Kunti is the eldest wife of King Pandu and the mother of Yudhishthira, Arjuna, and Bhima in the Mahabharata, the later of the two major Hindu epics.
None of these children are Pandu's sons; instead, they were
miraculously born as a result of the sage Durvasas' chant to Kunti.
The lady who recites the mantra has the ability to summon
any of the gods and have a son who is equal to the god himself.
This mantra is given to Kunti before to her marriage.
She recites it while gazing at the sun in a fit of
adolescent impulsiveness.
She is quickly visited by a dazzling figure who bestows upon
her a similarly brilliant son.
She puts him in a box and aban dons him in the Ganges River,
distraught and frantic at the birth of this illicit kid.
The charioteer Adhiratha adopts the kid, who grows up to be
the heroic Karna.
Kunti's other three sons are born after her marriage, with
Pandu's blessing: Yudhishthira, who is the personification of justice, Arjuna,
who is the storm god Indra, and Bhima, who is the wind deity Vayu.
Despite growing up to be noble and kingly characters, these
three acquire a strong animosity towards Karna due to his uncertain paternity.
This terrible struggle between men who are unaware that they
are broth ers is one of the Mahabharata's sad themes.
Kunti, who is aware of Karna's identity, finds their
animosity particularly difficult.
She understands that her issues stem from her impulsiveness
and timidity.
She travels to Karna on the eve of the great Mahabharata
battle, exposes his identity to him, and begs him to return and fight alongside
his brothers.
Karna refuses, claiming that he has sworn to kill Arjuna but
would spare her other sons.
Kunti becomes a hermit after the war, living in the
wilderness with a group of her generation.
She gets murdered in a forest fire after living there for
many years.
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