स तथा विदुरेणोक्तस् तैश् च सर्वैर् द्विजोत्तमैः ॥
न चकार तथा राजा पुत्रस्नेहसमन्वितः ॥
ततः पुत्रशतं सर्वं धृतराष्ट्रस्य पार्थिव ॥
मासमात्रेण संजज्ञे कन्या चैका शताधिका ॥
गान्धार्यां क्लिश्यमानायाम् उदरेण विवर्धता ॥
धृतराष्ट्रं महाबाहुं वैश्या पर्यचरत् किल ॥
तस्मिन् संवत्सरे राजन् धृतराष्ट्रान् महायशाः ॥
जज्ञे धीमांस् ततस् तस्यां युयुत्सुः करणो नृप ॥
एवं पुत्रशतं जज्ञे धृतराष्ट्रस्य धीमतः ॥
महारथानां वीराणां कन्या चैकाथ दुःशला ॥
sa tathā vidureṇoktas taiś ca sarvair dvijottamaiḥ ||
na cakāra tathā rājā putrasnehasamanvitaḥ ||
tataḥ putraśataṃ sarvaṃ dhṛtarāṣṭrasya pārthiva ||
māsamātreṇa saṃjajñe kanyā caikā śatādhikā ||
gāndhāryāṃ kliśyamānāyām udareṇa vivardhatā ||
dhṛtarāṣṭraṃ mahābāhuṃ vaiśyā paryacarat kila ||
tasmin saṃvatsare rājan dhṛtarāṣṭrān mahāyaśāḥ ||
jajñe dhīmāṃs tatas tasyāṃ yuyutsuḥ karaṇo nṛpa ||
evaṃ putraśataṃ jajñe dhṛtarāṣṭrasya dhīmataḥ ||
mahārathānāṃ vīrāṇāṃ kanyā caikātha duḥśalā ||
'Though thus counseled by Vidura and by all those foremost brahmins, the king, overcome by love for his son, did not act accordingly. Then all the hundred sons of Dhritarashtra, O king, were born within a single month, together with one daughter besides the hundred. While Gandhari suffered from her ever-swelling womb, a vaishya woman, it is said, attended upon mighty-armed Dhritarashtra; and that same year the wise Yuyutsu was born to her by Dhritarashtra, a son by a vaishya woman. Thus were born the hundred sons of wise Dhritarashtra, great warriors (maharathas), and one daughter besides -- Dushala.'
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Here the fateful choice of Dhritarashtra is made -- and in it lies the knot of all the ruin to come. Telling is the fact that the cause is named as 'love for his son' (putra-sneha): not malice, but blind parental attachment leads the king to disregard both the omens of heaven and the counsel of the wisest, and the good of the whole race. Here is a stern lesson about attachment (moha): even a natural feeling, when not subordinated to dharma and discernment, becomes a source of the greatest evil; one unconquered passion of a father will destroy millions on Kurukshetra. It is telling that the scripture repeatedly calls Dhritarashtra 'wise' (dhiman) -- and this makes it all the more bitter: to know dharma and not follow it out of partiality is worse than ignorance. Telling, too, is the mention of Yuyutsu, the son by the vaishya woman: the only one among Dhritarashtra's sons, he will cross over in the great war to the side of the Pandavas, to the side of dharma -- as though even in the house of the blind king one righteous offspring were preserved. Thus the scripture closes the story of the Kauravas' birth, placing at its center an unyielding truth: unconquered attachment, having spurned clear-sighted counsel, opens the gates to fate.