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[edit] This should be at "Pandavas"
Whenever I've read something in English about them, the plural has always been "the Pandavas" and not "the Pandava". The Sanskrit plural is "pā́ṇḍavāḥ", so saying "the Pandava" is no more accurate than "the Pandavas", and the latter is by far the most common form in English. --Grammatical error 08:02, 9 July 2006 (UTC)
- No, this article should be at Pandava, as the transliteration of the original term. It allows for plural use in Wikipedia as Pandavas, and also allows the correct use of the term Pandava brothers which is itself fairly common in English. But I've changed the usage in the article, from 'the Pandava' to the other forms. Imc 17:47, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Vidura was married to widow Kunti and widow Madri?
- Vidura was father of Pandavas. Kunti and Madri both married to Vidura. Will anybody on Wikipedia clearify what is the fact?
- vkvora 03:45, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
- Pandu was the father of pandavas. Madri died with pandu and kunti never remarried.nids(♂) 10:26, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
- I have added a reference to Iravati Karve's suggestions on this matter. This is that Vidura was the actual father of the Pandava, but that this was never openly stated, since he was a suta, and the legitimacy of the Pandava was important to their claim to the kingdom. i.e. being the sons of a commoner half brother of your mother's husband is not good if you are claiming a kingdom, but being sons of gods is the next best thing. Imc 11:43, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
