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Madra kingdom (IAST: Mādra; [maːd̪ɽɐ]) was a kingdom grouped among the western kingdoms in the ancient Indian epic Mahabharata. Its capital was Sagala in the Madra region. The Kuru king Pandu's (Pāṇḍu) second wife was from Madra kingdom and was called Madri (Sanskrit: माद्री; IAST: Mādrī; IPA/Sanskrit: [maːd̪ɽiː]).
In the Hindu epic Mahabharata, King Shalya (Sanskrit: शल्य, lit. Pike) [1] was the brother of Madri (mother of Nakula and Sahadeva), and the ruler of the Madra kingdom.. Skilled with the mace and a formidable warrior, he was tricked by Duryodhana to fight the war on the side of the Kaurav
The Madras were divided into Uttara-Madra ("northern Madra"), Dakṣiṇa-Madra ("southern Madra"), and Madra proper: [1] The Uttara Madrakas lived to the north of the Himavat, near the Uttara Kurus, possibly in the Kashmir Valley. The Madras proper lived in the Rachna Doab in the central Punjab, to the west of the Irāvatī river.
Sagala, Sakala (Sanskrit: साकला), or Sangala (Ancient Greek: Σάγγαλα) was a city in ancient India, [1] [2] which was the predecessor of the modern city of Sialkot that is located in what is now Pakistan's northern Punjab province.
Madri (Sanskrit: माद्री, IAST: Mādrī) is a princess from the Madra Kingdom mentioned in the Hindu epic, the Mahabharata.She became the second wife of Pandu, the king of the Kuru Kingdom, and was the mother of the twins Nakula and Sahadeva, the youngest of the five Pandava brothers who play a central role in the epic.
According to the Adi Parva of the epic, Pandu was crowned as the king of the Kuru Kingdom despite being younger than his elder brother Dhritrashtra, who was denied the throne for being blind. He married Kunti, a princess of the Yadu clan, and Madri, the princess of Madra Kingdom. Once he was hunting in a forest when he shot a copulating pair of ...
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Uttara Madra is a kingdom grouped among the western kingdoms in the epic Mahabharata. It is identified to be located to the northwest of eastern Madra with Sagala as its capital.