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Kunti (Sanskrit: कुन्ती, [kun̪t̪iː], IAST: Kuntī), born Pritha (Sanskrit: पृथा, [pr̩t̪ʰaː], 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 book Roots, Kunta Kinte was born circa 1750 in the Mandinka village of Jufureh, in the Gambia.He was raised in a Muslim family. [4] [5] In 1767, while Kunta was searching for wood to make a drum for himself, four men chased him, surrounded him, and took him captive.
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.
A Kunta man in the Timbuktu region c. 1908.. The Kountas or Kuntas (singular: Elkentawi or Alkanata) are described originally as Arabs, descendants of Uqba ibn Nafi. [1] The Kunta tribe are also considered to have roots to Sidi Ahmed al-Bakkay, the founder, who died in the early 16th century.
Sidi Al-Mukhtar al-Kunti (1728–1811) united the Kunta factions by successful negotiation, and established an extensive confederation. Under his influence the Maliki school of Islamic law was reinvigorated and the Qadiriyyah order spread throughout Mauritania , the middle Niger region, Guinea , the Ivory Coast , Futa Toro , and Futa Jallon .
Kunti Betta (also spelled Kunthi Betta) is a set of two rocky hills [1] in Pandavapura, Mandya district, Karnataka. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The hills sit at an elevation of 878 m (2,882 ft). [ 5 ] Kunti Betta lies not far from Thonnur Lake, [ 2 ] [ 6 ] and is situated at a distance of 130 km (81 mi) from Bangalore . [ 6 ]
Al-Mukhtar ibn Ahmad al-Kunti was born in 1729 in the Erg Oralla region to the north of Mabroûk, Mali. [2]His family belonged to the Zawāyā, a group of tribes that had abandoned violence and self-defense in favor of a peaceful life of religious devotions and herding, paying tribute to the warrior groups to avoid molestation. [3]
Kunti uses this boon to ask Dharma, the god of justice, Vayu, the god of the wind, and Indra, the lord of the heavens for sons. She gives birth to three sons, Yudhishthira, Bhima, and Arjuna, through these gods. Kunti shares her mantra with the younger queen Madri, who bears the twins Nakula and Sahadeva through the Ashwini twins. However ...