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The Pandavas evil-minded cousin
Who is Duryodhana?
The place where the Pandavas spent most of their years of exile.
What is the forest?
Duryodhana's jealousy and anger eventually culminate in this epic event.
What is the Mahabharata War?
The value embodied in Arjuna's friendship with Lord Krishna.
What is prema?
Arujuna's charioteer in the war
Who is Krishna?
The wife shared by the Pandava brothers
The fire death trap created by Duryodhana for his cousins
What is the Palace of Lac?
The method that Duryodhana and Shakuni used to steal the Pandava's kingdom from them.
What is cheating at a game of dice?
Lord Krishna pursued this value when he went as a messenger to the Kaurava court to try to avert the war.
What is ahimsa?
The two related families who were fighting on opposite sides in the war.
Who are the Pandavas and Kauravas?
The names of the 5 Pandava brothers
Who are Yuddhisthira, Bhima, Arjuna, Nakula, and Sahadeva?
The Kuru's capital city
What is Hastinapura?
The special way in which Kunti was able to have children
What is a boon from a sage where she could invoke a god to have a child?
The value embodied by Yuddhistira throughout the Mahabharata.
What is dharma?
Arjuna's reaction upon seeing the battlefield ready for war.
What is deep sadness at fighting and killing his relatives?
The king who wanted to marry the fishermaid's daughter
Who is King Shantanu?
The Pandava's new kingdom
What is Indraprastha?
The oath Bhishma took to allow his father to marry the fishermaid's daughter
What is an oath of celebacy and renunciation of the kingdom?
Bhishma wished this value for his relatives, even to the extent of sometimes not standing up for what was right.
What is shanti?
The Commander of the Kaurava army
Who is Bhishma?
Who is Drona?
The island kingdom of Lord Krishna
What is Dwaraka?
The great sacrifice that Yuddhistira completed to become emperor.
What is the Rajasuya Yagna?
The value that reigned supreme through the destruction of the Mahabharata War.
What is satya?
The central meaning of the Bhagavad Gita
What is doing your work in a state of detachment?