Shakuni
Hindu · mortal · epic period · Recorded classification
The dice game is the hinge of the whole epic — everything before it is a family, everything after it is a war — and the registry held neither of the two men who play it on one side.
Domains
- cunning and deceit
- dice and gambling
Relations
- sibling: GandhariReciprocated in-batch.Reference treatment of Shakuni as Duryodhana's maternal uncle. (secondary)
- ally: DuryodhanaReciprocated in-batch.Reference treatment of Shakuni as Duryodhana's principal ally in winning the kingdom at dice. (secondary)
- maternal uncle of: DuryodhanaRecorded as a second, non-symmetric edge because the kinship and the alliance are two different facts and the epic turns on their combination.Reference treatment: Shakuni is Duryodhana's maternal uncle. (secondary)
Sources
- Shakuni is Gandhari's brother and Duryodhana's maternal uncle, the trickster whose rigged dice game strips the Pandavas of their kingdom and sends them into exile.: Reference treatments of Shakuni and of the dice game. (secondary)