Kuru was a Vedic Indo-Aryan tribal union in northern Iron Age India of the Bharatas and other Puru clans. The Kuru kingdom appeared in the Middle Vedic...

Kuru (mythology), part of Meitei mythology Kuru Kingdom, a powerful Indo-Aryan tribe and kingdom during the Vedic period (Early Iron Age) King Kuru (Vedic...

Kingdom was the kingdom of Kunti-Bhoja, one of the prominent kings among the Bhoja-Yadavas. Kunti, the mother of Pandavas and the first wife of Kuru king...

Bhima, Arjuna and Krishna from Kuru Kingdom to Magadha Kingdom was through this Eastern Kosala. This was, probably the kingdom ruled by Lava with Sravasti...

Ashwamedhadatha was a King of Kuru Kingdom who reigned during the Middle Vedic period. He is also grandson of King Janamejaya( through his son Shatanika)...

of the most powerful states of ancient India, closely allied with the Kuru Kingdom. By the c. 5th century BCE, it had become an oligarchic confederacy,...

mythology as well as Jain cosmology. The Uttarakuru country or Uttara Kuru Kingdom and its people are sometimes described as belonging to the real world...

YAUDHEYA TRIGARTA ŚĀKYA KURU PAÑCĀLA KOSALA VATSA MALLA VṚJI ŚŪRASENA KĀŚĪ BĀHLIKA KAMBOJA GANDHĀRA MATSYA AṄGA MAGADHA Kekeya Kingdom (also known as Kekaya...

mythology. According to the epic Mahabharata, he was a council member of Kuru Kingdom and a teacher of the Pandava and Kaurava princes. Born to warrior-sage...

basis of the influential Brahmanical ideology, which developed in the Kuru Kingdom, a tribal union of several Indo-Aryan tribes. The Vedas contain details...

Kuru kingdom. Bhishma was the stepbrother of Vyasa, the grandfather of both the Pandavas and the Kauravas. He was a prominent statesman of the Kuru Kingdom...

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,...

Rajarshi) Samvarna II Kuru II (By the name and glory of this king, the dynasty was called Kuru Kingdom and was the founder of Magadha Kingdom.) Once in Treta...

romanized: Vicitravīrya, lit. 'undefeatable warrior') was the king of Kuru Kingdom in the epic Mahabharata, who ruled from the capital Hastinapura. Vichitravirya...

Dhr̥tarāṣṭra) was a Kuru king, and the father of the Kauravas in the Hindu epic Mahabharata. He was the King of the Kuru Kingdom, with its capital at...

mentioned in ancient Indian literature as a city of the Kuru Kingdom. It was the capital of the kingdom led by the Pandavas mentioned in Mahabharata. Under...

Bhishma, a warrior from Kuru Kingdom, along with her sisters Ambika and Ambalika. Bhishma wished to make her the wife of Kuru prince Vichitravirya, but...

Brahmana) as a non-Vedic tribe that invaded Kurukshetra and defeated the Kuru Kingdom, probably c. 900 BCE. The prior history of the Salva tribe is obscure...

Pandu (Sanskrit: पाण्डु, romanized: Pāṇḍu, lit. 'pale') was the king of Kuru Kingdom, with capital at Hastinapur in the epic Mahabharata. He was the foster-father...

Being the first-born son of the king, he was the crown prince of the Kuru Kingdom and its capital of Hastinapura, often forced into ceding the title to...

Mahabharata. She was the princess of Madra Kingdom and the second wife of Pandu, the king of Kuru Kingdom. Madri, with the assistance of her co-wife Kunti...

texts such as the Mahabharata and the Puranas as the capital of the Kuru Kingdom, is also mentioned in ancient Jain texts. Hastinapur is located on the...

(Sanskrit: शांतनु, शान्तनु, IAST: Shāṃtanu, Shāntanu) was the King of Kuru Kingdom with his capital at Hastinapura, in the epic Mahabharata. He was a descendant...

the battle, the Bharatas and other Pūru clans eventually formed the Kuru Kingdom, which was the first attested state in Indian history. The name Bharata...

the Yamuna and the Ganges rivers, the heartland of Aryavarta and the Kuru Kingdom (c. 1200 – c. 900 BCE). The "circum-Vedic" texts, as well as the redaction...

Parīkṣit (Sanskrit: परीक्षित्, IAST: Parīkṣit) was a Kuru king who reigned during the Middle Vedic period (12th–10th centuries BCE). Along with his son...

Hindu epic Mahabharata. He is described as the prime minister of the Kuru kingdom and is the paternal uncle of both the Pandavas and the Kauravas. The...

he has also co-taught. Witzel aims at indicating the emergence of the Kuru Kingdom in the Delhi area (1989, 1995, 1997, 2003), its seminal culture and its...

सत्यवती, IAST: Satyavatī; also spelled Satyawati) was the queen of the Kuru Kingdom. Satyavati is married to king Shantanu of Hastinapura, and is the great-grandmother...

known as Dharmaraja, was the king of Indraprastha and later the King of Kuru Kingdom in the epic Mahabharata. He is the eldest among the five Pandavas, and...