encyclopedia – Vyasa Mahabharata

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Takshaka

Takshaka was one of the Nagas mentioned in the epic Mahābhārata. He lived in a city named Takshasila, which was the new territory of Takshaka after his race was banished by Pandavas led by Arjuna from the Khandava Forest and Kurukshetra, where they built their new kingdom. Takshaka is mentioned…

Tapati

TapatiTapati (Sanskrit: तपती, tapatī), as mentioned in Mahabharata, is a daughter of Surya (the Sun god) and Chhaya one of the wife’s of surya, sister of Savitri and the wife of Samvarana, and the mother of Kuru, the founder of Kuru dynasty. Tapati name literally means the “warming”, “the hot one”, “burning one”. It had been said that no…