Gitanjali Roy
Encyclopædia Britannica Editor
Gitanjali Roy is senior editor, Encyclopaedia Britannica. She has over two decades of editorial experience across digital and broadcast media. She has a degree in Literature from the University of Delhi.
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Pandavas, in Hindu legend, the five sons of the dynastic hero Pandu. They defeated the Kauravas, their cousins, in the great war central to the Sanskrit epic poem the Mahabharata. The parentage of the Pandavas is nominally attributed to Pandu (from whose name the word Pandava is derived) and his…
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