bhishma ekadashi death story of bhishma

Death story of bhishma

v As the Kauravas   were losing the battle, The king  Duryodhana approached Bhishma one night and accused him of not fighting the battle to his full strength because of his affection  and love  for the Pandavas.

v Bhishma, greatly angered, immediately picked up five golden arrows  in his hand and chanted mantras declaring, "Tomorrow I will kill the Pandavas with these five golden arrows."

v Duryodhana, not having faith in Bhishma's words,and  asked Bhishma to give him custody of the five imbued golden arrows saying that he would keep them with him and return them the next morning.

v Long before, when Pandavas were in living in the forest, Duryodhana once came to the forest to flaunt his material opulence in contrast with the Pandavas who were living in exile due to his wicked usurption of their kingdom, thus displaying his venom and hubris

v . He placed his camp on the opposite side of a pond where the Pandavas used to stay.

v Once, while he was taking bath in that pond, the heavenly princes, named Gandharvas, came to take a bath.

v Duryodhana could not tolerate this he had a fight in which the Gandharvas captured him.

v On the request of Yudhisthir, Arjuna saved Duryodhana and set him free.

v Duryodhana was ashamed, but being a kshatriya, he asked Arjuna what benediction  he would like.

v Arjuna replied that he would ask for the boon later when he needed it.

v It was during that night that Krishna reminded Arjuna of his unsatisfied boon and told him to go to Duryodhana and ask for the five golden arrows

v . When Arjuna came and asked for the five golden arrows, Duryodhana was shocked, but knowing full well his honour and duty as a kshatriya declared, "I will give you the five golden arrows.

v But can you please tell me who told you the five golden imbued arrows existed in the first place?" Arjuna replied with a smile, " Shri Krishna" was tell to me

v Afterwards, Duryodhana honourably kept his word and gave the five golden arrows imbued with a lifetime of austerity and power by Bhishma.

v Later, Duryodhana conceded to himself privately, "All of the rishis say Krishna is the Supreme God, maybe they are right."

v Being shocked and convinced by Arjuna's knowledge of the very existence of the five golden arrows, Duryodhana secretly got on his knees and said a quick prayer to Krishna.

v Duryodhana again went to Bhishma, informing him of all that happened and requesting another five golden imbued arrows.

v To this Bhishma laughed and replied, That is not possible, child.

v The will of the Lord is Supreme and undeniable

v . I have already spent the merits of my lifetime of celibacy and austerity in those five arrows, a potency strong enough to end all the five Pandavas.

v I cannot imbue another five arrows, having spent all of the merits of my austerities.

v However, tomorrow I shall fight like a lion, and this time, either I will kill Arjuna or I will make Lord Krishna break His promise of not picking up any weapons during the war

v Although Arjuna was very powerful, he was no match for Bhishma.

v Bhishma soon shot arrows which cut Arjuna's armour and then also his Gandiva bow.

v As Bhishma was about to kill Arjuna with his arrows, Lord Krishna threw down the chariot reins and jumped off the chariot onto the battlefield, lifted a chariot wheel and charged Bhishma.

v Arjuna tried to stop Lord Krishna, but the Lord said, "In order to protect my devotee, I must break my own promise”.

v . Krishna, one who was a perfect Yogi and in control of senses including anger, lifted the Chariot Wheel in order to respect and uphold Bhisma's promise and word, as the latter promised he would make Krishna yield weapons

v Eventually, however, Arjuna convinced Krishna to return to the chariot and put down the wheel, promising to redouble his determination in the fight.

v All the while Bhishma stood with folded palms and tears in his eyes, awed by the beauty of the wrath of the Lord and the intense love that God bears for his friends, so great that He is willing to endure the censorship of ignorant foolish men.

v Later the Lord told Arjuna how he could bring down the old grandsire, through the help of Sikhandhi.

v Using Sikhandhi as a shield, Arjuna shot arrows at Bhishma, piercing his entire body.

v Thus, finally, Bhishma gave up the fight, focusing his life force and breath, sealing the wounds, and waiting for the auspicious moment to give up his body

