Vaishampayana said: -
1. The daughter of Kuntibhoja, Pritha, had large eyes; she was endued with beauty and every accomplishment; she was of rigid vows, devoted to virtue; and she possessed every good quality.
2. But through the maiden was effulgent and possessed beauty and all womanly qualifications and youth, yet no king sought for her hand.
3. O best of kings, thereupon, the king Kuntibhoja invited all the monarchs and offered her in a Svyamvara.
4. The intelligent Kunti saw that best of kings, the foremost of the Bharata race, Pandu, in the assembly of the kings.
5. Proud as the lion, broad-chested, bull eyed, greatly strong, like sun outshining all the kings in splendour.
6. He (Pandu) looked among the kings as the second Indra. In the assembly that best of men, Pandu, having seen the maiden of faultless feature, the amiable daughter of Kuntibhoja, became very much agitated in mind.
7. Kunti advanced in modesty, quivering with emotion and placed the nuptial garland round the neck of the king (Pandu).
8. Finding that Kunti had chosen Pandu, the other kings returned to their kingdoms on elephants, on horses and cars on which they had come.
9. O king, her father then performed the nuptial rites in due form. The descendant of Kuru (Pandu) and the daughter of Kuntibhoja (Kunti).
10. Blessed with great and good fortune, formed a couple like Indra and Sachi.O king, Kuntibhoja, after the marriage of Kunti
11. Presented the bridegroom with much wealth. O best of the Kuru race, the king (Kuntibhoja) then sent him (Pandu) to his own capital.
12. Accompanied by a large force, bearing various kinds of banners and pennons and eulogised and blessed by many Brahmanas and great Rishis.
13. The descendant of Kuru, king Pandu, reached his own capital and that lord (Pandu) established his wife Kunti there.
Thus ends the hundred and twelveth chapter, the marriage of Kunti, in the Sambhava of the Adi Parva.