kurus in A Sentence

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    The Kurus refused.

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    The Aryans settled in this region who were close allies of Kurus.

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    According to legend, Beed was an inhabited place in the period of Pandavas and Kurus as Durgavati.

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    That is why the arable land of that 48 Kos was called Kurukshetra after the name of the Kurus, which is still considered a sacred region of Indian culture.

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    It may safely be inferred that this area was also included in the kingdom of the Kurus, which was one of the sixteen Mahajanapadas in the 6th century B. C.

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    According to tradition, early in this period a great battle called the Mahabharata, in which rulers of all the Indian states took part, was fought between two neighbouring Aryan tribes, the Kurus and the Panchalas.

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    But there are indications that about 900 BC there was a terrible holocaust after which the political and cultural centre of the Aryans shifted from east Punjab to Hastinapur, the capital of the Kurus in the Gangetic Doab.

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    Religious significance, however, is attributed not to the story of the Kurus and the Pandavas but to those portions of the Mahabharata which deal with philosophical problems, specially to the famous discourse of Sri Krishna to which we have referred above.

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