An Index to the Names in the Mahabharata, with Short Explanations and a Concordance to the Bombay and Calcutta Editions and P. C. Roy's Translation c5.s3.367
An Index to the Names in the Mahābhārata, with Short Explanations and a Concordance to the Bombay and Calcutta Editions and P. C. Roy's Translation c5.s3.367
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[Dhṛtarāṣṭra-vivāha(h)] (“marriage of Dhṛtarāṣṭra”): § 174 (Sambhavap.): Bhīṣma proposed to marry the two princes to Yādavī (i.e. Kuntī), and to the daughter of the Gāndhāra king Subala (i.e. Gāndhārī), and to the daughter of the Madra king. Gāndhārī had obtained from Çiva (cf. § 180) the boon that she should have 100 sons. She now was brought to the Kurus by her brother Çakuni (who then returned home), and given to Dhṛtarāṣṭra. From love for her future husband she had bandaged her own eyes with cloth (I, 110).