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Gandhari married to a goat first (Jain Harivamsapurana)
Variant
Mangalik-style 'goat marriage' appears in a Jain Mahabharata.
Jain retellings, such as the Harivamsapurana, say astrologers predicted early widowhood for Gandhari's husband, so she is first married to a goat that is then sacrificed. Bhishma, on learning, imprisons Subala and his sons on starvation rations; only Shakuni survives to take revenge. Wikipedia: absent from the canonical epic.
Who: Gandhari, Subala, Shakuni, Bhishma
Bound to
Shakuni's dice from his father's bones causes
Places: Gandhara
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