In the magical land of Oklahoma lived
many god like deities. One day in the land of King Dhritarashtra there was immense
anger in the household. The king has had it with his inability to produce
children with his wife Ganghari. They have
attempted many times to conceive but never once were able to succeed. The king
in pure anger started to verbally mistreat his wife. His wife was devastated feeling
it was her fault. She prayed and prayed until one night she got a vision that
she would conceive one hundred children. She told her husband the next day of
her vision. They visited the nearest hospital and it was confirmed they were
expecting one hundred children.
After a few years have gone by her husband
began to lose his vision. The day came where he was no longer capable of seeing
anything. He had gone completely blind. She lived with her husband sadness and
decided to blind fold her eyes to share his pain. She had made a promise to the
gods to share her husbands fate.
Years have passed and she has grown
accustomed to her blindness. Until one day she walked into her room and she
found out her husband was having an affair! She had not thought much of it and
decided to let it go. The king and his lover Kunti had a child together named
Bhama. She was pretty upset but continued to live with it. One night she had a
dream that Bhama would kill her son. She knew how important her dreams were in
reality. She feared that any day Bhama would kill her son. She told the king
and Kunti about it but they thought she was foolish.
The next morning, they get the news
that Bhama had killed her dearest son Duryodhana. Ganghari is extremely
saddened by her luck. She is extremely devastated. She is extremely infuriated
with the gods! Her husband comes in and he tries to console her but her anger sends
a beam that shoots out of her eyes accidently hitting her husband right in the
heart. She takes of her blind fold and sees what she has done. She drops on her
knees and begins to cry. She has broken the heart of her husband. Kunti walks
into the room and sees what has happened she also drops on her knees. They both
begin to cry together and from the skys comes a beam of light that takes her to
the heavens above. The gods have granted her the ability to live among them and
to enjoy all the good things they can offer.
Author’s note
This story deals with the comic book story of
Gandhari: AMother Blinded by Love. I decided to do my story about her because in the
stories I have read about the Pandavas and the Kaurava she does not receive
much attention. I feel like very little is focused upon her and all the she had
to go through. IN this comic book she actually covers her eyes with a blindfold
to share her husband’s misfortune. In the actual story the king does not
actually have an affair. It seems like in many of the stories they just kind of
accept it and not say much about it. I created an affair to draw attention to
the fact that she isn’t the only one in the king’s life. She also foresees her
sons death to on of the Pandava brothers. Gandhari and Kunti were actually good
friends which I did not add any actually fighting between them to portray their
serene relationship. Duryodhana is not her favorite son she actually realizes that
her son is actually and evil being.
She is actually devastated by what has happened to her son
Duryodhana that she does shoot fire from her eyes. The fire actually takes out
Yudhisthira’s toes not the king.
