Duryodhana
दुर्योधन
From Sanskrit dus-, "hard, bad", and yodhana, "fighting": "hard to defeat".
Meaning and origin
Duryodhana is a Sanskrit warrior's name built to mean roughly "hard to defeat", and in the epic Mahabharata it belongs to the eldest of the hundred Kaurava brothers, chief rival of the five Pandavas.
How to pronounce Duryodhana
| Hindi | dur-YOH-dhuh-nuh /d̪ʊrjoːd̪ʱənə/ |
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