Shakuni
Shakuni: who Shakuni is in the Mahabharata, in plain words.
Gandhari's brother, a master of dice and the adviser to Duryodhana, who plans the game that ruins the Pandavas.
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.