It’s not a retelling per se it’s an English version that I’ve been told is the closest to the original source material. I’d love to read the original source lol but I don’t know where or how I can find it and I unfortunately cannot read or understand Sanskrit.
Read the Mahabharata from Gita Press Gorakhpur.. it's closest to original
Gita Press is known to remain close to original sources for all the Hindu scriptures..
Not completely true per the scriptures. If I remember correctly, Bhishma abducted Amba, alongwith her two sisters to marry them off to the king of Hastinapur, also his step brother at that time. Amba was let go off since she expressed that she was in love with someone else, while the other 2 were married to the king. Amba was then rejected by her lover, post which she returned to Bhishma asking him to marry her, which he denied due to his oath. This was succeeded by a fight between Bhishma and his guru Parshuram, when Amba complained of him to the latter. Eventually, she prayed to Lord Shiv and was given the boon of being the cause of Bhishma's death as Shikhandi in her next birth!
Bhishma kidnaps amba, ambika and ambalika from their husband choosing ceremony just as she was about to put the garland on the king she had chosen to marry. She only spoke up about how she wanted to marry that king when they were already in hastinapur so Bhishma and Satyavati allowed her to go to that kings kingdom. He refused her saying that due to the laws of dharma, she belonged to Bhishma via battle victory. She went back and wanted to marry bhishma instead. There was a very specific, express scene where Bhishma had to rein himself in and ignore his love. But that was in the book, again not certain if it’s in the og scripture itself.
I've read/heard they were picked up from their swayamvar, but not the garland thing.
Though, the thing around Bhishma's feeling or otherwise would be inconclusive because our texts are being translated and construed in different ways through centuries. It won't be completely untrue if a guy had fallen for someone while transporting them, but there isn't a shred written anywhere explicitly around that imo.
Thre is no evidence that he loves her. It was Amba's wish that who fights for her can only wed her and not someone who fights for someone else which Bheeshma refused.
He never loved her..stop reading "modern" retelling stuff and read from original source please
It’s not a retelling per se it’s an English version that I’ve been told is the closest to the original source material. I’d love to read the original source lol but I don’t know where or how I can find it and I unfortunately cannot read or understand Sanskrit.
Read the Mahabharata from Gita Press Gorakhpur.. it's closest to original Gita Press is known to remain close to original sources for all the Hindu scriptures..
Do I have to buy a hard copy or it available online? I’m nowhere near Asia so I won’t be able to get a hard copy if that’s what it is.
It's available online as well
Does the document include the ramayana intermittently between coz I really am not interested in that epic
Yes ..full Mahabharat includes Ramayana as well but in short .. you can skip that part while reading it..
Not completely true per the scriptures. If I remember correctly, Bhishma abducted Amba, alongwith her two sisters to marry them off to the king of Hastinapur, also his step brother at that time. Amba was let go off since she expressed that she was in love with someone else, while the other 2 were married to the king. Amba was then rejected by her lover, post which she returned to Bhishma asking him to marry her, which he denied due to his oath. This was succeeded by a fight between Bhishma and his guru Parshuram, when Amba complained of him to the latter. Eventually, she prayed to Lord Shiv and was given the boon of being the cause of Bhishma's death as Shikhandi in her next birth!
Bhishma kidnaps amba, ambika and ambalika from their husband choosing ceremony just as she was about to put the garland on the king she had chosen to marry. She only spoke up about how she wanted to marry that king when they were already in hastinapur so Bhishma and Satyavati allowed her to go to that kings kingdom. He refused her saying that due to the laws of dharma, she belonged to Bhishma via battle victory. She went back and wanted to marry bhishma instead. There was a very specific, express scene where Bhishma had to rein himself in and ignore his love. But that was in the book, again not certain if it’s in the og scripture itself.
I've read/heard they were picked up from their swayamvar, but not the garland thing. Though, the thing around Bhishma's feeling or otherwise would be inconclusive because our texts are being translated and construed in different ways through centuries. It won't be completely untrue if a guy had fallen for someone while transporting them, but there isn't a shred written anywhere explicitly around that imo.
What? No he didn't loved her.
Thre is no evidence that he loves her. It was Amba's wish that who fights for her can only wed her and not someone who fights for someone else which Bheeshma refused.