Editing Pandu (section)

==Reign==
When it came time to nominate an heir, [[Vidura]] suggested that Pandu would be a better fit because he was not blind, unlike Dhritarashtra. Pandu became the successor to his kingdom and was crowned King of the [[Kuru kingdom]], with capital at Hastinapura.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Witzel |first=Michael |year=1995 |title=Early Sanskritization: Origin and Development of the Kuru state |journal=EJVS |volume=1 |issue=4 |url=http://www.ejvs.laurasianacademy.com/ejvs0104/ejvs0104article.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070611142934/http://www.ejvs.laurasianacademy.com/ejvs0104/ejvs0104article.pdf |archive-date=11 June 2007 }}</ref> Pandu conquered the territories of the [[Sindhu kingdom]], [[Varanasi|Kashi]], [[Anga]], [[Trigarta kingdom]], [[Kalinga (historical kingdom)|Kalinga]], [[Magadha (Mahajanapada)|Magadha]], etc., and thus re-established their supremacy over all the kings and increased the span of his empire.<ref>{{cite book|last=Menon|first=[translated by] Ramesh|title=The Mahabharata : a modern rendering|year=2006|publisher=iUniverse, Inc.|location=New York|isbn=9780595401871}}</ref>