Gandhari

The detail she is best known for — that she bound her own eyes for life on marrying a blind man, so as not to have what her husband lacked — is not written into the lifecycle here, because the treatments consulted state the marriage, the hundred sons and the intervention and do not state the blindfold. It is a famous fact and this record still does not assert it without a citation in hand. That restraint is the programme's, and it is worth being visible on a figure this well known.

Children

• Chitrasena (the Kaurava)
• Duryodhana
• Dushasana
• Vikarna

Domains

• queenship

Relations

• queen consort of: DhritarashtraNon-symmetric, so nothing is written onto the pre-existing Dhritarashtra record, which the corpus holds with no spouse at all.Reference treatment: Dhritarashtra was blind from birth and became father to a hundred sons and one daughter by his wife Gandhari. (secondary)
• sibling: ShakuniReciprocated in-batch.Reference treatment: Shakuni is Duryodhana's maternal uncle, that is, Gandhari's brother. (secondary)
• intervened for: DraupadīNon-symmetric, so nothing is written onto the pre-existing Draupadi record. The edge is worth having: the two women stand on opposite sides of the hall in the epic's worst scene, and the one who stops it is the mother of the men who caused it.Reference treatment: as an enraged Draupadi is about to curse the Kuru clan, Gandhari intervenes. (secondary)

Sources

• Gandhari is the Kuru queen, wife of the blind Dhritarashtra and mother of the hundred Kauravas and one daughter, who intervenes when Draupadi is about to curse the clan.: Reference treatments of Gandhari, of the Kauravas and of the dice game. (secondary)