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  బిష్ముడి యోక్క్క పేరు కథ

నిజానికి దేవవ్రతుడు  అనేది అతఃని పేరు, అతను భీష్మ ప్రతిజ్ఞ  తీసుకున్న తరువాత భీష్మ పిలవబడ్డాడు

తన తండ్రి, శంతనుడు ఒక మత్స్యకార  యువతీ సత్యవతిని  వివాహం చేసుకోవాలి అని అనుకుంటూ ఉన్నాడు  అని తెలిసి . అతను  అః వివాహం జరిపించే బాధ్యత తాను   స్వీకరించారు

. కానీ సత్యవతి తండ్రి  శంతనుడికి ఇప్పటికే ఒక కుమారుడు (దేవవ్రతుడు) ఐన నివు ఉన్నావ్ నివే రాజు వి అవుతావ్ నా  కుమార్తె యొక్క పిల్లలు పాలకులు కాలేరు కనుక నేను నా కూతురుని    నీ తండ్రికి ఇవ్వలేను  అని  అంటదు   

అప్పుడు దేవవ్రతుడు అతనితో అల ఐతే నేను సింహాసనం  ఎక్కి రాజు ని అవను నీ కుమారతే కు పుట్టిన పిల్లలనే రాజు నీ చేస్తాను అన్న్తాడు 

అప్పుడు నీ పిల్లలు రాజ్యం కోసం న కూతురి పిల్లలతో యుద్ధానికి వస్తారు కదా అని అనుమానంగా అడుగుతాడు అప్పిడు దేవవ్రతుడు నేను న జీవితం లో పెళ్లి   చేసుకోను   ఆహాజన్మ బ్రమచారి గానే ఉండిపోతాను అని ప్రతిజ్ఞా చేస్తాడు  ఆపాది నుండి అతని పేరు భిశుముడి   గ మారింది    

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.NAME STORY OF BISHMA

Originally named Devavratha, he became known as Bhishma after he took the bhishana pratigya 

.he vow of life-long celibacy and of service to whoever sat on the throne of his father  

.He took this oath so that his father, Shantanu could marry a fisherwoman Satyavati

.Satyvati's father had refused to give his daughter's hand to Shantanu on the grounds that his daughter's children would never be rulers as Shantanu already had a son(Devratha).

This made Shantanu despondent and upon discovering the reason for his father's despondency, Devavratha  sought out the girl's father and promised him that he would never stake a claim to the throne, implying that the child born to Shantanu and Satyavati would become the ruler after Shantanu.

At this, Satyavati's father retorted that even if Devavratha gave up his claim to the throne, his (Devavratha's) children would still claim the throne.

 Devavratha then took the terrible vow of life-long celibacy, thus sacrificing his 'crown-prince' title and denying himself the pleasures of conjugal love

ganga story for the bishma orn

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Bishma birth story:

. Bhishma was born as the first son of the illustrious King Shantanu and Ganga.

 .Shantanu saw Ganga on the banks of River Ganga and enamoured of her beauty, asked her to marry him.

. She agreed but with the condition that Shantanu would never question her, no matter what her actions   if he ever broke his promise, she would leave him, never to be a part of his life again

. Shantanu readily agreed to this  condition and was  married to Ganga.

. Eight children were born to this union, the eighth of which was Bhishma himself.

.The seven siblings born before him were drowned by their mother Ganga in order to break their curse as they were incarnations of the aforementioned Vasus, who do not like to live the life of Humans.

.Shantanu silently bore the torture of watching his wife drown his offspring seven times.

.However, when Ganga was about to drown Bhishma, Shantanu could no longer contain his anguish and burst into protest.

. Ganga, aware of the eighth child's destiny to live a long life on earth, did not drown the child.

. However, since Shantanu had broken his promise given to her at marriage, she left Shantanu promising to return the child to him once he is grown up.

.During his time with his mother  Bhishma learnt political science from Brihaspati, the guru of the Devas, Vedas and Vedangas from RishiVasishta, and archery from Parashurama,  also known as Bhargava.

