Sanskrit

Proper noun

कुन्ती • ‎(****ī) f

1. Name of पृथा (daughter of a यादव prince named शूर [or वसु Hariv. 5255], who gave her to his childless cousin कुन्ति or कुन्तिभोज, by whom she was adopted ; she afterwards became one of the wives of पाण्डु ; on one occasion before her marriage she paid such respect to the powerful sage दुर्वासस् that he taught her an incantation or charm, by virtue of which she was to have a child by any god she liked to invoke ; out of curiosity she invoked the Sun, by whom she had a child cf. कर्ण ; but the Sun afterwards restored to her her maidenhood; soon after his marriage पाण्डु retired to the woods to indulge his passion for hunting ; there he killed a male and female deer, who turned out to be a ऋषि and his wife in the form of these animals ; the sage cursed पाण्डु and predicted that he would die in the embrace of one of his wives ; hence पाण्डु lived apart from कुन्ती, but with his approval she made use of her charm and had three sons, युधिष्ठिर, भीम, and अर्जुन, by the three deities धर्म, वायु, and इन्द्र respectively ; cf. माद्री) (Pāṇ., MBh.)
2. N. of a राक्षसी Buddh.
3. N. of a river VP.
4. the wife of a Brahman L.
5. the plant Boswellia thurifera L.
6. a fragrant resin (= गुग्गुलु) L.

Descendants

• English: Kunti
• Telugu: కుంతి ‎(kuṃti)