Tag: history

When Bhishma, the great grand uncle of the Kauravas and the Pandavas, refused to marry Amba, she sat in penance and got a boon from Lord Shiva that she would be able to kill Bhishma who himself had the boon of being immortal. In her next birth she was born a man and fought from the side of the Pandavas. Bhishma had sworn never to raise arms on a woman so when he came before him, Bhishma dropped his arms and gave up. Who did Amba take rebirth as?

The son of a bard and a member in the court of the blind king Dhritrashtra, he was gifted with the power of seeing events happening elsewhere in the world. Some say that this power was given to him by Guru Kripacharya specially during the war so that he could narrate the events to the blind king while some say that he was born with it. What was his name?