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Name Panchali

Gender Feminine

Scripts पाञ्चाली

Other Forms FormsPancali, Panchaali

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Meaning & History

Means "from the kingdom of Panchala" in Sanskrit. This is an epithet of Draupadi, the wife of the Pandavas in the Indian epic the Mahabharata.

It is proposed that the kingdom of Panchala was formed from five tribes or clans, its name being derived from पञ्च (pancha), the Sanskrit word for the number five.

Added 6/16/2014 by la-petite-rachel

Date	Editor	Change Summary
7/27/2018, 2:17 PM	la-petite-rachel	Adding information on etymology and meaning.
6/16/2014, 5:35 PM	la-petite-rachel