When the pots are broken, the hundred Kauravas are born, along with their sister Dushala.
PANDU WIFE FULL
So Vyasa takes the ball of flesh, cuts it into a hundred pieces (hundred and one, because Gandhari wants a girl too, a sister for the hundred brothers), put them in pots full of ghee, and chants mantras. She pressurizes him by reminding him of the blessing he gave her – that she would be the mother of hundred sons. But instead of a premature baby, out rolls a ball of flesh, cold and firm like metal. Refusing to accept this situation as a twist of fate, an angry Dhritarashtra blamed and scolded Gandhari for 'her failure'.ĭesperate, Gandhari tells her servant to strike her pregnant belly with an iron bar repeatedly with great force in order to push the baby out. Unfortunately for him, though his wife Gandhari conceived his child first, Yudhishtira was born first – instantly – thanks to Kunti's mantra. Furious, he was determined to father a son before Pandu did to prove his virility.
Dhritarashtra, though elder to Pandu, was not given the throne because he was blind. Let us contrast this with the birth of the Kauravas. Later, Kunti warns Pandu from being too greedy for sons, for she anticipates a possible power struggle if Madri, the junior queen, has more sons than her, the senior queen. When Kunti's capacity is exhausted, Madri's help is sought. 'No,' said Kunti, 'If Madri has more sons than me then there will be tension between my sons and her sons and that will not be good for anyone.' Pandu makes up for his initial hasty decision using Kunti's capability. Madri invoked the Ashwini twins and secured twin sons, Nakula and Sahadeva, who were well versed in animal and occult lore. He asked her to share it with his junior wife, Madri. But Kunti said she could not use the mantra anymore. Then she invoked Indra, rain-god and sky-god thus was born the skilled archer, Arjuna. Then he told her to invoke Vayu, the wind-god and get a son as strong as Hanuman this son was Bhima. Realizing its value, regretting his hasty decision, he quickly told Kunti to invoke Dharma, dispassionate god of governance, and have a son this son was called Yudhishtira. There, he learnt from his senior wife, Kunti, that she had a mantra that had the power to invoke the devas, and get a son by them. He felt he had no right to rule the kingdom and so, without consulting his wives, he simply renounced the throne and went to the forest. Pandu could not produce children himself as he was cursed. These stories of the birth of the Pandavas and Kauravas in the Mahabharata tells us a lot about how recruitment policies can help us or hurt us in the long run. Mahabharata tells us the story of how Pandavas are created smartly thanks to the intervention of a responsible Kunti and how a pressurized Gandhari hastily creates Kauravas.
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