Ganesha is the lord of beginnings.
Story of kings and queens.
Story of heroes and villans.
Story of a war that swallowed the continent.
Temple building became an art from in India at the time of the Mahabharata.
It is a epic that shows how karma functions.
Shantanu fell in love with the princess Ganga and they got married.
The lovestruck king agreed to her harsh terms to never question her decisions.
Queen Ganga drowned her first 7 children.
Shantanu finally questioned her when she had the 8th.
Then she told him about the Vasus she agreed to set free from the mortal world.
She left him and took their only son.
He found his son Devavrat shooting arrows into the Ganges river. He was overjoyed.
Devavrat had learned the art of war from a sage. He also acquired great knowledge.
Shantanu brought his son back to the kingdom to be the new prince.
King Shantanu fell in love with a new woman. She was a fisherman's daughter named Satyavati.
He asked her to marry him but she said no because her sons would never be king because of Devavrat.
He suffered and started negleting his kingdom.
Devavrat went to the fisherman and tried to reason with him to sooth his father's pain.
The fisherman said no no matter what Devavrat said.
Devavrat spoke a vow that he would never marry. This would eventually lead to a gigantic war. This was for the sake of his father's happiness.
Devavrat from then on became known as Bhishma.
The fisherman then let his daughter marry the king.
Bhishma went to his father thinking that he would be happy but he was not.
The good thing that came out of this was Bhisma was able to decide the time of his death.
Death could not come whenever it wanted to. It was his choice.
Bhishma kept his promise and Hastinapur remained peaceful under his watch.
Bibliography
The Mahabharata: Karmic Revolution by Epified TV
Image Information: A man who will never marry: Max Pixel
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