The queen who covered her eyes for life to share her husband's blindness, lost a hundred sons, and cursed the god who let it happen.
Appears in
The second game — Freed and halfway home, the Pandavas are called back for one more throw, and lose thirteen years on it.
Krishna's embassy to Hastinapura — Krishna goes to Hastinapura to ask for peace, is refused even a needle's point of land, and shows the hall who he is
The women on the field — Dhritarashtra crushes an iron Bhima, Gandhari's glance scars Yudhishthira, and her grief ends in a curse on Krishna's whole clan.
The elders go to the forest — Fifteen years after the war the blind king walks out of Hastinapura with his hand on Gandhari's shoulder, and Kunti leads them both
The night the dead came back — Vyasa calls the dead of Kurukshetra out of the Ganga for a single night, and they come without anger, Karna and the Pandavas among them
Embodies
Curse and consequence — A word spoken in anger by a sage, a mother or a wronged woman, and the generations it takes to run its course
Renunciation and release — The epic of a great war ends with its heroes walking away from everything they fought for, one by one
Questions to explore
Why does Gandhari curse Krishna rather than the Pandavas who killed her sons?
Gandhari tells Duryodhana that victory goes where dharma is — why does she never stop him?
