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The Kunti kingdom was the kingdom of Kunti-Bhoja, one of the prominent kings among the Bhoja-Yadavas. Kunti, the mother of Pandavas and the first wife of Kuru king Pandu, was the adopted daughter of Kuntibhoja. Her given name was Pritha and she was a sister of Vasudeva, the father of Vasudeva Krishna.
Kunti (Sanskrit: कुन्ती, [kun̪t̪iː], IAST: Kuntī), born Pritha (Sanskrit: पृथा, , IAST: Pṛthā), was the queen of Kuru in the Hindu epic Mahabharata. Kunti was married to Pandu and is the mother of Karna, Yudhishthira, Bhima, and Arjuna. She is depicted to possess beauty, intelligence and shrewdness.
According to the Adi Parva of the epic, Pandu was crowned as the king of the Kuru Kingdom despite being younger than his elder brother Dhritrashtra, who was denied the throne for being blind. He married Kunti, a princess of the Yadu clan, and Madri, the princess of Madra Kingdom. Once he was hunting in a forest when he shot a copulating pair of ...
Mahahaya, Renuhaya and Haihaya (the founder of Haihaya Kingdom). (Contemporary to Suryavanshi king Mandhatri) Dharma was the son of Haihaya. Netra; Kunti; Sohanji; Mahishman was the founder of Mahishmati on the banks of River Narmada. Bhadrasenaka (Bhadrasena) (Contemporary to Suryavanshi king Trishanku) Durmada (Contemporary to Suryavanshi ...
The following list enumerates Hindu monarchies in chronological order of establishment dates. These monarchies were widespread in South Asia since about 1500 BC, [1] went into slow decline in the medieval times, with most gone by the end of the 17th century, although the last one, the Kingdom of Nepal, dissolved only in the 2008.
The largest and most prosperous kingdom of the Bhoja tribe was the Vidarbha Kingdom. In the Ramayana epic, the Bhoja princess of Vidarbha was married to Prince Aja of the Kosala Kingdom in a Swayamvara ceremony. [4] Aja was the son of the powerful Ikshavku king Raghu, and the father of King Dasharatha, in turn father of Lord Rama.
Gandhari is welcomed by the Kuru elders. Shakuni returns to his kingdom, but frequently visits Gandhari to help her and her children. [8] Gandhari's husband, Dhritarashtra, is denied the throne due to his blindness, despite being the eldest son. The throne is instead given to his younger brother, Pandu, but he later renounces the kingdom. As a ...
Bhima was the second of the five Pandava brothers, the adoptive sons of retired Kuru king Pandu, and was born to Kunti with divine intervention due to Pandu's inability to conceive. According to the epic, Kunti invoked the wind god, Vayu, using a mantra provided by the sage Durvasa, resulting in Bhima's birth. This divine connection bestowed ...