Vaishampayana said : O descendant of Pandu, your question is just. I shall tell you how it happened. The great ascetic, the illustrious Rishi himself, sprinkled that ball of fresh with cool water and begin to divide it into hundred parts, O king, as it was being divided into parts, the nurse began to take them up and put them one by one into the jars filled with ghee. In the meanwhile the beautiful and chaste Gandhari of rigid vows, feeling the affection for a daughter. Reflected in her mind, there is no doubt that I shall have one hundred sons. The Rishi had said this and it cannot be otherwise. If a daughter is born to me over and above my one hundred sons, I shall be exceedingly happy.