Time passed.
The three children grew up loved by all, and especially by their uncle Bhishma, who treated them as if they were his own children.
When the princes reached marriageable age, Bhishma was concerned about finding good wives for them.
Dhritarastra married Gandhari, the caste daughter of king Subala of Gandhara. As soon as this pious woman learned that she would have a blind husband, she did not want to have anything that was not also in the possession of her husband and put on a blindfold, vowing never to take it off.
During the same period, Pandu, the second son, married Madri, the daughter of the king of Madra.
This is a section of the book “Maha-Bharata As It Is vol. 1 of 2”.
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