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	Dhritarashtra
		The two brothers in turn renounced the throne, and the Great War recorded in the Mahabharata was fought between their sons, one party being called Kauravas, from an ancestor, Kuru, and the other Pandavas, from their father Pandu.
		Dhritarashtra and his wife were burned in a forest fire.
		Laura Gibbs, Ph.D. The textual material made available at this website is licensed under a Creative Commons License.
	www.mythfolklore.net /india/encyclopedia/dhritarashtra.htm (229 words)

	Mahabharata - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Dhritarashtra, Gandhari and Kunti leave for an ashram, and eventual death in the forest.
		Unfortunately Satyavati's sons die young and her grandson Pandu ascends the throne as his elder brother Dhritarashtra is blind.
		Dhritarashtra’s sons, the Kauravas, led by the eldest Duryodhana, detest their cousins.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mahabharata (3864 words)

	Aneesh's Mahabharata: Glossary
		Born blind as Vyasa predicted, Dhritarashtra lives through the deaths of his sons and the dreadful carnage of the war.
		The pale king, younger brother of the blind Dhritarashtra.
		The wise younger brother of Dhritarashtra and Pandu.
	www.shelterbelt.com /RELIT/MAHAB/Glossary.html (1267 words)

	Mahabharata Epic, Mahabharata Story, About
		The throne of Kurukshetra fell to the prince Dhritarashtra, but he was blind and therefore, according to custom, not eligible to rule.
		The five brothers were eventually driven from the kingdom by the Kauravas, and in exile as soldiers of fortune they married in common the Princess Draupadi.
		Dhritarashtra renounced the throne and divided the kingdom between them and his own sons.
	www.lotussculpture.com /bronze_sculpture_mahabharata.htm (374 words)

	Heart of Hinduism: Smriti: The Bhagavad Gita
		Forming two chapters of the Mahabharata, it is a spiritual treatise spoken by Krishna to Arjuna as they sat on a chariot between two armies poised for battle.
		Blind King Dhritarashtra, sitting in his palace, was worried as to how the proposed battle-site, Kurukshetra – even then a place of pilgrimage – might favour the righteous Pandavas standing opposite his own sons.
		In the final verse of the Gita, Sanjaya plunges Dhritarashtra back into despair, informing him that his sons, fighting opposite Krishna and Arjuna, had no chance of victory.
	hinduism.iskcon.com /tradition/1109.htm (514 words)

	OurKarnataka.Com : Bhagavad Gita
		In the poem the dialogue is between Krishna and Arjuna, and reported by Sanjaya to the blind Kaurava king Dhritarashtra.
		Though possessed of intelligence we have set our mind on the commission of a great sin, due to the lust for throne and pleasures, we are intending to kill our own relatives and kinsmen.
		Arjuna, whose mind was agitated by grief on the battle-field, having spoken thus, and having thrown aside his bow and arrows, sank into the hinder part of the chariot.
	www.ourkarnataka.com /religion/gita/gita.htm (1576 words)

	Summary of the Bhagavad Gita
		The Bhagavad-gita opens with blind King Dhritarashtra requesting his secretary, Sanjaya, to narrate the battle between his sons, the Kauravas, and their cousins, the Pandavas.
		As Arjuna takes up his bow and prepares to fight, he sees the sons of Dhritarashtra drawn in military array and requests infallible Krishna to draw his chariot between the two fighting forces.
		Sanjaya, after narrating this conversation to Dhritarashtra, ecstatically thinks of the wondrous two-armed form of Krishna and predicts victory for Arjuna, the supreme archer, for he is surrendered to Krishna, the master of all mystics.
	www.bhagavad-gita.us /articles/684/1/Summary-of-the-Bhagavad-Gita (2956 words)

	The n-deal: US' Dhritarashtra's embrace?
		If the deal is acceptable to China, it should be of immense harm to India.
		Some see the whole situation as a Dhritarashtra's embrace in which the US will crush India into smithereens.
		The new strategic alliance will push India further and further into the American camp.
	in.rediff.com /news/2007/aug/02tps.htm?zcc=rl (1427 words)

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