Family Tree
For each family, an indent denotes a new generation
- Vichitravirya - King of Hastinapura
- Dhritarashtra - Blind son of Vichitravirya, King after Pandu dies
- Duryodhana - eldest son of Dhritarashtra and Gandhari
- Pandu - King of Hastinapura
- Yudhishthira (son of Kunti) - becomes leader after Dhritarashtra
- Bhima (son of Kunti)
- Arjuna (son of Kunti)
- Nakula (son of Madri)
- Sahadeva (son of Madri)
Other Information
- The sons of Pandu are known as the Pandavas
- Dhritarashtra and Queen Gandhari have 100 sons
- The sons of Dhritarashtra are known as the Kauravas
- All of the Pandavas and Kauravas are long descendents of King Bharata
- Drona is the teacher of the Pandavas and the Kauravas
- Leads attack on Drupada, and Drupada prays to the gods for revenge on the Bharatas
- Draupadi is born from Drupada's sacrificial fire
- Duryodhana decides to kill the Pandavas and their mother, Kunti
- The half-brother of the Pandavas and Kauravas, Vidura helps the Pandavas escape the planned fire
- Karna is the secret child of Kunti and sun god Surya
- Draupadi is going to be married away
- Karna and Arjuna compete in an archery contest for Draupadi
- Karna was winning, but Draupadi announced she will not marry Karna because Karna was raised by a charioteer
- Arjuna wins Draupadi and they are to get married
- Kunti mistakenly tells Arjuna that he must share what he has gotten thinking that Arjuna had received food
- Kunti can not take back her word, so Draupadi must marry all five Pandava brothers
- The Pandava brothers all had weddings with Draupadi, one immediately after another
- The Pandava brothers became allied with King Drupada after they married Draupadi
- Bhishma is the uncle of King Dhritarashtra
- Bhishma urges Duryodhana to forgive the Pandavas and make peace
- Duryodhana invites the Pandavas to have half his kingdom and the Pandavas name the kingdom Indraprastha
- Arjuna is exiled from the kingdom after he enters Draupadi's room uninvited while Yudhishthira is in Draupadi's room
- Arjuna is son of Indra and has done favors for Agni, the fire god and received celestial weapons from Agni
- Arjuna meets Subhadra and marries her
- Subhadra is the sister of Krishna, who likes Arjuna immediately because Krishna knows who Arjuna truly is
- The Pandava brothers get a palace from Maya, an asura who Arjuna spared while killing all of the nagas
- Yudhishthira declares himself emperor of the palace
- Shakuni - Duryodhana's maternal uncle
- Shakuni urged Duryodhana to exploit Yudhishthira's gambling problem to gain the palace
- Duryodhana does so
- Yudhishthira loses everything to Shakuni in games of dice
- Yudhishthira even gambles and loses Draupadi
- Duryodhana taunts Draupadi by showing his thigh
- Bhima vows to break Duryodhana's thigh in battle
- King Dhritarashtra gives everything back to the Pandavas and Duryodhana is outraged
- Duryodhana once again challenges Yudhishthira to a game of dice and Yudhishthira wages 12 years in exile and loses
- Vyasa is the grandfather of the Pandavas
- Vyasa urges the Pandavas to send Arjuna in search of celestial weapons
- Arjuna gets the weapons
- Bhima captured by a snake in a cave
- Snake tells Yudhishthira that he will free Bhima if Yudhishthira answers enough questions correctly, and Yudhishthira does so
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| Draupadi as she is being gambled away by Yudhishthira. Image courtesy of Wikimedia |
Bibliography
"The Mahabharata". C.A. Kinkaid. Found online here
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