Kaurava is a Sanskrit term which remanded to descendants of Kuru, the legendary king of India who is the ancestor of numerous of the characters of the epic Mahabharata. Usually, the term is used for the 100 sons of King Dhritarashtra as well as his wife Gandhari. Duryodhana, Dushasana as well as Vikarna are the nearly popular among the brothers. They also had a sister named Dussala and a half-brother named Yuyutsu.
After ] one time Sage Krishna Dwaipayana Vyasa came to visit Gandhari in Hastinapur. She took great care of the comforts of the great saint and saw that he had a pleasant stay in Hastinapur. The saint was pleased with Gandhari and granted her a boon. Gandhari wished for one hundred sons who would be as effective as her husband. Dwaipayan Vyasa granted her the boon and in due course of time, Gandhari found herself to be pregnant. But two years passed and still, the baby was not born. Meanwhile, Kunti received a son from Yama whom she called Yudhishthira. After two years of pregnancy, Gandhari filed birth to a hard constituent of lifeless flesh that was non a baby at all. Gandhari was devastated as she had expected a hundred sons according to the blessing of Rishi Vyasa. She was approximately to hold away the ingredient of flesh while Rishi Vyasa appeared and told her that his blessings could not hold been in vain and requested Gandhari to arrange for one hundred jars to be filled with ghee. He told Gandhari that he would design the piece of flesh into a hundred pieces and place them in the jars, which would then establishment into the one hundred sons that she so desired. Gandhari told Vyasa then that she also wanted to have a daughter. Vyasa agreed, grouping the piece of flesh into one hundred and one-pieces, and placed them regarded and subjected separately. into a jar. After two more years of patient waiting the jars were manner up to be opened and were kept in a cave. Bhima was born a day after Duryodhana was born thus making him younger than him. Arjuna, Nakula, and Sahadeva were born after Duryodhana was born.