Mahabhrata Reading Notes A

Upichara was a king that didn’t want children but was given a crystal car that could fly. While out flying his semen fell into a river and was eaten by a fish. When caugt by a fisherman two childeren suddenly appeared. - maybe do a story over the crystal car or from the fisherman’s perspective as he discovers the children (maybe his wife and him could not concieve).

Ganga was the goddess of the ganges river. She had promised the god Vasus, who had been cursed to be among men in 8 forms, that he may be born of her children and she would kill them all (to retirn Vasus to his god form) in exchange for 1/8 of his power onto her final son. Ganga marries king Shantanu with a promise that he will never disagree or say a mean thing to her, she proceeds to drown every child they have till on the eigth child the king bursts into anger and breaks his vow. - story from Shantanu watching his children be born and drown and his conflicted feelings in the mattwr, wife or kids?

Ganga showing her husband their son Devavrata from Wikimedia commons

Source. The Mahabharata, A Summary by John Mandeville Macfie (1921).

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Source. Indian Myth and Legend by Donald A. Mackenzie (1913)

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