Book Eleven:  The Women

King Dhritarashtra and Queen Gandhari mourn the loss of their hundred 
sons.  They come out of Hastinapur along with the palace ladies to see 
their dead family on the battlefield.  Judhishthir goes to welcome the 
king by touching his feet.  Dhritarashtra embraces Judhishthir but he 
builds up his anger from Bhim who killed his sons.  Krishna pushes Bhim 
out of the way and replaces him with a iron statue of Bhim.  
Dhritarashtra embraces the iron statue with great strength and it 
breaks into fragments.  Dhritarshtra mourns for Bhim when Krishna tells 
him the truth about the iron statue.  Dhritarashtra realizes that now 
he has no sons and that his happiness lies in the hands of his nephews. 
  He embraces Bhim and the the other brothers.  They next go to 
Gandhari who was ready to curse Judhishthir.  The talk to her and she 
forgives the Pandavas.  The Pandavas, Krishna along with all the ladies 
go to the battlefield to see thier family.  Gandhari hears the wails of 
the palace ladies as they see their dead husbands and sons.  Gandhari 
curses Krishna who she feels cold have stopped the war.  She says 
thirty six years from now he will kill his own kinsmen like the 
Pandavas and Kauravas did theirs.

They all decide to have a mass funeral for all the thousands that had 
died.  They have a mass cremation and preform all the rituals.  Kunti 
in her grief tells the Pandavas the truth about Karna.



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