Was Bheeshm right in making Pandu or Dhritrashtra the king - Page 3

Originally posted by: CaptainSpark

Some versions say it was Satyavati, some say it was her. Also, Nishad Kanya or do you mean a fisherwoman? 😳

Yes. Nishads are considered to the community who are completely dependent on water n related activities like fishery boating etc.

Even the Sewa of Parashar muni that she did was while she was helping him cross the river

Since there is no exact translation, they translate it in English as fisherwoman

Originally posted by: FlauntPessimism

Yes. Nishads are considered to the community who are completely dependent on water n related activities like fishery boating etc.

Even the Sewa of Parashar muni that she did was while she was helping him cross the river

Since there is no exact translation, they translate it in English as fisherwoman

Alright, then what about Eklavya? Isn't he a Nishad Prince as well- so he was also from the fishermen community? Was not he from Magadh though? I read somewhere that he was a Prince of some tribe. Not sure.

Originally posted by: CaptainSpark

Alright, then what about Eklavya? Isn't he a Nishad Prince as well- so he was also from the fishermen community? Was not he from Magadh though? I read somewhere that he was a Prince of some tribe. Not sure.

Yes he was from Magadh. After Rajsuya Yagya Magadh came under Indraprasth (later under Hastinapur since Yudhishtir lost it in Dyut) I think he fought against Pandavas in Mahabharata but wasn't a Maharathi so not much information is given on his valour in the war narration.

Again what we know about how war progressed was majorly what Sanjay saw and narrated to Dhritrashtra and the latter wouldn't have been interested in Eklavya when he had the great Bheeshm, Dronacharya, Kripacharya, Karna, Maharaja Shalya and Duryodhan Dusshashan to focus on.

Nishad was a community not everyone in the community will be responsible for ground level work. For example Nand Baba was GwalRaj, the chief of the Gwalas, but he himself wasn't involved in milking he looked into the administrative matters of the Gwalas in his community.

Similarly the Nishads of any region had a small close knit community of their own to carry out activities like rowing, fishery, irrigation support etc. But although they were a part of the kingdom overall they did have small amount of autonomy among themselves and had a chief who looked into the administration. Like NishadRaj Guhya in Ramayan, he was a local king but his administrative area was under Ayodhya jurisdiction

Eklavya was the son of such a king in Magadh area.

Such communities would have their packets all around the country where ever there was a huge water body, so Maghadh with Ganges and Son was bound to have one same as areas around Yamuna

Satyavati was also calculative, though the promise was taken by her father from devvrat, she could have done something...

she declared pandu as king since dhritrashtra was blind - but never feed him a little common sense, he was growing with full revenge and insult in his mind, which dwelled down in duryodhan and other sons.