Brahmana of Ekachakra
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The Brahmana of Ekachakra is a pious householder in the Mahabharata who shelters the Pandavas in disguise and becomes central to the episode involving the man-eating demon Bakasura.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Brahmana of Ekachakra canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T19026168 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Brahmana of Ekachakra Context triple: [Vaka-vadha sub-parva, hasCharacter, Brahmana of Ekachakra]
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A.
Talavakara Brahmana
The Talavakara Brahmana is a prose Vedic text of the Samaveda tradition that includes and contextualizes the Kena Upanishad within its ritual and theological discussions.
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B.
Vidyadhara
Vidyadhara was a prominent 11th-century Chandela king of central India, known for his military resistance against Mahmud of Ghazni and for patronizing art and architecture in the Bundelkhand region.
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C.
Praneshacharya
Praneshacharya is the deeply orthodox Brahmin scholar and morally conflicted protagonist of U. R. Ananthamurthy’s Kannada novel "Samskara," whose spiritual crisis drives the narrative.
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D.
भानुभक्त आचार्य
भानुभक्त आचार्य नेपाली भाषाका आदिकवि हुन्, जसले रामायणको नेपाली अनुवाद र आफ्ना सरल, जनजीवनसँग जोडिएका काव्यकृतिहरूका कारण विशेष ख्याति प्राप्त गरेका छन्।
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E.
Anandatirtha
Anandatirtha is another name for Madhvacharya, the 13th-century Indian philosopher and theologian who founded the Dvaita (dualist) school of Vedanta.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Brahmana of Ekachakra Target entity description: The Brahmana of Ekachakra is a pious householder in the Mahabharata who shelters the Pandavas in disguise and becomes central to the episode involving the man-eating demon Bakasura.
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A.
Talavakara Brahmana
The Talavakara Brahmana is a prose Vedic text of the Samaveda tradition that includes and contextualizes the Kena Upanishad within its ritual and theological discussions.
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B.
Vidyadhara
Vidyadhara was a prominent 11th-century Chandela king of central India, known for his military resistance against Mahmud of Ghazni and for patronizing art and architecture in the Bundelkhand region.
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C.
Praneshacharya
Praneshacharya is the deeply orthodox Brahmin scholar and morally conflicted protagonist of U. R. Ananthamurthy’s Kannada novel "Samskara," whose spiritual crisis drives the narrative.
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D.
भानुभक्त आचार्य
भानुभक्त आचार्य नेपाली भाषाका आदिकवि हुन्, जसले रामायणको नेपाली अनुवाद र आफ्ना सरल, जनजीवनसँग जोडिएका काव्यकृतिहरूका कारण विशेष ख्याति प्राप्त गरेका छन्।
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E.
Anandatirtha
Anandatirtha is another name for Madhvacharya, the 13th-century Indian philosopher and theologian who founded the Dvaita (dualist) school of Vedanta.
- F. None of above. chosen
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