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ARJUNA

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ARJUNA (noun)
  The noun ARJUNA has 1 sense:

1. (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 Godplay

  Familiarity information: ARJUNA used as a noun is very rare.


English dictionary: Word details


ARJUNA (noun)


Sense 1

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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)


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