Also called Pandu the pale.
Pandu
पाण्डु
The king who won the throne his blind brother could not hold, shot a sage in the form of a deer, and was cursed never to touch his wives.
Appears in
- The birth of the Kuru princes — A blind heir, a pale one and a renunciant's vow leave the succession contested before any of the cousins can walk.
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
Questions to explore
- Why does Pandu leave his kingdom for the forest after the curse?
- The Pandavas are named for a father who could not father them — what does the epic make of that?
