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Originally posted by: .Vrish.One thing about the story about the 'killing' of Arjun that strikes me. Bheeshma was one of the Vasus, and they had wanted to be liberated as soon as born, which is why Ganga did the otherwise heinous act of drowning them. Given that, why were they upset @ Arjun cheating and laying Bheeshma low? If anything, they ought to have rejoiced that Bheeshma's release was now imminent, since Ganga had insisted that at least one son had to be kept alive to fulfill her marital duties. Besides, I fail to see how Arjun's defeating Bheeshma was any more sinful than what Ganga did to his 7 elder brothers.
Originally posted by: .Vrish.Thanks to Santanu's boon, nobody could have liberated Bheeshma except himself, so to expect Arjun to liberate him would have been futile. Arjun's goal was to immobilize Bheeshma so that he couldn't continue to massacre the Pandava armies. Whether Bheeshma died or not would be up to him.
I said intention of Arjun and not his ability to liberate Bhishma. Exactly what you said (and exactly what I said), Arjun's goal was to immobilize Bhishma (to win the war) and in that process he gave him pain rather than with the intention that Bhishma would be liberated soon (like Ganga had while drowning babies). You didn't catch the essence of my post I think.Also, the Vasu condition of waiving the curse if Arjun was killed by Babruvahana defied much sense, since he was brought back to life after that. Killed means that Arjun would have had to be killed once and for all, and at that point, there wasn't much left for him to do.Also, I thought that if a horse was successfully captured, as it was by Babruvahana, then the onus of doing the yagna now fell on the ruler who had accomplished this, which would be Babruvahana. So the other thing that beats me is - how could Arjun continue w/ the yagna?I knew about this query of yours and was impliedly in my mind while writing my earlier post today when I wrote that the sacrifice had to be continued by the winner. But then LK were undefeated and still they returned the horse back and surrendered the right (along with responsibility) to perform the sacrifice. Don't you think this to be the same case?
Originally posted by: .Vrish.One thing about the story about the 'killing' of Arjun that strikes me. Bheeshma was one of the Vasus, and they had wanted to be liberated as soon as born, which is why Ganga did the otherwise heinous act of drowning them. Given that, why were they upset @ Arjun cheating and laying Bheeshma low? If anything, they ought to have rejoiced that Bheeshma's release was now imminent, since Ganga had insisted that at least one son had to be kept alive to fulfill her marital duties. Besides, I fail to see how Arjun's defeating Bheeshma was any more sinful than what Ganga did to his 7 elder brothers.
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