Uluka (, , ) is a character in the Mahabharata, one of the two principal Sanskrit epics of ancient India. He is described as the prince of the Gandhara Kingdom and the eldest son of its ruler, Shakuni, who is renowned within the epic as a cunning gambler. Uluka serves as the final emissary of his cousin, Duryodhana, on the eve of the Kurukshetra War, conveying the rejection of peace proposal to the Pandavas. Uluka participates in the Kurukshetra war from the Kaurava side and is killed by the youngest Pandava Sahadeva during the conflict, shortly before the death of his father.
Uluka (, , ) is a character in the Mahabharata, one of the two principal Sanskrit epics of ancient India. He is described as the prince of the Gandhara Kingdom and the eldest son of its ruler, Shakuni, who is renowned within the epic as a cunning gambler. Uluka serves as the final emissary of his cousin, Duryodhana, on the eve of the Kurukshetra War, conveying the rejection of peace proposal to the Pandavas. Uluka participates in the Kurukshetra war from the Kaurava side and is killed by the youngest Pandava Sahadeva during the conflict, shortly before the death of his father.
== Literary background == The Mahabharata, one of the Sanskrit epics from the Indian subcontinent, other being the Ramayana. It mainly narrates the events and aftermath of the Kurukshetra War, a war of succession between two groups of princely cousins, the Kauravas and the Pandavas. The work is written in Classical Sanskrit and is a composite work of revisions, editing and interpolations over many centuries. The oldest parts in the surviving version of the text may date to near 400 BCE. The Mahabharata is divided into eighteen parvas or 'books'.
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