{"id":74082,"date":"2025-06-08T01:00:47","date_gmt":"2025-06-07T19:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/?p=74082"},"modified":"2025-06-05T18:21:02","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T12:51:02","slug":"bhishma-treated-them-as-if-they-were-his-own-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/bhishma-treated-them-as-if-they-were-his-own-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Bhishma treated Them as if They were his own Children"},"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\/06\/Children.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-74083 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Children-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Children-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Children.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Time passed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size: 16px\">The three children grew up loved by all, and especially by their uncle Bhishma, who treated them as if they were his own children.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size: 16px\">When the princes reached marriageable age, Bhishma was concerned about finding good wives for them.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size: 16px\">Dhritarastra married Gandhari, the caste daughter of king Subala of Gandhara. As soon as this pious woman learned that she would have a blind husband, she did not want to have anything that was not also in the possession of her husband and put on a blindfold, vowing never to take it off.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size: 16px\">During the same period, Pandu, the second son, married Madri, the daughter of the king of Madra.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size: 16px\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br style=\"font-weight: 400\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff\">This is a section of the book \u201cMaha-Bharata As It Is vol. 1 of 2\u201d.<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><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><\/span><\/p>\n<p><br style=\"font-weight: 400\" \/><br \/>\n<br style=\"font-weight: 400\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time passed. The three children grew up loved by all, and especially by their uncle Bhishma, who treated them as if they were his own children. 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