Panchakanya
Sign in to savethumb|250px|Panchakanya, a pre-1945 lithograph from Ravi Varma Press.
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- Panchakanya
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- P522
- Cologne phonetics
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- PNKKNY
- writing system
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Encyclopedic overview
14 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- Hymn
- From the Ramayana
- Ahalya
- Tara
- Mandodari
- Sita
- From the Mahabharata
- Draupadi
- Kunti
- Common Features
- In popular culture
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thumb|250px|Panchakanya, a pre-1945 lithograph from Ravi Varma Press.
The Panchakanya () is a group of five iconic women of the Hindu epics, extolled in a hymn and whose names are believed to dispel sin when recited. They are Ahalya, Draupadi, Kunti, Tara, and Mandodari. While Draupadi and Kunti are from the Mahabharata, Ahalya, Tara, and Mandodari are from the Ramayana. The Panchakanya are regarded to be ideal women who exemplify perfect wives in Hinduism.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Panchakanya” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.