Who is who in the Gita
Gandhari
Wife of Dhritarashtra and mother of the Kauravas.
Who is Gandhari in the Bhagavad Gita?
Wife of Dhritarashtra and mother of the Kauravas. Her background reminds the reader that the consequences Arjuna fears will fall on mothers, wives, elders and households—not only on combatants.
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Relationship
Wife of Dhritarashtra and mother of the Kauravas.
Why she matters
Her position holds together motherhood, dynastic loyalty, moral warning and catastrophic grief. Even though she does not speak in the Gita, she represents the human world that Arjuna fears war will devastate.
Read together
Context for 1.31–44; later Stri Parva for the epic’s grief after war (Vyasa, trans. Ganguli, 1883–1896).