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When did Bhishma die? A reading of the Mahabharata reveals a startling possibility
Rudrangshu Mukherjee investigates the Mahabharata to find out when – and how – Bhishma’s death actually took place. Detail from a painting depicting Bhishma on his bed of arrows. | via Ramanarayanadatta Astri / Public domain
“In my beginning is my end.” [1] These words of TS Eliot’s have a certain resonance when one looks at the career of Bhishma in the
Mahabharata. Bhisma had a life before his arrival on earth. The story goes that while returning from
Brahmaloka, Ganga came upon the eight heavenly
Vasu gods who were all in a terrible state. When she enquired, the gods told her that for a minor offence the