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ARJUNA
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
(Hindu mythology) the warrior prince in the Bhagavad-Gita to whom Krishna explains the nature of being and of God and how humans can come to know God
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Instance hypernyms:
mythical being (an imaginary being of myth or fable)
Domain category:
Hindooism; Hinduism (a body of religious and philosophical beliefs and cultural practices native to India and based on a caste system; it is characterized by a belief in reincarnation, by a belief in a supreme being of many forms and natures, by the view that opposing theories are aspects of one eternal truth, and by a desire for liberation from earthly evils)
mythology (myths collectively; the body of stories associated with a culture or institution or person)