Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c9.2273

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1) General. A King of Gāndhāra. Subala was the father of Śakuni, uncle of the Kauravas. Śakuni was the rebirth of Nagnajit, disciple of Prahlāda. Śakuni inherited the name Saubala from his father Subala whose only daughter was Gāndhārī, mother of Duryodhana. Both Śakuni and Gāndhārī were economic experts. (Ādi Parva, Chapter 63). At the time of the marriage proposal of Gāndhārī the fact of the blindness of Dhṛtarāṣṭra, the prospective bride-groom, worried Subala much, but he married his daughter to the blind King considering the great reputation of the royal family. (Ādi Parva, Chapter 109, Verse 11).