Reading Notes: Mahabharata

Bhishma at the Swayamvara by Sister Nivedita
  • Bhishma is looking for a queen for his half brother,  Vichitravirya
  • King Benares, who has 3 daughters (Amba, Ambika, Ambalika), invites all the kings and knights from the land to come to his kingdom so that he may find a king for each of his daughters to marry
  • place was elegantly decorated 
  • His voice boomed loudly
  • he declared that he wouldn't participate in the Swayamvara, but that he would take the princesses by force, and fight off any other king that would try to seize them back
  • he scoops all three up on his chariot
  • with his bow, he manages to fight off all kings until they surrender 
  • He takes the three princesses back with him
Amba by Sister Nivedita 
  • Amba tells Bhishma just before the wedding that her true love is devoted to the King of the Shalwas, so she asks if she can leave Hastinapura and go to Shalwas to be reunited with her love
  • Bhishma agrees and sends her on her way
  • turns out the King of Shalwas is a real ass, and he doesn't want Amba anymore either, so he casts her out of the kingdom
  • Now Amba has nowhere to go
  • She goes into the forest to stay at a hermitage, where she fasts and prays for months until Shiva answers her and asks what she wants
  • She declares that this is all Bhishma's fault, so she asks if Shiva may grant her the wish of slaying Bhishma
  • Shiva tells Amba that in her next life she will become a man, a strong warrior, and will slay Bhishma
  • Amba decides to light herself on fire and becomes reincarnated
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