Kunti
Kunti: who Kunti is in the Mahabharata, in plain words.
Mother of Karna (before marriage), Yudhishthira, Bhima and Arjuna, and foster-mother of the twins; widowed early, she raises the Pandavas and goes to the forest with Dhritarashtra and Gandhari.
See the whole story in eighteen books and the other characters.
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A retelling in our own words of a story told in many ways across India and Asia. Tellers differ on many episodes. It is not a scholarly translation.