'Shantanu Meets the Goddess Ganga', 1913. Shantanu, king of Hastinapura discovers his wife the goddes Ganga who will bear him eight sons, cursed by Vasishtha to be born on earth as mortal humans. From "Indian Myth and Legend", by Donald A. Mackenzie. [The Gresham Publishing Company Limited, London, 1913]

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