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(Sambhava Parva continued)
"Vaisampayana said, 'O monarch, after the
nuptials were over, king Santanu established his beautiful bride in his
household. Soon after was born of Satyavati an intelligent and heroic son of
Santanu named Chitrangada. He was endued with great energy and became an
eminent man. The lord Santanu of great prowess also begat upon Satyavati
another son named Vichitravirya, who became a mighty bowman and who became king
after his father. And before that bull among men, viz., Vichitravirya, attained
to majority, the wise king Santanu realised the inevitable influence of Time.
And after Santanu had ascended to heaven. Bhishma, placing himself under the
command of Satyavati, installed that suppressor of foes, viz., Chitrangada, on
the throne, who, having soon vanquished by his prowess all monarchs, considered
not any man as his equal. And beholding that he could vanquish men, Asuras, and
the very gods, his namesake, the powerful king of the Gandharvas, approached
him for an encounter. Between that Gandharva and that foremost one of the
Kurus, who were both very powerful, there occurred on the field of Kurukshetra
a fierce combat which lasted full three years on the banks of the Saraswati. In
that terrible encounter characterised by thick showers of weapons and in which
the combatants ground each other fiercely, the Gandharva, who had greater
prowess or strategic deception, slew the Kuru prince. Having slain
Chitrangada--that first of men and oppressor of foes--the Gandharva ascended to
heaven. When that tiger among men endued with great prowess was slain, Bhishma,
the son of Santanu, performed, O king, all his obsequies. He then installed the
boy Vichitravirya of mighty arms, still in his minority, on the throne of the
Kurus. And Vichitravirya, placing himself under the command of Bhishma, ruled
the ancestral kingdom. And he adored Santanu's son Bhishma who was conversant
with all the rules of religion and law; so, indeed, Bhishma also protected him
that was so obedient to the dictates of duty.'"
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