{"id":49,"date":"2025-05-15T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/samrudhikadam.in\/MyStories\/?p=49"},"modified":"2026-09-07T14:40:26","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T14:40:26","slug":"dhritarashtra-and-pandu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/samrudhikadam.in\/MyStories\/2025\/05\/15\/dhritarashtra-and-pandu\/","title":{"rendered":"DHRITARASHTRA AND PANDU"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dhritarashtra, Pandu and Vidura were trained by Bhishma and Kripacharya in military arts and vedic knowledge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dhritarashtra, through a boon given by Veda Vyasa, had the strength of hundred elephants. He was able to crush iron with his bare hands but due to his disability, he was unable to use weapons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pandu was known as a Maharathi, being an excellent archer. While Vidura, though being the half-brother of Dhritarashtra and Pandu, had a low status, as he was the son of a handmaiden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Loved this story? Read it in the book!<\/strong><br>This story is a part of my published book, <em>Epic Tales with Samrudhi<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>To get your copy, feel free to mail me at<\/strong> <a href=\"mailto:hello@samrudhikadam.in\"><strong>hello@samrudhikadam.in<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dhritarashtra, Pandu and Vidura were trained by Bhishma and Kripacharya in military arts and vedic knowledge. Dhritarashtra, through a boon given by Veda Vyasa, had the strength of hundred elephants. He was able to crush iron with his bare hands but due to his disability, he was unable to use weapons. Pandu was known as &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/samrudhikadam.in\/MyStories\/2025\/05\/15\/dhritarashtra-and-pandu\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;DHRITARASHTRA AND PANDU&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/samrudhikadam.in\/MyStories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/samrudhikadam.in\/MyStories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/samrudhikadam.in\/MyStories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samrudhikadam.in\/MyStories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samrudhikadam.in\/MyStories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/samrudhikadam.in\/MyStories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":280,"href":"https:\/\/samrudhikadam.in\/MyStories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions\/280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/samrudhikadam.in\/MyStories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samrudhikadam.in\/MyStories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samrudhikadam.in\/MyStories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}