Pandavas

[puhn-duh-vuhz]

noun

(used with a plural verb)

1. (in theMahabharata ) the family of Arjuna, at war with their cousins, the Kauravas.

Example Sentences

Not just Draupadi, the Pandavas of Mama's Boys are also very different from the way they were in the original epic and Verma's script is full of risque and suggestive dialogue.

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Tomorrow he would go to war, and his enemies would be the Pandavas.

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The neighbouring village of Indarpat preserves the name of Indraprashta, the semi-mythical city founded, according to the Sanscrit epic Mahabharata, by Yudisthira and his brothers, the five Pandavas.

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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.

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