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Teachings of Queen Kunti

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Item Code: UBE820
Author: Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Publisher: ISKCON
Language: English
Edition: 2014
ISBN: 9780892131020
Pages: 278 (Throughout Color Illustrations)
Cover: PAPERBACK
Other Details 8.50 X 5.50 inch
Weight 260 gm
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About the Book
Queen Kunti's prayers, recorded and immortalized in the Srimad Bhagavatam, India's greatest philosophical and spiritual classic, are the simple and illuminating outpourings of the soul of a great and saintly woman devotee. They reveal both the deepest transcendental emotions of the heart and the most profound philosophical and theological penetrations of the intellect. Her words have been recited, chanted, and sung by sages and philosophers in India for thousands of years.

Introduction
The tragic and heroic figure of Queen Kunti emerges from an explosive era in the history of ancient India. As related in the Mahabharata, India's grand epic poem of 110,000 couplets, Kunti was the wife of King Pandu and the mother of five illustrious sons known as the Pandavas. As such, she was one of the central figures in a complex political drama that culminated fifty centuries ago in the Kuruksetra War, a devastating war of ascendancy that changed the course of world events. The Mahabharata describes the prelude to the holocaust as follows:

Pandu became king because his elder brother Dhrtarastra had been born blind, a condition that excluded him from direct succession. Sometime after Pandu ascended to the throne, Dhrtarastra married Gandhari and fathered one hundred sons. This was the ruling family of the Kaurava dynasty, of whom the eldest was the ambitious and cruel Duryodhana.

Meanwhile, Pandu had taken two wives, Madri and Kunti. Originally named Prtha, Kunti was the daughter of Surasena, the chief of the glorious Yadu dynasty. The Mahabharata relates that Kunti "was gifted with beauty and character; she rejoiced in the law [dharma] and was great in her vows." She also possessed an unusual benediction. When she was a child, her father Surasena had given her in adoption to his childless cousin and close friend Kuntibhoja (hence the name "Kunti"). In her stepfather's house, Kunti's duty was to look after the welfare of guests. One day the powerful sage and mystic Durvāsā came there and was pleased by Kunti's selfless service. Foreseeing that she would have difficulty conceiving sons, Durvasa gave her the benediction that she could invoke any demigod and by him obtain progeny.

After Kunti married Pandu, he was placed under a curse that prevented him from begetting children. So he renounced the throne and retired with his wives to the forest.

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