query: mother vichitravirya
supports: Duryodhana is a major character in the Hindu epic "Mahabharata" and was the eldest of the Kauravas, the hundred sons of blind king Dhritarashtra and Queen Gandhari. Despite being the first born son of the incumbent king, he becomes disqualified as heir to the throne of Hastinapura upon the return of his cousins, the Pandavas, who left their rural forest dwelling upon the death of their father Pandu, the preceding king of Hastinapura and younger brother to Dhrithrashtra. His resultant animosity towards his cousins renders Duryodhana the chief antagonist of the epic. Karna was the closest friend of Duryodhana. Notably, Duryodhana, with significant assistance from Karna, performs Digvijaya Yatra when the Pandavas are in exile, conquering all kings in every direction of the world, establishing himself as the emperor of the world. In the epic Mahabharata, Chitrngada (), is the elder son of Shantanu and Satyavati. He ascended the throne of Hastinapura after his father's death, but was killed by a Gandharva namesake. In the epic Mahabharata , Vichitravirya ( Sanskrit :  , vicitravrya ) is the younger son of queen Satyavat and king atanu and grandfather of the Pandavas and Kaurava . His elder brother , Chitrngada , had initially succeeded their father to the throne of Hastinapura , but when he died childless , Vichitravirya succeeded him . Vichitravirya was still a child when he was crowned king , hence Bhishma ruled as his regent . When the young king reached the proper age to marry , Bhishma searched for a suitable bride for him . He heard that the king of Kasi was holding a swayamvara for his three daughters . Since Vichitravirya himself was yet too young to stand any chance of being chosen by the young women , Bhishma himself went to the swayamvara . Bhishma won the swayamvara and brought the Princesses Amba , Ambika and Ambalika to marry Vichitravirya . But Amba had already given her heart to Salva , therefore Ambika and Ambalika were married to Vichitravirya . Shortly after his marriage , Vichitravirya died of tuberculosis . As he had died without an heir , Bhishma was asked by Satyavat to produce the next generation of Kurus through Vichitravirya 's wives , Ambika and Ambalika . But Bhishma declined this as he had already vowed to remain celibate for life . He instructed Satyavat to instead summon Satyavat 's other son Vyasa to father grandchildren for her through niyoga dharma . Ambika subsequently gave birth to Dhritarashtra , while Ambalika bore Pandu . Even though Vyasa fathered the children , he used his yogic powers to make the children sons of Vichitravirya . Dussasana, also spelled as Dushasana and Dushyasana, was a Kaurava prince, the second son of the blind king Dhritarashtra and Gandhari and the younger brother of Duryodhana in the Hindu epic "Mahabharata". Yuyutsu in the Hindu epic "Mahabharata" was a son of Dhritarashtra with Sughada, Gandhari's maid. Conceived under the fear that Gandhari couldn't produce any children, he was as old as Duryodhana and the rest of the 99 Kuru brothers and Dushala. Eventually, he was the only son of Dhritarashtra who survived the Kurukshetra war.  Satyavati (also spelled Satyawati) was the queen of the Kuru king Shantanu of Hastinapur and the great-grandmother of the Pandava and Kaurava princes (principal characters of the Hindu epic Mahabharata). She is also the mother of the seer Vyasa, author of the epic. Her story appears in the Mahabharata, the Harivamsa and the Devi Bhagavata Purana. Sanskrit (English pronunciation:; written in Devanagari script ; : or ', originally ', "refined speech") is the primary sacred language of Hinduism and "Mahyna" Buddhism, a philosophical language in Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism and Sikhism. It was also a literary language that was in use as a "lingua franca" in ancient and medieval South Asia. It is a standardised dialect of Old Indo-Aryan, originating as Vedic Sanskrit and tracing its linguistic ancestry back to Proto-Indo-Iranian and Proto-Indo-European. Today it is listed as one of the 22 scheduled languages of India and is an official language of the state of Uttarakhand. As one of the oldest Indo-European languages for which substantial written documentation exists, Sanskrit holds a prominent position in Indo-European studies. Kaurava is a Sanskrit term, that refers to the descendants of Kuru, a legendary king who is the ancestor of many of the characters of the Mahbhrata. The well-known Kauravas are Duryodhana, Dushasana, Vikarna, Yuyutsu and Dussala.
candidates: asia gandhari satyavati
answer: satyavati