Shantanu

Shantanu
Shantanu meets a beautiful woman, who turns out to be the goddess Ganga.
In-universe information
Title	Maharaja of Kuru
Spouses	Ganga Satyavati
Children	Bhishma (from Ganga) Chitrangada and Vichitravirya (from Satyavati)
Relatives	Pratipa (father) Sunanda (mother) Devapi (brother) Bahlika (brother)
Religion	Hinduism
Home	Hastinapura

Shantanu (Sanskrit: शांतनु, शान्तनु, IAST: Shāṃtanu, Shāntanu)^[1] was the King of Kuru Kingdom with his capital at Hastinapura, in the epic Mahabharata.^[2] He was a descendant of the Bharata race, a forebear of the lineage of the Chandravamsha, the father of Bhishma and the great-grandfather of the Pandavas and the Kauravas.

The ruler was the youngest son of King Pratipa of Hastinapura and had been born during the latter's latter years. His eldest brother, Devapi, had leprosy, and had given up his inheritance to become a hermit. The middle son, Bahlika, (or Vahlika) abandoned his paternal kingdom, and had started living with his maternal uncle in Balkh, subsequently inheriting his kingdom. Shantanu, thus, ascended the throne of Hastinapura.