Mahabharat Written Update 19th September 2013 - Page 3

am new to the forum but i see a lot of familiar people here..i have one tihng to say abt the character of matsyakanya/ satyavati.. according to Krishna-Avatar written by KM Munshi, the entire issue of ved-vyas being the father of ambika and ambalika's sons, was not proposed by satyavati but by the ministers of hastinapur..they wanted Bheeshma to beget the sons first according to a particular ritual which i dnt remember name of..but bheeshma refused outright..and the throne of hastinapur had no king..there were many neighbouring kingdoms wanting to seize the throne as well after the death of vichitravirya..so in desperation, she pleaded to vedvyas who was her son from Muni Parashar and he came to fulfil the ritual..i think her character is portryaed to be lot more egoistic than it was..even the whole sons-being-kings condition was raised by her father and not her..she was all of 17 wen she was married to Shantanu..