Ved-Vyasa is the illegitimate offspring of Satyavati and Parashara, a wandering sage, before her marriage to Shantanu, who was brought up by his father. Vichitravirya dies without an heir to the throne, and as Bhishma is unwilling to procreate, Satyavati calls on the sage Ved-Vyasa to impregnate the two widowed queens. She is unable to persuade Bhishma to wed her (and thus gain the respect that comes with marriage) and she takes up austerity, vowing to take her revenge on Bhishma, which she eventually does. Amba, the eldest, refuses, but her lover, Salva, the king of Saubha, refuses to take her back. Two of the princesses agree to wed his half brother.
Later on, he abducts three princesses from the kingdom of Kasi during a Svayamvara (a marriage ceremony where the princess gets to choose her husband), for his half-brother (the son of Satyavati and Shantanu) Vichitravirya to marry. Devavrata is hence called Bhishma or the 'one with a terrible vow'. The Wise Prince Devavrata promises to step away from the throne and to remain celibate for the rest of his life so that Satyavati's children can inherit the throne. Shantanu finds his Second Love, a young fisherwoman named Satyavati whom he cannot marry due to Parental Marriage Veto. Ganga leaves and her son, Devavrata, becomes the apparent heir. Shantanu finally asks her to stop, only to find out that her sons are holy souls that, who, due to a crime of vandalism that they had committed, were forced to be born as mortal humans, and that by drowning them, she's letting them go back to the place where souls go after having transcended the cycle of rebirth. Ganga, however, appears to be a Jerkass, and drowns every single child that she bears as soon as they are born.
The Epic starts with King Shantanu, the ancestor of the Kurus, falling in Love at First Sight with (unknown to him) River Goddess Ganga, whose condition for marrying him is that he should refrain from questioning her about anything that she does. Though based on earlier oral stories, recording did not begin until around 400 BCE, according to the most widely accepted theories about its composition. It is popularly said to be written by the sage and Author Avatar "Ved-Vyasa" (meaning the Arranger of the Vedas). The Mahabharata is a great Indian epic, part of Hindu Mythology and a Narrative Poem primarily about the Civil War between two factions, the Kauravas and the Pandavas of the Kuru dynasty who are Royal Cousins.
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