In the Hindu epic Mahabharata, Vidura, also known as Kshatri, plays a significant part. According to legend, he serves as the Kuru kingdom’s prime minister and is the uncle of both the Pandavas and the Kauravas.Through the union of the sage Vyasa and Parishrami, a handmaiden of the queens Ambika and Ambalika, Vidura was born. Due to her fear of Vyasa’s strength and appearance, Ambika first mated with him using the niyoga method while keeping her eyes closed. She thus gave birth to Dhritarashtra, who is blind. Ambalika, her sister, understood to keep her eyes open and afterwards performed the same procedure with Vyasa. She gave birth to the albino Pandu however, since she was so terrified during the niyoga .In the end, the queens substituted their maiden Parishrami, who behaved well during the niyoga procedure and gave birth to the remarkable Vidura. His rank, however, was always inferior to his two half siblings because his mother was a handmaiden rather than a queen. The queens were the wives of king Vichitravirya, the grandfather of the Kauravas and Pandavas who ultimately engaged in combat in the Battle of Kurukshetra, the Mahabharata’s pinnacle, when Krishna gave the Bhagavad Gita to Pandava prince Arjuna. Dhritarashtra and Pandu’s adopted father was King Vichitravirya. AVidura, the Pandavas’ most trusted advisor after Krishna, warned them repeatedly of Duryodhana’s schemes to eliminate them, including Duryodhana’s intention to burn them alive in the house of wax.
Books Info
| Books name | Bidura / ବିଦୁର |
| Author | Gobinda Dasasharma |
| No Of pages | 9 |
| Publisher | Shree Shree Ramachandradeba Maharaja |
| Publication | 1930 |
| Printed At | Arundhoya Press |
| Distributor | NA |