Gandhari
Family: Kurus · Role: queen; wife of Dhrita-rashtra · First appears: Book IV (The Fatal Dice) · IV. Dhrita-rastra's Kindness
In Book IV (The Fatal Dice) · IV. Dhrita-rastra's Kindness, Gandhari speaks her fears to her husband, Dhrita-rashtra. In Book IX (Fall of Drona) · V. Fall of Drona, Duryodhan is called her royal son; in Book XI (Funeral Rites) · I. Kuru Women visit the Battle-field, she leaves Hastina with Dhrita-rashtra and the mourning women for the battlefield. There, in Book XI (Funeral Rites) · III. Gandhari's Lament for Duryodhan, she laments that she has lived to see her son Duryodhan and her grandson Lakshman slain.
Relationship record
Life events
- Dhrita-rashtra and the mourning women left Hastina for the battlefield.(Book XI (Funeral Rites) · I. Kuru Women visit the Battle-field · 📍 Hastina)
- With: Dhrita-rashtra Pritha
- “With this troop of wailing women, deep in woe, disconsolate, Slow the monarch of the Kurus passed Hastina's outer gate,”
- Gandhari laments that she lives to see her son Duryodhan and her grandson Lakshman slain.(Book XI (Funeral Rites) · III. Gandhari's Lament for Duryodhan)
Book IV (The Fatal Dice) · IV. Dhrita-rastra's Kindness
- married with Dhrita-rashtra “Spake her fears the Queen Gandhari to her spouse and royal lord.”
Book IX (Fall of Drona) · V. Fall of Drona
- child: Duryodhan “Fair Gandhari's royal son,”
Book XI (Funeral Rites) · III. Gandhari's Lament for Duryodhan
- child: Duryodhan “'Son!' I said to dear Duryodhan, 'Heaven avert a cruel fate,”
- younger kin: Lakshman “Should Gandhari live to witness noble son and grandson slain?”
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Extracted from the original text of Maha-bharata, The Epic of Ancient India. Made with Rho MD.