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The Great Epics
She covered her eyes for her blind husband. Then she spent decades seeing exactly what her sons were becoming.
She was given to a blind man without being told, and answered by putting out her own eyes for the rest of her life. Nobody has ever agreed on what she meant by it.
Gandhari was the daughter of Subala, king of Gandhara, in the far north-west, and the sister of Shakuni.
She was a serious devotee from girlhood, and the tradition holds she won a boon of a hundred sons for it.
Her marriage was arranged with Dhritarashtra of the Kurus. The families settled it. She was not asked, which was ordinary. And she was not told the man was blind, which was not.
The rest of this story, read aloud, and a new one every day.