{"id":72836,"date":"2026-02-17T01:44:44","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T05:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/?p=72836"},"modified":"2025-04-14T18:05:06","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T12:35:06","slug":"shantanu-must-not-hinder-or-criticize-his-wifes-actions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/shantanu-must-not-hinder-or-criticize-his-wifes-actions\/","title":{"rendered":"Shantanu Must Not Hinder or Criticize his Wife\u2019s Actions"},"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\/Do-You-Know-Why-Ganga-Dussehra-is-Celebrated-Know-Its-Mythological-Significance.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-72837 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Do-You-Know-Why-Ganga-Dussehra-is-Celebrated-Know-Its-Mythological-Significance-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Do-You-Know-Why-Ganga-Dussehra-is-Celebrated-Know-Its-Mythological-Significance-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Do-You-Know-Why-Ganga-Dussehra-is-Celebrated-Know-Its-Mythological-Significance.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a>Shantanu, who had waited so long for his heir, was desperate, but he could not say anything, remembering the conditions she had set: he must not hinder or criticize his wife\u2019s actions, otherwise she would abandon him. Apart from what seemed like a moment of madness to everyone, she was otherwise an exceptional woman, loving, kind, deeply attached to her husband and her duties as wife and queen.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">Then, the second son was born, and he had the same fate as the first. And then the third and the fourth. Shantanu was desperate. He could not understand the reasons for such behavior. What prompted her to kill her children? But he was too afraid of losing her to protest.<\/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>Shantanu, who had waited so long for his heir, was desperate, but he could not say anything, remembering the conditions she had set: he must not hinder or criticize his wife\u2019s actions, otherwise she would abandon &hellip; <a class=\"kt-excerpt-readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/shantanu-must-not-hinder-or-criticize-his-wifes-actions\/\" aria-label=\"Shantanu Must Not Hinder or Criticize his Wife\u2019s Actions\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":72837,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,189],"tags":[220],"class_list":["post-72836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","category-kadacha-eng","tag-maha-bharata-vol-1-eng"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-22 19:00:01","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\/72836","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=72836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}