This happened again and again and again. It was seven children in a row she threw them in Ganga. And then another child was born and she suddenly took the infant and went to the Ganga. When she was about throw him in, Shantanu could not control himself any longer. He began to weep and despair and he said “why? Why do you keep murdering your own children? How can you be so cruel?” So, she explained, that “she was actually from the upper planets, the heavenly abodes. But she was cursed to take birth as a mortal in this world. At about the same time, the eight vasus offended one rishi by accident and they were also cursed to take birth in this earth planet. So, they approached Ganga Devi and said “Please! All we have to do is take birth. Let us take birth from your womb, but promise us that as soon as we are born, throw us in Ganges so we can immediately have our heavenly abodes back and we can live in our heavenly planets.” So, out of kindness and love for them I didn’t want to see them suffer the miseries of this world but to have the pleasures of their own heavenly abodes. But now you have stopped me, you have asked me. So, I will let you have this one son, but I will leave you. Because you have questioned me.” She said “I will take this child for twelve years to the heavenly worlds and I will have him trained to be the greatest king the world have ever seen.”

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