O descendant of the Bharata race, having heard of the blindness of Dhritarashtra and that her parents had consented to bestow her (Gandhari) upon him. O king, ever-devoted to her husband, (Gandhari) bandaged her own eyes with cloth, gathered into many folds, out of her desire that she would not be wanting in respect and love for her husband. Thereupon, the son of the king of Gandhara, Shakuni bringing his beautiful and young and wellbehaved sister to the Kurus, formally gave her to Dhritarashtra.
गान्धारी त्वथ सुश्राव धृतराष्ट्रमचक्षुषम्। आत्मानं दित्सितं चास्मै पित्रा मात्रा च भारत॥ ततः सा पट्टमादाय कृत्वा बहुगुणं तदा। बबन्ध नेत्रे स्वे राजन् पतिव्रतपरायणा॥ नाभ्यसूयां पतिमहमित्येवं कृतनिश्चया। ततो गान्धारराजस्य पुत्रः शकुनिरभ्ययात्॥ स्वसारं वयसा लक्ष्या युक्तामादाय कौरवान्। तां तदा धृतराष्ट्राय ददौ परमसत्कृताम्। भीष्मस्यानुमते चैव विवाहं समकारयत्॥