Gandhari is a character in the
Hindu epic, the
Mahabharata. In the epic, she was an incarnation of Mati, the Goddess of Intelligence, as the daughter of Subala, the king of
Gandhara, or the modern
Kandahar(a region spanning northwestern
Pakistan and eastern
Afghanistan) from which her name is derived. Gandhari is also known as Gandhararajaduhita, Saubaleyi, Saubali, Subalaja, Subalaputri, Subalatmaja in the Mahabharata. Gandhari's marriage was arranged to
Dhritarashtra, the eldest prince of the
Kuru kingdom, a region in
Delhi and
Haryana region.