Originally posted by: Nandiniraizaada
Why would Kuniti be angry
She only taught the mantra to Madri as panda asked her for two more sons and according to the system of niyog it is only allowed thrice so kip unto taught it to Madri
Kunto was a calm caring and a devoted type of woman, she was the best stepmother anyone can have
i'm referring to this para the article
http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=7038
Kunti's determination to protect her interests, Satyavati-like, is brought to the fore when she flatly refuses Pandu's request to help Madri have more children. Despite the bravado he displays before Madri ("I know that if I ask Kunti/she will not refuse me"), Pandu slinks away before Kunti's fury:
"She deceived me", said Kunti.
"With one mantra I gave her,
she managed to get two sons.
I am afraid she will get
more sons than I. Scheming woman!
What a fool I was!
Had I known, I too
would have summoned the Ashvins,
and obtained twins.
Don't come to me again, my lord,
saying, Give her the mantra.'" (124.26-28)
There is also an element of jealousy in this, because in one-upwomanship Madri has consistently upstaged her.
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about kunti
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"Vaisampayana said, 'After the birth of Kunti's sons and also of the hundred sons of Dhritarashtra the daughter of the king of the Madras privately addressed Pandu, saying, 'O slayer of foes, I have no
complaint even if thou beest unpropitious to me. I have, O sinless one, also no complaint that though by birth I am superior to Kunti yet I am inferior to her in station. I do not grieve, O thou of Kuru's race, that
Gandhari hath obtained a hundred sons. This, however, is my great grief that while Kunti and I are equal, I should be childless, while it should so chance that thou shouldst have offspring by Kunti alone.
If the daughter of Kuntibhoja should so provide that I should have offspring, she would then be really doing me a great favour and benefiting thee likewise. She being my rival, I feel a delicacy in soliciting any favour of her. If thou beest, O king, propitiously disposed to me, then ask her to grant my desire.'
"Some time after, Pandu again requested Kunti on behalf of Madri. Addressed, O king, by her lord in private, Kunti replied, 'Having given her the formula of invocation only once, she hath, O king, managed
to obtain two sons. Have I not been thus deceived by her, I fear, O king, that she will soon surpass me in the number of her children. This, indeed, is the way of all wicked women. Fool that I was, I did not
know that by invoking the twin gods I could obtain at one birth twin children. I beseech thee, O king, do not command me any further. Let this be the boon granted (by thee) to me.'
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http://www.india-forums.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=3737558&TPN=40
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