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Gāndhārī may refer to:
- Gandhari (character), character in the Indian epic, Mahabharata
- Gāndhārī language, north-western prakrit spoken in Gāndhāra
- Gandhari script, also known as Kharoṣṭhī
- Ghandari people, who lived in Gandhara
- Gandhari (film), a 1993 Malayalam-language film
Gandhari is a prominent character in the Hindu epic the Mahabharata. She was the wife of Dhritrashtra, the blind king of Hastinapura, and the mother of a hundred sons, the Kauravas.
As a pativratha (devoted wife) without parallel, Gandhari is regarded as an epitome of virtue, and is among the most respected moral forces in the epic. She not only married a blind man, but at the time of her wedding, she resolved to spend the reminder of her life as a blind woman herself, in order to share the debility and pain of her husband. For the rest of her life, she kept a cloth tied to her eyes and thus deprived herself of the power of sight. At certain critical junctures, she gave advice to her husband which was impeccable from a moral standpoint; she never wavered in her adherence to dharma (righteousness), even to a very bitter end. She was fated to witness the death of all her hundred sons within the space of 18 days, during the Great War between them and their cousins; she then retired with her husband to spend her last days in a forest hermitage.
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Gandhari is a 1993 Malayalam film directed by Sunil. The film stars Madhavi and Siddique in the lead roles.
The film tells the story of a woman who wants to take revenge on the people who has once molested her.