.He was also called  as 'Bhishma Pitamaha' (Pitamaha meaning the grandfather or grandsire) among the Pandavas and the Kauravas.

.He was a well known knowledgeable of Politics person

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THE BIRTH STORY OF BISHMA

·    .  The eight  Vasus ("Ashtavasus") was visited Vashishta's ashram accompanied by their wives.vashishta have one cow nandini it gives the all food items for vashishta

·         . One of the wives took a fancy to Nandini, Vashishta's wish-bearing cow and asked her husband Prabhasa to steal it from Vashishta.

·         Prabhasa then stole the cow with the help of the others who were all consequently cursed by Vashishta to be born in the world of men.

·         Upon the Vasus appealing to Vashishta's mercy, the seven Vasus who had assisted in stealing Nandini had their curse mitigated such that they would be liberated from their human birth as soon as they were born;

·         however, Prabhasa being protagonist of the theft, Dojem was cursed to endure a longer life on the earth.

·         The curse, however is softened to the extent that he would be one of the most illustrious men of his time.

It was this Prabhasa who took birth as Devavrata 

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Amba atory related to bishm

Bhishma was a great archer and a warrior. In the process of finding a bride for his half-brother the young king Vichitravirya,

  Bhishma cleverly abucted the princesses  Amba, Ambika and Ambalika of Kashi (Varanasi) from the assemblage of suitors at their swayamvara.

Salwa, the ruler of Saubala, and Amba (the eldest princess) were in love.

Upon reaching Hastinapuram, Amba confided in Bhishma that she wished to wed Salwa.

 Bhishma then sent her back to Salwa who turned her down as it was humiliating for a man to accept a woman who had been so long in the company of another man

. She then naturally approached Bhishma for marriage who refused her, citing his oath.

 Amba, humiliated and enraged beyond measure, vowed to avenge herself against Bhishma  even if it meant being reborn over and over again.

Legend has it that at her maternal grandfather's suggestion Amba sought refuge with Parasurama who ordered Bhishma to marry Amba.

Bhishma politely refused saying that he was ready to give up his life at the command of his teacher but not the promise that he had made.

 Upon the refusal, Parasurama called him for a fight at Kurukshetra.

At the battlegrounds, while Bhishma was on a chariot, Parasurama was on foot

. Bhishma requested Parasurama to also take a chariot and armor so that Bhishma would not have an unfair advantage.

 Parasurama blessed Bhishma with the power of divine vision and asked him to look again

. When Bhishma looked at his guru with the divine eyesight, he saw the Earth as Parasurama's chariot, the four Vedas as the horses, the Upanishads as the reins, Vayu (wind) as the Charioteer and the Vedic goddesses Gayatri, Savitri & Saraswati as the armor.

  

Bhishma got down from the chariot and sought the blessings of Parasurama to protect his dharma, along with the permission to battle against his teacher.

 Parasurama was pleased and said to Bhishma that if he had not behaved in this manner, Parasurama would have cursed him, for it is the duty of warriors who fight against elders to not abandon the traditions of humility and respect for elders. Parasurama blessed him and advised him to protect his dharma of brahmacharya as Parasurama himself must fight to fulfil his dharma of fighting to uphold his word as given to Amba.

 They fought for 23 days without conclusion Parasurama was chiranjeevi (immortal) and Bhishma had a boon that let him choose the time of his death..

 His ancestors gave him a weapon which was not known to Parasurama. They told him that it would put Parasurama to sleep in the battlefield.

 However the weapon was never used as Devas warned him from the sky that "If He uses this weapon it would be a great insult towards his Guru"

Parshurama felt really proud of Bhishma but said "He will not walk away from the battlefield,

 either Bhishma has to kill him or he can withdraw".

Bhishma humbly walked out from the war and saying that" He was never interested to fight his Guru, he did it only because his Guru asked him to do so".

But Amba, now her predicament unchanged, did severe penance to please Lord Shiva(as he is most easily pleased and could give anything to anyone).

 Lord Shiva assured her that she would be born as a man in her next birth(and still she would recall her past) and will be instrumental in Bhishma's death, thus satisfying her vowed it

She is the named as SHIKANDI