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The Kaunteyas

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The Kaunteyas

â€˜Death is important to a man, but survival is more important to a woman.â€™
With a split destiny ruling her life, Kunti, given away at birth, leads a hard but uneventful existence in her foster-fatherâ€™s home. At fourteen she is pressed into the service of the temperamental sage Durvasa who grants her a boon. Its first use, however, only brings her adversity and a shameful secret.
With marriage to Pandu, Kunti dreams of a better future, but a curse makes him leave the throne of Hastinapur to his sibling, the blind Dhritarashtra, and retreat to the forest. The births of the five Pandavas rekindle Kuntiâ€™s hopes of returning to Hastinapur, but these are destroyed once again when Pandu dies suddenly. Kunti journeys to the kingdom, no longer its queen but a widow, a dependant as are her sons. She must now take up the task of guiding them through the long struggle to get their inheritance, a struggle made harder by the discovery that the illegitimate child she had abandoned long ago is alive and a sworn enemy of the Pandavas.
Recasting the Mahabharata from the viewpoint of Kunti, The Kaunteyas replaces the idealized mother figure with a fully three-dimensional woman, providing new insights into the epic.

Country	USA
Author	Madhavi S. Mahadevan
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9789386224187
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Tranquebar
Manufacturer	Tranquebar
NumberOfPages	400
PublicationDate	2016-11-19
Publisher	Tranquebar
ReleaseDate	2016-11-19
Studio	Tranquebar

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