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Kauravas

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[kou-ruh-vahz] / ˈkaʊ rəˌvɑz /

noun

(used with a plural verb)
  1. (in theMahabharata ) the cousins and enemies of the Pandavas.


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“We had 100 Kauravas from one mother because of stem cell and test tube technology,” said G. Nageshwar Rao, vice chancellor at Andhra University, referring to a story from the Hindu epic Mahabharata.

From The Guardian

Local traditions says that, when the great war which is described in the Mahābhārata was about to begin, the Kauravas, the opponents of the Pāndavas, to bring them success, sacrificed a white elephant.

From Project Gutenberg

The Mahabharata is a great poetic narrative of a conflict between the two branches of the Bharata family—the Pandavas and the Kauravas—for the petty kingdom of Hastinapura, near the modern city of Delhi.

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It contains an account of the struggle between the Pandavas, or five sons of Pandu, and the Kauravas, or hundred sons of Dhritavashtra, in which the latter are ultimately defeated in their attempt to obtain the kingdom of Ngastina.

From Project Gutenberg

The first were called Pandavas, the last Kauravas, and their lifelong feud is the main subject of the epic.

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