This article is about the character. For other uses, see Shantanu (disambiguation).
Kuru King and father of Bhishma in epic Mahabharata
Shantanu
Shantanu meets a beautiful woman, who turns out to be the goddess Ganga.
Maharaja of Kuru
Predecessor
Pratipa
Successor
Chitrāngada
Spouse
Ganga Satyavati
House
Hastinapura
Dynasty
Kuruvamsha-Chandravamsha
Father
Pratipa
Mother
Sunanda
Religion
Hinduism
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Shantanu (Sanskrit: शांतनु, शान्तनु, IAST: Shāṃtanu, Shāntanu)[2] was the King of Kuru Kingdom with his capital at Hastinapura, in the epic Mahabharata.[3] He was a descendant of the Bharata race, a forebear of the lineage of the Chandravamsha, the father of Bhishma and the great-grandfather of the Pandavas and the Kauravas.
The ruler was the youngest son of King Pratipa of Hastinapura and had been born during the latter's latter years. His eldest brother, Devapi, had leprosy, and had given up his inheritance to become a hermit. The middle son, Bahlika, (or Vahlika) abandoned his paternal kingdom, and had started living with his maternal uncle in Balkh, subsequently inheriting his kingdom. Shantanu, thus, ascended the throne of Hastinapura.
^"The Mahabharata, Book 1: Adi Parva: Sambhava Parva: Section CXXX".
^van Buitenen (1973), p. 231; Shastri Chitrao (1964), p. 962
^Chandrakant, Kamala; Pai, Anant (1997). Bheesma- Heroes from the Mahabharat (August 2010 Reprint ed.). Mumbai: Amar Chitra Katha Pvt Ltd. p. 1. ISBN 81-8482-035-6.
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