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Chapter 2 - INTRODUCTION OF CHARTERS -2

BHISMA

SOME DEMI-HUMANS KNOWN AS VASU WERE TRAVELLING WITH THERE WIFES OF THE MOUNTAIN MERU . THEY ALL WERE ROAMING AND ENJOYING THE WEATHER . AFTER TRAVELING THEY WERE VERY TIRED AND STARTED FINDING A PLACE TO STAY FOR A WHILE SUDDENLY THEY SAW HOUSE OF A SAGE NAMED VASISTHA ON OF THE VASU NAMED GAO WAS ALSO TRAVELLING WITH HER WIFE WHEN HER WIFE SAW THE BEAUTIFUL COW OF SAGE SHE WANTED TO HAVE IT SO THEY STOLE THE COW. WHEN THE SAGE KNEW THAT HIS COW WAS STOLEN HE WAS VERY ANGRY ON THE VASUS BUT WHEN THEY APOLOGISE SAGE FORGIVED ALL OF THEM ACCEPT GAO HE CURSED HIM TO BORN AS A SIMPLE MAN ON EARTH .

THE BIRTH OF BHISMA

ON THE EARTH ONE DAY KING OF A KINGDOM IN INDIA NAMED SHANTANU WAS TRAVELLING ALONG THE RIVER SIDE SUDDENLY HE SAW A BEAUTIFUL LADY STANDING ON YHE RIVERSIDE HE FELL IN LOVE WITH THE WOMEN IN ONE SIGHT . HE PROPOSED THE WOMEN TO MARRY HER THE LADY REPLIED I WILL MARRY YOU ONLY IF YOU WOULDN'T ASK ANYTHING ABOUT WHAT I AM DOING SANTANU ACCEPTED IT IN A MERE MOMENT SOON AFTER THEIR MARRIAGE THEIR FIRST SON WAS BORN AND THAT LADY TAKEN THE CHILD AND FLOWED HIM IN RIVER ONE AFTER ANOTHER THE LADY FLOWED 7 OF HER CHILD BUT SANTANU DIDN'T ASK ANYTHING BUT WHEN SHE TRIED TO FLOW THE EIGHTH CHILD SHANTANU STOPPED HER AND ASKED THE REASON THEN THE LADY SAID I AM THE HUMAN FORM OF RIVER GANGA AND THESE CHILDS ARE VASUS AND I GIVE THEM FREEDOM FORM THEIR HUMAN FORM AND GONE AWAY WITH HER EIGHTH CHILD NAMED DEVVRAT.

REUNION WITH SON

ONE DAY SHANTANU SAW A MIRACLE HE SAW THAT THE RIVER WAS NOT FLOWING WHEN HE GET CLOSER HE SAW A BOY WAS STOPPING THE RIVER WITH HIS ARROWS HE WAS PLEASED AND ASKED THE BOY HIS NAME SUDDENLY LADY GANGA APPEARED AND TELL HIM THAT ITS YOUR SON DEVVRAT HE HAD BECOME A GREAT WARRIOR HE IS ALSO THE DISCIPLE OF PARSURAM . SANTANU WAS VERY HAPPY

AND TAKEN HIS CHILD WITH HIM AND IN A VERY SHORT PERIOD DEVVART WAS GIVEN THE RULE OF KINGDOM BY SHANTANU

THE RIVERSIDE TRAGEDY

AGAIN ONE DAY SAHNTANU WAS TRAVELLING ON RIVERSIDE HE SAW A VERY BEAUTIFUL PRINCESS NAMED SATYAVATI ON THE RIVERSIDE . SANTANU FELLED FOR HER IN ONE SIGHT HE TAKE THE PROPOSEL TO MARRY HER BUT HER FATHER SAID THAT YOU CAN MARRY MY GIRL IF YOU WILL GIVE THE KINGDOM TO THE CHILD OF MY DAUGHTER .SHANTANU WAS SAD BECAUSE HE HAD GIVEN THE KINGDOM TO DEVVRAT . AFTER THAT DAY SHANTANU BECAME SAD. WHEN DEVVRAT KNEW HIS FATHER'S PAIN HE GOES TO SATYAVATI FATHER AND PROMISED THAT YOUR DAUGHTER SIN WILL BE THE KING FOR IS RIGID DISCIPLINE HE WAS KNOWN AS 'BHISMA'

. WHEN SHANTANU KNEW WHAT HIS SON HAD DONE HE PLEASED HIM AND GAVE HIM A BOON THAT HE WILL ONEY WHEN HE WISHES

SO THIS WAS THE BACKSTORY OF ONE OF THE MOST POWERFUL CHARACTERS IN THE BATTEL OF KURUKSHETRA . STAY TUNED