Kunti's Boons and her sons through it.

Kunti’s Boons and Sons.

Once Durvasa the angry sage visited the Palace of Kuntibojan  and he was welcomed by the King and requested to stay in his palace for some time and extended him a nice treatment.

The king had asked his daughter Kunti to look after the sage and take care of all his needs. Kunti was the daughter of Soora and was initially christened as Birutha. She  was adopted by Kuntibojan  as he did not have any child of his own and rechristened her  as Kunti. Soora was a grand father to Lord Krishna.

 Kunti was so courteous and obedient and provided  a  good and luxurious treatment to Durvasa The sage was so happy and enamoured by this service he gave her a boon by  which she could exercise any time to have  sons from any of the five gods of Indra, Vayu, Yama, Sun ,Aswani brothers. Durwasa could visualise  that Kunti would  have problem in having sons from her Husband.

As Kunti was very young and immature she immediately used  boon and called the God of Sun and immediately the Sun God came before her. She was terrified and told him to go back. But Sun god said since he was called to come to father a son to her he could not go just like that and he gave her a son and said after the delivery of the son Kunti would again become a virgin. So Kunti immediately delivered a male child and as she was not married she put the child into a Box with all the ornaments, a shawl and left him in the river. This child was found and saved by a Charioteer of the Kauravas and was christened as Karna who was a valiant warrior who fought with the Kauravas and died in the battle field of Kurushetra later.

After the marriage of Kunti with the Pandava King Pandu this boon came to her help as king Pandu had a curse which forbid him from making contact with any woman and as per the curse,  once he came into contact with a woman he would die.

So Kunti used the boons to have sons of Dharma or yama ,  Vayu  and Indra who were christened as Udhishtra, Bheema and Arjun. She gave the last boon to Madhuri, the second wife of Pandu who used it to get two sons Nahul and Sahadev from the Aswini brothers.

So Pandu had six sons through the Gods to have his family tree of Pandavas out of which one, Karna was left in the river . Karna who was the eldest son of Kunti only was separated from her and went to the Kaurava side because Duryodhana  favoured him as a challenge and equla to Arjun and made him the King of Anga, a state of Kauravas kingdom.