Mahabharat: Through My Eyes

Chapter 3 - SHANTANU THE UNFORTUNATE

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Remember the words you say or

it may come back to haunt you.

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The couple built a house on the river bankand lived happy days in love and passion in each other's embrace.

Days go by turning into months and months turning in to a year and the girl gave birth to a beautiful baby boy, the king shantanu became overjoyed but the girl took the baby boy and threw him into the fast flowing riptides of the river ganga, Shantanu was devastated looking at this but he kept quite and didn't try to question or stop the girl.

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Another year passed, the girl gave birth to another strong healthy beautiful baby boy.

Again she took the baby and threw the baby into the rivers riptides.

This made Shantanu even more sad but he loved his beautiful wife and remembered the promices he had made to her.

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Another year passed, the girl gave birth to another strong healthy beautiful baby boy.

Again she took the baby and threw the baby into the rivers riptides killing the baby.

This made Shantanu even more depressed but he loved his wife and remembered the promices he had made to her so he kept his mouth shut he had already lost three children he didn't want to loose his beautiful wife too.

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Another year passed she gave birth to another baby which she again threw into the river and killed now four babies had been killed but the king asked the girl nothing.

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Year after year the girl gave birth to baby boys and kept throwing them into the riptides of river ganga. Now she had killed a total of eight baby boys all given birth by herself.

Yet the King kept quiet not dearing to stop or even ask his wife why she had killed there children.

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Another year passed and the girl gave birth to another strong, healthy, robust and vigorous baby boy and she was going to throw the baby again into the river but this time Shantanu could not hold himself back any longer so he rushed forword twords his wife who was just about to throw the baby into the river stoping her in her action and asked her "My wife, whome I loved more than my self I have watched you throwing and killing one baby after another into the sacred water of river Ganga, I have lost eight healthy children and yet I refrained from questioning your decision or stoping you for I a king and a warrior had made you a promice but I can not watch another one of my children die so please answer me why have you killed eight of our children? "

The girl ever so beautiful turned around and looked at her husband and sighed and smilingly said " O foolish king you have been together with me for so many years and you have never asked me my name of my origins, I have loved you from the moment I met you till this very moment as you have broken your promises I shall no longer be your wife." and she turned around and walk into the fast riptides of the river ganga holding the eight baby boy, defeated and scared Shantanu called out to his wife "wife I did question you and try to stop you and I accept the consequences but please provide me with answers, what is your name, what is your origin and why did you kill eight of our perfectly healthy baby boys. ANSWER ME!!! " tears streaming down his cheeks he bellowed.

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