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  2. Shantanu - Wikipedia

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    Shantanu stops Ganga from drowning their eighth child, who later was known as Bhishma. Shantanu saw a beautiful woman on the banks of the river Ganga and asked her to marry him. She agreed but with one condition: that Shantanu would never ask any questions about her actions. They married and later she gave birth to a son. But she drowned the child.

  3. Satyavati - Wikipedia

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    The fisherman immediately gave Satyavati to Devavrata, who was henceforth called Bhishma ("the One whose vows are terrible"). Bhishma presented Satyavati to Shantanu, who married her. [1] [9] [10] [11] In the Devi Bhagavata Purana, Satyavati's premarital first-born, Vyasa, laments that his mother abandoned him to fate immediately after birth ...

  4. List of Puru and Yadu dynasties - Wikipedia

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    This battlefield before the birth of Bhishma, Shantanu and Pratipa was the Yagnabhumi (sacred place or sacrificial place or capital city of Kuru Kingdom) of this King in Dvapara Yuga. By the glory, zenith and name of this king the dynasty was hence the Kuru Dynasty and the kingdom was renamed from Paurava Kingdom to Kuru Kingdom.

  5. Ganga (goddess) - Wikipedia

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    Shantanu agreed and they married. They lived together peacefully and had eight sons who were the incarnation of the eight Vasus. They too had been cursed and had asked Ganga to end their life when they were born to her on earth. Due to their request, Ganga began drowning each son upon birth while Shantanu watched without questioning.

  6. List of Kuru kings - Wikipedia

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    a: Shantanu was a king of the Kuru dynasty or kingdom, and was some generations removed from any ancestor called Kuru. His marriage to Ganga preceded his marriage to Satyavati. b: Pandu and Dhritarashtra were fathered by Vyasa in the niyoga tradition after Vichitravirya's death. Dhritarashtra, Pandu and Vidura were the sons of Vyasa with Ambika ...

  7. Bhishma - Wikipedia

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    Shantanu stops Ganga from drowning their eighth child, who later was known as Bhishma. Painting by Raja Ravi Varma. Bhishma's birth and youth are mainly narrated in the Adi Parva book of the epic. He was the only surviving son of Shantanu, a king belonging to the lunar dynasty, and his first wife Ganga, a river goddess.

  8. Parents Found Guilty of Starving Ballerina Daughter to Keep ...

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    The father, meanwhile, pleaded guilty to forging his daughter's birth certificate to make her seem younger than she was. WA District Court. The ballerina whose parents starved her with a strict diet.

  9. Bhishma (1962 film) - Wikipedia

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    The film begins in the court of Brahma, where Mahabhisha & Ganga lures each other, and the lord curses them to be born as mortals Mahabhisha takes birth as Shantanu in the Kuru dynasty, meets Ganga, and knits her on a condition not to question her actions Time passes, and Ganga gives birth to 7 children and drowns them in the river During the turn of the eighth one, devastated, Shantanu ...