The sage continuing telling Janmajeya said :
Once Vyasa was pleased with the devotion of Gandhari , blessed her to have hundred sons as strong as her husband.
Gandhari became pregnant and even after ten months had passed, she was still pregnant. She then heard that Kunti had given birth to a son.
Gandhari was unhappy. The eldest in the race would have right to the throne. Even though she was pregnant before Kunti, Kunti had given birth had given birth first.
A year passed and she was still pregnant. Not sure what to do, she struck her stomach with an iron mace, in disgust, thinking of terminating her pregnancy.
The pregnancy terminated, Gandhari gave birth to a lump of flesh. Hearing this, Vyasa came there. He told Gandhari that jealousy and anger were not virtues of a noble woman and she should not have done what she did.
Gandhari asked the sage to help her. The sage asked her to get hundred pots, fill the pots with clarified butter, and carefully divide the flesh into portions and put a portion in each pot. He then told her to water the pots regularly. He asked her not to disturb the pots, and saying this he left.
The day Bhima was born in the forest, the same day Duryodhana was born from the first pot. The moment he was born, Duryodhana started braying like a donkey. Hearing this, the donkeys in the neighborhood started calling out. In response, the dogs and foxes started howling.
Dhritarashtra went to Bhishma and Vidura and said he was sad as Pandu's son was the eldest and would claim right to the throne. With the birth of his son, there were ill omens everywhere.
Vidura said this is not a good sign. He asked the king to abandon the child. Blinded by the love for his first born, Dhritarashtra refused to agree. Soon the other ninety nine sons were born.
Janmajeya said : I know Duryodhana had a sister. After the hundred sons when did Gandhari have a daughter?
The sage said : When Vyasa was dividing the flesh into parts, Gandhari was wishing for a daughter to be born. It so happened, that after diving into hundred parts, a small part was left. Vyasa then told Gandhari that this part would be the daughter that she was wishing for.
There was a maid with whom Dhritarashtra had slept once. From this maid was born a son called Yuyutsu.
Later the hunderd and one sons got married to able princesses and the daughter, Dushala, got married to Jayadhrata.
Once Vyasa was pleased with the devotion of Gandhari , blessed her to have hundred sons as strong as her husband.
Gandhari became pregnant and even after ten months had passed, she was still pregnant. She then heard that Kunti had given birth to a son.
Gandhari was unhappy. The eldest in the race would have right to the throne. Even though she was pregnant before Kunti, Kunti had given birth had given birth first.
A year passed and she was still pregnant. Not sure what to do, she struck her stomach with an iron mace, in disgust, thinking of terminating her pregnancy.
The pregnancy terminated, Gandhari gave birth to a lump of flesh. Hearing this, Vyasa came there. He told Gandhari that jealousy and anger were not virtues of a noble woman and she should not have done what she did.
Gandhari asked the sage to help her. The sage asked her to get hundred pots, fill the pots with clarified butter, and carefully divide the flesh into portions and put a portion in each pot. He then told her to water the pots regularly. He asked her not to disturb the pots, and saying this he left.
The day Bhima was born in the forest, the same day Duryodhana was born from the first pot. The moment he was born, Duryodhana started braying like a donkey. Hearing this, the donkeys in the neighborhood started calling out. In response, the dogs and foxes started howling.
Dhritarashtra went to Bhishma and Vidura and said he was sad as Pandu's son was the eldest and would claim right to the throne. With the birth of his son, there were ill omens everywhere.
Vidura said this is not a good sign. He asked the king to abandon the child. Blinded by the love for his first born, Dhritarashtra refused to agree. Soon the other ninety nine sons were born.
Janmajeya said : I know Duryodhana had a sister. After the hundred sons when did Gandhari have a daughter?
The sage said : When Vyasa was dividing the flesh into parts, Gandhari was wishing for a daughter to be born. It so happened, that after diving into hundred parts, a small part was left. Vyasa then told Gandhari that this part would be the daughter that she was wishing for.
There was a maid with whom Dhritarashtra had slept once. From this maid was born a son called Yuyutsu.
Later the hunderd and one sons got married to able princesses and the daughter, Dushala, got married to Jayadhrata.
OMG ...Dhritarashtra slept with maid :P ..
ReplyDelete:D - As per the original Sanskrit epic, this was a low caste woman called Sugadha. This sone, Yuyutsu was different from the sons of Gandhari in character. He does not have a big role to play, but he was known to be a good person. He stayed on the side of the moral and just before the great war, he shifted to the Pandava camp and fought against the Kauravas. He was the only son of Dhritarashtra who survived the war.
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