Gandhari (गान्धारी) means "princess of Gandhara" (modern Kandahar). The wife of the blind King Dhritarashtra in the Mahabharata — **on learning of her husband's blindness, she bound a cloth over her own eyes for life**, refusing to enjoy what he could not see. **Mother of the 100 Kauravas**. Her curse on Krishna at the war's end destroyed the Yadava clan.
Featured throughout the Mahabharata.
Gandhari reduces to nine — the number of blindfolded queen.