COMMENTARIAT COMICS VOLUME I

Duryodhana
Purana

The Curse of the One Hundred Sons

A dark-fantasy manga tragedy. The Mahabharata told through the eyes of Princess Gandhari.

Duryodhana Purana — Volume I cover. Princess Gandhari, blindfolded, in a black lace gown.

Story by Commie Mark  ·  Art by Vineet Kumar

THE CURSE // THE BEGINNING 01

A tragedy before the war

One hundred
sons.

Long before Kurukshetra, before the throne of Hastinapur was contested, there was a child in a flower-filled meadow and a stranger who called her special. He granted her a boon. He did not warn her what it would cost.

Duryodhana Purana is the untold origin of the Kauravas — a dark-fantasy retelling of the Mahabharata that traces the first thread of ruin to its source: a girl's quiet kindness, met with a god's cruel generosity. From that single moment unspools a princess's blindfold, a kingdom's heir, and a hundred brothers who will one day burn a dynasty to the ground.

THE BOON // GANDHARI 02

A blessing,
of sorts.

The meadow where everything begins.

A page from Duryodhana Purana — a mysterious figure grants young Gandhari a boon: one hundred sons.

A child who does not flinch. A wandering sage who smiles too wide. "May the number of your seed be plentiful. You will be blessed with one hundred sons in this lifetime." She says thank you. She does not yet know that a hundred sons is a weight no mother was meant to carry.

THE PROPOSITION // HASTINAPUR 03

An heirless throne

The Kuru line
needs sons.

King Subala receives Bhishma's proposal — a marriage to secure the Kuru succession.

Bhishma rides to the court of King Subala with a proposition. Gandhari's hand for the sightless prince Dhritarashtra. A kingdom's heir in exchange for a daughter. The negotiator is forceful; the father has little choice. The daughter has none.

THE VOW // GANDHARI 04

In protest,
she blindfolded herself.

A vow never to remove it.

Gandhari ties the blindfold that she will wear for the rest of her life — a vow of grief and solidarity.

If her husband would not see the world, neither would she. A silk strip, a quiet vow — and the mother of the Kauravas spends the rest of her life in willed darkness, feeling for the shape of the sons the god promised her, and the shape of what they will become.

THE BOOK 05

About

Thirty pages
of ink and ruin.

Format
Manga / comic book
Pages
30+ pages of black-and-white ink
Series
The Curse of the One Hundred Sons — Volume I
Universe
The Krishna Kid Universe
Publisher
Commentariat Comics
Launch price
₹180
THE AUTHORS 06

Created by

A writer.
An artist.
A tragedy.

Story

Commie Mark

Writer of the Krishna Kid universe. Threads the oldest tragedy on earth back to its smallest, cruelest moment.

Art

Vineet Kumar

Ink, shadow, silence. Draws grief as a landscape and gods as the people who ruin it.

Publisher

Commentariat Comics

Independent dark-fantasy imprint. Home of the Krishna Kid universe.

COMMENTARIAT COMICS // ISSUE 01

Duryodhana Purana

The first volume is here. The hundred sons are waiting.

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