持国（梵文：धृतराष्ट्र dṛtarāṣṭra）在摩诃婆罗多中是哈斯蒂纳普尔的国王。

在名义上，持国是福身王的次子奇武王的儿子，但实际上是福身王皇后贞信与前夫之子广博，与奇武王的皇后安必迦所生的儿子，因为福身王的儿子奇武王及花钏王早逝，福身王的皇后贞信为免绝后，因此要求毗耶娶了奇武王的两位遗孀。

另一位因此以出生的是般度，两人名义上是兄弟，血缘上同父异母。持国自出生就双目失明，传说因为持国的母亲在生产他时，见到广博，难忍广博身上的异味而闭上眼，持国因此出身便是瞎子，亦因为这个原因，弟弟般度继承王位，持国要等般度死后才能成为国王，后来又因般度的儿子般度族与持国和健陀国公主甘陀莉的儿子难敌等俱卢族争夺王位，引发了俱卢大战。俱卢大战后，俱卢族大败，持国亦死于森林大火。

In the Mahabharata, Dhritarashtra (Sanskrit: धृतराष्ट्र, dhṛtarāshtra; lit. "a good king") is the King of Hastinapur at the time of the Kurukshetra War, the epic's climactic event. He was born the son of Vichitravirya's first wife Ambika, and was fathered by Veda Vyasa. He was blind from birth, and became father to a hundred and one sons (and one daughter) by his wife Gandhari (Gāndhārī). These children, including the eldest son Duryodhana, came to be known as the Kauravas. Dhritarashtra was half-brother of Pandu and Vidura, and was uncle to the five Pandavas, with whom his sons fought the Kurukshetra War. Throughout his reign as King of Hastinapur, Dhritarashtra was torn between the principles of dharma and his love for his son Duryodhana, and often ended up endorsing his son's actions merely out of fatherly love. Thus Dhritarashtra essentially presided over the fall of Hastinapur's kingdom. All of his sons perished in the war, with the exception of Yuyutsu, his son with Gandhari's lady-in-waiting Sughada, who fought on the Pandava side. Dhritarashtra appears in Mahābhārata sections that have been circulated as separate scriptures, most notably the Bhagavad Gita, whose dialogue was narrated to him.