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Entry कुरु

कुरुkuru(pl.)
1. (Plural)
2. Name of a country situated in the north of India about the site of the modern Delhi; श्रियः कुरूणा- मधिपस्य पालनीम् Ki.1.1; चिराय तस्मिन् कुरवश्चकासति 1.17.
3. The kings of this country.
Derived forms and compounds
- -राजः
  
  an epithet of Duryodhana. स्वस्था भवन्तु कुरुराजसुताः सभृत्याः Ve.1.7.
  
  Name of Yudhi- ṣṭhira; कस्यचित्त्वथ कालस्य कुरुराजो युधिष्ठिरः Mb.16.1.7.
- -विस्तः a weight of gold equal to about 7 Troy grains.
- -वृद्धः an epithet of Bhīṣma; तस्य संजनयन्हर्षं कुरुवृद्धः पितामहः Bg.1.12.
- -रुः
  
  A priest.
  
  Boiled rice.
- -क्षेत्रम् Name of an extensive plain near Delhi, the scene of the great war between the Kauravas and Pāṇḍavas; धर्मक्षेत्रे कुरुक्षेत्रे समवेता युयुत्सवः Bg.1.1; Ms.2.19.
- -क्षेत्रियोगः a solar day in the course of which three lunar days, three asterisms and three yogas occur. The yoga is indicative of death; पञ्चग्रहयुते मृत्यौ लग्नसंस्थे बृहस्पतौ । सौम्यक्षेत्रगते लग्ने कुरुक्षेत्रे मृति- र्भवेत् ॥ -चिल्लः a crab.
- -जाङ्गलम् Equivalent to कुरुक्षेत्र quod vide, which see
- -नन्दनः epithet of Arjuna; Bg.2.41;6.43.
- -पञ्चालाः Name of a country; कुरुपञ्चालानां ब्राह्मणाः Bṛi. Up.3.9.19.
- -बिल्वः a ruby.
- -राज् Masculine
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योगस्थः कुरु कर्माणि संगं त्यक्त्वा धनंजय ।

yogasthaḥ kuru karmāṇi saṅgaṁ tyaktvā dhanaṁjaya, — Fixed in Yoga do thy actions, having abandoned attachment, having become equal in failure and success; for it is equality that is meant by Yoga. 2·48
- कुरुkuruimperative 2nd person singular of the parasmaipada verbal root kṛ (to do).
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