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Shantanu was overjoyed with the return of his son that he performed 7 Ashwamedha Yagnas on the banks of the river Yamuna. He crowned Devavrata as the prince who would become his successor.

While travelling near the banks of River Yamuna, Shantanu smelled an aromatic musk fragrance and he started to search for the root of the smell.

And he came across a young lady, Satyavati, he fell in love with her and asked her father Dasharaja, the Head of the Fishermen for Satyavati’s hand for marriage.

But he refused, saying that his son Devavrata and his lineage would become the Kings of Hastinapur.

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Devavrata or Gangaputra, was taken to different sages by his mother Ganga, for the purpose of gaining knowledge.

Parashurama, the 6th avatar of Lord Vishnu, the son of Sage Jamadagni, the guru of Devavrata and also of Dronacharya. Devavrata learnt the skills in warfare from Parashurama, Sage Vashishta taught him about the vedas and Lord Indra, the King of the Devas, gifted Devavrata celestial weapons. He was skilful and had immense knowledge.

Once while talking a stroll, Shantanu saw that the flow of the river was shallow while looking for the reason he noticed that a young boy had built a dam with arrows using his celestial weapons.

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While walking on the banks of the river Shantanu saw a beautiful maiden, Ganga, charmed by her beauty he proposed Ganga for marriage.

Ganga accepted his proposal upon one condition- That he must never question her about any of her actions. As he was in love, he thought it would be a small request after all and agreed immediately.

They lived a happy Married life, and soon Ganga was pregnant but as soon as the child was born, she drowned the new born baby in the river Ganga.

And the same happened with the next 6 children too. When she was about to drown the 8th child, Shantanu stopped her.

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After the curse, Ganga took a form of a beautiful maiden and approached Pratipa, the Kuru King of Hastinapur, who was meditating in the banks of the river Ganga. She sat on his right lap, and asked him become her husband.

As there was a custom that the daughter or daughter-in-law sits on the right thigh of a man, Pratipa proposed that, Ganga should wait until he had a son and marry him.

Pratipa was childless so at his old age along with his wife, Sunanda, he worshipped the gods and 3 children were born to him.

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Parashara was a renowned Author and a Maharishi because of his immense knowledge.

Once while crossing the river Yamuna, he came across a beautiful maiden, Satyavati who was also known as Matsya-Gandha (the one who smells like fish) was the daughter of the King of Chedi Kingdom, Uparicara Vasu, but the girl was raised as Kali (the one with dark complexion) by the fishermen chief, Dasharaja.

Parashara was smitten by her beauty and wanted a heir from her but she told him that she stank, so he used his powers and transformed her from smelling like a fish to smelling like musk.

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Mahabhisha was a powerful king of the Ikshavaku dynasty.

Because of his good deeds and by peforming thousands of Ashvamedha Yagnas and hundreds of Rajasuya Yagnas while being the King, he attained a place in heaven, and once visited Lord Bramha’s Court, where all the celestial beings along with Goddess Ganga was present.

While the celestials were worshipping Lord Brahma, a strong wind blew and it displaced Goddess Ganga’s clothes. Everyone bent their head, except for Mahabhisha.

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Sage Vashishta was the royal priest of the Raghu Dynasty which belonged to Lord Rama. Arundhati, wife of Vashishta used to help him in teaching the Vedas to his disciples.

In order to help Arundhati with her chores, Lord Brahma gifted them a wish fulfilling cow, Nandini, daughter of Kamadhenu.

One day, the 8 vasus (divine beings) after having a meal at Sage Vashistha’s house, went and told their wives about Nandini and Prabhasa, one of the vasus, provoked the other vasus, and attempted to steal Nandini from the Ashram as he wanted to gift it to his wife upon her desire.

When Sage Vashishta found out he cursed the vasus, that they would all be born on Earth.

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