Bhagavad Gita · Mahabharata Codex

Kuntibhoja

कुन्तिभोज · kuntibhoja

King of the Kuntis; the house that adopted Kunti

The Pandavas' mother carries his name.

The elder Kuntibhoja was childless, and his cousin Shura of the Yadavas gave him his firstborn daughter, Pritha, to raise. She grew up in his house, served the sage Durvasa there, and is known ever after as Kunti. The Kuntibhoja at Kurukshetra, of that same house, fights for her sons as their kinsman on the mother's side.