, IAST: Ghaṭotkaca; lit. ' Bald Pot ') is a prominent character in the ancient Indian epic Mahabharata. [1] His name comes from the fact that his head was hairless (utkacha) and shaped like a ghatam, or a pot. [2]
For instance, in Adi Parva, chapter 53, stanza 6, Jaimini is said to be present during Janamejaya's sarpasatra, the yagna (sacrificial ritual) he performed to kill all serpents out of vengeance for his father Parikshit's death. Furthermore, stanza 11 in chapter 4 of the Sabha Parva says that Jaimini was a part of Yudhishthira's council.