About the Book
The author Sivkishen Ji adapted the present work The Greatest Amazing Stories Book-4 from the Sanskrit Slokas. This is full of Indian legends, fairy tales, and folktales. These reflect on many facets of life-love, intrigue, separation, reunion, cleverness, valour, and might. The underlying theme is one-triumph of the righteous and sagacious! This work licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 License and Content is available under CC-BY-SA. The images licensed under the Categories: Satyavati; Kathasaritsagara; Amazing Vedic Wisdom; Amazing Stories; Mythological Classical Epics and displayed athttps: //sivkishen.fandom.com/wiki/Special: Images. Gunadhya in his work Kathasaritsagara detailed that Goddess Parvati brimming with confidence sat by his side and told him, "Oh Lord of Lords! Oh, master of the universe! Oh master, please tell me who fathered Devavrata of Hastinapur?" Lord Shiva replied, "Oh Goddess Parvati! Thy elder sister gave birth from the King Shantanu as I incarnated and bore the divine child Asta Vasu and Devavrata, the eight Vasu Prabhas, I after married Ganga as promised during the churning of Ocean." Goddess Parvati was much pleased, hugged Lord Shiva, and said, "Glad I am, as our son Devavrata is key of the Mahabharata." Lord Shiva explained about Brahma's curse given to Mahabhisha and Ganga. He was pleased with Mahabhisha's acts of austerity blessed him, incarnated as Shantanu, married Ganga gave birth to Asta Vasus who cursed by Vasishtha to be born on earth as mortal humans however when they pacified him, he limited his curse and told them that they would be freed from their birth as Ganga drown the seven sons. Ganga to train the eighth son Bhishma at heavens, return him to Shantanu. Satyavati was a strong-headed beautiful woman, begot Vyasa from Sage Parashara. He divided the one Veda into several branches and sub-branches, seeing that the people, in general, were less intelligent. Later, she married King Shantanu bore two sons Chitrangada and Vichitravirya. After Shantanu's death, she and her prince sons with the help of Bhishma ruled the kingdom. Although both her sons died childless, she arranged for her first son, Vyasa, to father Dhritarashtra and Pandu became the fathers of the Kauravas and Pandavas respectively from the two widows of Vichitravirya through niyoga. There is much more to know... read nowThe author lucidly detailed Gunadhya's amazing stories of Kathasaritsagara on Goddess Ganga, King Shantanu and Rishi Parashara, Satyavati and their children. He lucidly dealt on a few principle characters include Vyasa, father of Pandu and Dhritarashtra, Ganga mother of Bhisma, Satyavati mother of Vyasa, Santanu father of Chitrāngada and Vichitravirya, Parasara father of Vyasa, Lord Krishna, Ambalika, Amba, Bhishma, Drona, Dhritarashtra, Gandhari, Arjuna, Draupadi, Kunti, Karna, Abhimanyu, Babruvahana, Ashwathama, Barbarika, and Iravan etc. He detailed the struggle between two groups of cousins in the Kurukshetra War and the fates of the Kaurava and the Pandava princes and their succession. He brought out Bhagavad Gita magnificently imparted by Lord Krishna to Arjuna. It is the crux of all Vedas, Puranas and other holy books. The 18 chapters of Bhagavad Gita are segregated into three main categories include Karma Yoga, Bhakti Yoga and Jnana Yoga. This Transcendental Knowledge of the Soul achieved when seeker freed from attachment, fear, and anger, and fully absorbed into the divine. True knowledge comes as the fruit of selfless devotional-action. This work employs the story within a story structure, otherwise known as frame tales, popular in many Indian religious and non-religious works. These Amazing Stories are capable of offering guidance in the form of a fable; it is up to the individual to apply the lesson portrayed properly within the context of their life's situations.
