Pandu

Pandu
A late 17th-century painting of Pandu (right) and Kunti from Kashmir
Maharaja of Kuru
Predecessor	Vichitravirya
Successor	Dhritarashtra
Spouses	Kunti Madri
Issue	Yudhishthira by Yama (from Kunti) Bhima by Vayu (from Kunti) Arjuna by Indra (from Kunti) Nakula by Nasatya (from Madri) Sahadeva by Darsa (from Madrii)
House	Hastinapura
Dynasty	Kuruvamsha-Chandravamsha
Father	Vyasa
Mother	Ambalika

Pandu (Sanskrit: पाण्डु, romanized: Pāṇḍu, lit. 'pale') was the king of Kuru Kingdom, with capital at Hastinapur in the epic Mahabharata. He was the foster-father of the five Pandavas, who are the central characters of the epic.^[1]

Pandu was born pale, to Vichitravirya's second wife, Ambalika. Pandu married to Kunti. Following sage Kindama's curse, his sons were born through the boons bestowed upon his wife Kunti by a number of deities, owing to his inability to bear children.^[2]