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Ambalika was the daughter of King of Kashi and wife of Vichitravirya, King of Hastinapur.Along with her sisters Amba and Ambika, she was taken by force by Bhishma from their Swayamvara. (Bhisma challenged the assembled Kings and Princes and defeated them.) He presented them to Satyavati for marriage to Vichitravirya.
After Vichitravirya's death his mother Satyavati sent for her first born, Rishi Ved Vyasa. On his mother's wishes, he visited both the wives of Vichitravirya to grant them a son. Ambalika was instructed by Satyavati to keep her eyes open less she would bore a blind son like Ambika (Dhritarashtra). She did keep her eyes open but she became pale after seeing the formidable form of the Sage. Hence her son, Pandu the father of Pandavas, was born pale.
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