The Kauravas are the
hundred sons of King Dhrtarashtra in the Mahabharata, the later of the two
major Hindu epics, and the epic's enemies to the Pandava heroes.
As descendants of Kuru, King Shantanu's ancestor, the
Kauravas get their name.
The Kaurava boys are born in an unconventional way, as is
common in Hindu mythology.
Gandhari, their mother, obtains the sage Vyasa's benediction
(ashirvad) that she would have one hundred boys.
Her pregnancy is more than two years long.
She gives birth to a large lump of meat when she becomes
impatient and attempts to accelerate the delivery.
Gandhari should split the lump and set each piece in a
saucepan of clarified butter, according to Vyasa (ghee).
Each of the 101 pots eventually breaks open, revealing a
hundred lovely lads and a solitary girl, Dussala.
The two oldest sons, Duryodhana and Duhshasana, are the most
significant of the hundred sons.
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