Bhishma Dwadashi Legend
According to the legend, Shantanu’s wife Ganga gave birth to a son named, Devvrat. She left Shantanu after giving birth. Shantanu was depressed because of this for a long time. After some time, Shantanu wanted to cross river Ganga and sat in boat. The boat belonged to a girl named, Matsyagandha.
Matsyagandha was later famous by the name, Satyawati. Shantanu was spell bound by the girl’s beauty and asked for her father’s permission to marry her. Satyawati’s father had one condition. It was that her son would be Shantanu’s successor to the throne.
Shantanu did not accept this condition but was disturbed. Seeing his father disturbed, Devvrat swore of not to marry a girl his whole life. Listening to this, Shantanu blessed him with a boon that allowed him to accept death on his own terms. Due to this, Devvrat came to be known as Bhishma Pitama.
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