Sun of Mahabharata

Hastinapur -1

Now my king it's your turn to explain what is going on?

What!  asked Akash but Guru Dev how can start explaining in the middle of your story. No, please Guru Dev I don't know the story properly from here I will tell from where I know only.  He answered meekly.

No, my boy, I am not telling you to jump in-between my story but asking you to explain the political history of your kingdom to me.

Ooh ok! he said, but soon realizes what he asking him to do. what??? no..no Please Guru Dev anything but that. The dirty political history of my kingdom is so complicated and entangled that it is not even sad anymore but just ridicules. He resorted to saying.

I know my king and that is exactly why I am asking you to explain to me, as I seem to have forgotten some important details. Rishi Jii said as though teasing him knowing that Akash was weak in political history. Akash wanted to escape from this but was given no room by his excellent Guru. so he chooses to go with the flow.

The story starts with king Shantanu when he decided that only his lineage will rule the future...

Wait, wait a second is this how you will explain so dull, so simple. what kind of spokesperson would you be in court then explain with passion and heart and masala. said rishi Vikram. 

while Akash though as there isn't enough masala already in here? and so he starts again with mirch masala this time.

The story starts as all stories do Guru Jii (says while straining his voice)

with LOVE!!

Yes, now we are taking something important, in busted Vikram again. Guru Jii let me, please continue uninterrupted for two minutes at least. said Akash. For which Vikram apologizes and tells him to go on.

AS I was saying, love is where it all starts. 

The ruler and protector of Hastinapur were, King Shantanu at that time. With a powerful claim at the throne and with no rivals in the land, he was able to secure his borders, and with policies that were made to help people, he was also praised as kind and generous.

But no matter how great he was, or smart he was he also fell prey to the disease that many other rulers had before fallen into and secure their downfall.

LOVE. The power of love is a mystery to me as well.

It's pure, innocent, and forgiving on one hand, and on the other, it's a drug, leverage for your enemy to use against you, and it's corrupted. Yes, it corrupts.

it fills you with emptiness and leaves you with a hollow heart, Such is Love. and our King was so madly in love as all say they are.

He fell for a goddess. And surprisingly he fell for non-other than Devi Ganga.

I don't think I have to tell you what happens next. They looked at each other and felt the same thing. and They wasted no time getting married,

but then she asked him to never question her judgment or he would lose her forever, he simply agrees. He fears losing her,

but when he sees her drowning one by one seven children that she bore him they had, that was enough. he could watch no more and stopped her from killing their eighth children and thus he lost her.

Before leaving Ganga only promised him that he would return a worthy king. 

Later on, she named him Devrath son of Ganga. And trained him in the heavens along with the Gurus of gods and asuras. Guru Parasuram taught him the art of fighting. and when he was ready he was told truth about his birth. And true to Ganga's word she sends him back to Hastinapura to rule as king.