{"id":20,"date":"2025-04-04T12:11:49","date_gmt":"2025-04-04T12:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/samrudhikadam.in\/MyStories\/?p=20"},"modified":"2026-09-07T14:47:52","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T14:47:52","slug":"marriage-of-shantanu-and-ganga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/samrudhikadam.in\/MyStories\/2025\/04\/04\/marriage-of-shantanu-and-ganga\/","title":{"rendered":"MARRIAGE OF SHANTANU AND GANGA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While walking on the banks of the river Shantanu saw a beautiful maiden, Ganga, charmed by her beauty he proposed Ganga for marriage. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And the same happened with the next 6 children too. When she was about to drown the 8th child, Shantanu stopped her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Loved this story? Read it in the book!<\/strong><br>This story is a part of my published book, <em>Epic Tales with Samrudhi<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>To get your copy, feel free to mail me at<\/strong> <a href=\"mailto:hello@samrudhikadam.in\"><strong>hello@samrudhikadam.in<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/samrudhikadam.in\/MyStories\/2025\/04\/04\/marriage-of-shantanu-and-ganga\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;MARRIAGE OF SHANTANU AND GANGA&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/samrudhikadam.in\/MyStories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/samrudhikadam.in\/MyStories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/samrudhikadam.in\/MyStories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samrudhikadam.in\/MyStories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samrudhikadam.in\/MyStories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/samrudhikadam.in\/MyStories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":298,"href":"https:\/\/samrudhikadam.in\/MyStories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions\/298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/samrudhikadam.in\/MyStories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samrudhikadam.in\/MyStories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samrudhikadam.in\/MyStories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}