(There are two different versions: either the deva would make love to her and she would miraculously, instantly, painlessly give birth or the deva would just give her the child: no sex, no pregnancy, just a baby.) She impressed him and he taught her a mantra enabling her to call any deva and have a son by him. While still a girl, she served the sage (rishi) Durvasa when he visited her father’s home. He credited Kunti’s presence considered her his lucky charm treated her as his daughter and was very devoted to her. Miraculously, shortly after her arrival in his home, the king was blessed with children.
In her earliest manifestations, Kunti may have been a wanton virgin, similar to Anat:notably even in the Mahabharata, her children are born of many fathers.Īccording to the Mahabharata, her birth name was Pritha but she was given as a daughter to childless King Kuntibhoja, whose name she bears. She bears children parthogenically, not because virginity is spiritually superior but because her fertility power is so strong, no partner is needed. In the Mahabharata, her powers are gifts of the devas, the deities but once upon a time, Kunti was the self-generating mother. Kunti’s powers are so intense that her very presence stimulates conception and painless childbirth. In her most primordial manifestation, she epitomizes female generative power in the way that Shiva represents corresponding male power. She is now most famous as an important character in the epic, the Mahabharata but her veneration may predate the Vedic texts. Kunti is an ancient goddess of fertility and wisdom, sister of Krishna’s father and hence his aunt.
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