{"id":72665,"date":"2025-04-07T12:28:15","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T06:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/?p=72665"},"modified":"2025-04-07T12:28:15","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T06:58:15","slug":"shantanu-lived-peacefully","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/shantanu-lived-peacefully\/","title":{"rendered":"Shantanu Lived Peacefully"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size: 16px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Ganga-The-River-Goddess-Tales-in-Art-and-Mythology.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-72666 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Ganga-The-River-Goddess-Tales-in-Art-and-Mythology-215x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"215\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Ganga-The-River-Goddess-Tales-in-Art-and-Mythology-215x300.jpg 215w, https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Ganga-The-River-Goddess-Tales-in-Art-and-Mythology.jpg 287w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 215px) 100vw, 215px\" \/><\/a>Years had passed, and Pratipa had grown old. So, he retired to the forest to spend the last years of his life in devotional service and meditation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size: 16px\">Shantanu had inherited his father&#8217;s throne and ruled with equal righteousness and ability.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size: 16px\">Still being young, he particularly loved long walks on the banks of the Ganges, alone, absorbed in a serene and peaceful state of mind. He felt satisfied because the people, happy with his way of governing, respected the laws and lived peacefully.<\/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><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;color: #ff0000\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;text-decoration: underline\" 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\">click here<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><br style=\"font-weight: 400\" \/><br \/>\n<br style=\"font-weight: 400\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Years had passed, and Pratipa had grown old. So, he retired to the forest to spend the last years of his life in devotional service and meditation. Shantanu had inherited his father&#8217;s throne and ruled with &hellip; <a class=\"kt-excerpt-readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/shantanu-lived-peacefully\/\" aria-label=\"Shantanu Lived Peacefully\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,189],"tags":[220],"class_list":["post-72665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-kadacha-eng","tag-maha-bharata-vol-1-eng"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-03 09:29:11","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}