I really enjoyed watching these videos. The pacing was really good and the illustrations were quite helpful.
Shantanu having to watch as his wife kills his first 7 children was really tragic and dark. His wife then tells him about the eight celestial spirits that he had promised to take into the world and immediately free them of mortality. She then left him and took the eighth son with her.
16 years later, King Shantanu was riding near the river, when he saw a mighty archer tame the river with arrows. The archer was his long lost son, Devavrat. The king brought him back to his kingdom as the prince.
Shantanu then fell in love with a fisherman's daughter, but her father refused. He knew that their children would always be second to King Shantanu's children. Prince Devavrat visits the fisherman having seen his father's sadness. Devavrat swore an oath that he would never marry or father any children so that the fisherman would allow his daughter to marry Shantanu. He became known as Bhishma.
When the prince revealed what had happened to his father, Shantanu was upset. He granted his son a boon that he could choose when he dies.
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| Statue of Bhishma Wikipedia Commons |
Bibliography: Epified Mahabharata, Part A
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