{"id":71494,"date":"2025-03-03T01:00:45","date_gmt":"2025-03-02T19:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/?p=71494"},"modified":"2025-03-01T19:51:17","modified_gmt":"2025-03-01T14:21:17","slug":"71494-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/71494-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Death of Maharaja Pariksit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/Five-thousand-years-ago-the-great-rajarshi-Maharaj-Pariksit-reigned-as-emperor-of-the-world_.jpg\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size: 16px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-71323 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/Five-thousand-years-ago-the-great-rajarshi-Maharaj-Pariksit-reigned-as-emperor-of-the-world_-204x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"204\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/Five-thousand-years-ago-the-great-rajarshi-Maharaj-Pariksit-reigned-as-emperor-of-the-world_-204x300.jpg 204w, https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/Five-thousand-years-ago-the-great-rajarshi-Maharaj-Pariksit-reigned-as-emperor-of-the-world_.jpg 579w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 204px) 100vw, 204px\" \/><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size: 16px\">Not everyone can know the exact moment of their death, and in this sense, Pariksit could consider himself lucky because he had the opportunity to spend those last seven days he had left to living in the best possible way: retired on the banks of the Ganges, he took the opportunity of the presence of Shukadeva Gosvami to listen to the sacred scripture called Srimad-Bhagavatam up to the last moment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size: 16px\">And punctually, after seven days, the serpent Takshaka infused him with its venom and the king abandoned his mortal remains.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size: 16px;color: #0000ff\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is a section of the book \u201cMaha-Bharata As It Is vol. 1 of 2\u201d.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To buy the complete book <span style=\"color: #ff0000\">click below<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><a style=\"color: #0000ff\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kadachaeditions.com\/art\/maha-bharata-as-it-is-vol-1-of-2-english\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/www.kadachaeditions.com\/art\/maha-bharata-as-it-is-vol-1-of-2-english\/<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><br style=\"font-weight: 400\" \/><br \/>\n<br style=\"font-weight: 400\" \/><br \/>\n<br style=\"font-weight: 400\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not everyone can know the exact moment of their death, and in this sense, Pariksit could consider himself lucky because he had the opportunity to spend those last seven days he had left to living in &hellip; 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