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Hastinapura

has·ti·na·pura

uncommon

noun

1.

one of two classical Hindu epics; a great collection of poetry worked into and around a central heroic narrative (eight times as large as the Iliad and Odyssey combined)

Origin

Borrowed from Sanskrit हस्तिनापुर (hastināpura).

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