He was a master of the spear weapon, and a maharatha, capable of combating 10,000 opponents all together at a time. Yudhisthira was trained in religion, science, administration and military arts by the Kuru preceptors Kripa and Drona. If Karna, the son of Kunti born before her marriage by invoking Surya is counted, Yudhisthira would be the second-eldest of five Pandava brothers. Yudhisthira's four younger brothers were Bhima, (born by invoking Vayu) Arjuna, (born by invoking Indra) and the twins Nakula and Sahadeva, (born by invoking the Ashwini Gods). However, this claim was contested by the Dhritarashtra's son, Duryodhana. Being Pandu's eldest son, Yudhisthira was the rightful heir to the throne. Urged by Pandu to use her invocations, Kunti gave birth to Yudhisthira by invoking the Lord of Righteousness, Dharma. Each god, when invoked, would place a child in her lap. His mother, Queen Kunti, had in her youth been granted the power to invoke the Devas by Rishi Durvasa. Yudhisthira therefore was conceived in an unusual way. In additional penance for the murder, Pandu also abdicated the crown to his blind brother Dhritarashtra. Due to this curse, Pandu was unable to father children. Before he died, the Brahmin cursed the king himself to die at once, the minute he engaged in intercourse with one of his two wives. Yudhisthira's father Pandu, the king of Hastinapura, soon after his marriage accidentally shot a Brahmin and his wife, mistaking them for deer, while the couple were making love. Some sources describe him to be an adept warrior with the Spear. He was the principal protagonist of the Kurukshetra War, and for his unblemished piety, known as Dharmaraja (Most pious one). In the great Hindu epic Mahabharata, Yudhisthira was the eldest son of King Pandu and Queen Kunti, king of Hastinapura and Indraprastha, and World Emperor.
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