That was quite a detail from pade queen. But lemme take the liberty to correct some misinformation. "The eldest AMBA fell in love with BISHMA and wanted to marry him." ---> Amba was not in love with Bhisma... instead she was in love with "Salwa Naresh". Infact they were dating each other but Amba was scared of Bhisma when he stromed at her father's "Raaj bhawaan" and took her away along with her sisters... with all the "beer" from "Bharat Varsha" acepting defeat in front of mighty & unconquerable Bhisma; she could not tell him that she was in love with Salwa Naresh. Later, Salwa Naresh attacked Bhisma on his way back to "Hastinapur". Bhisma defeats Salwa Naresh and gives him "Jeewan Daan". (Actually Salwa Naresh and Bhisma had fought b4 as well, when Bhisma comes back to his dad, regarding a horse, i reckon. He gave Jeevan Daan to Salwa Naresh then as well). Infact, after reaching Hastinapur, Amba requests Satyabati to let her go to Salwa Naresh and they let her; but Salwa Naresh rejects her saying he already lost her to Bhisma in war. She then asks Bhisma to marry her since he was the one who was the cause of all that... and so goes the story of her apparent anger,resentment for Bhisma and blah blah......... "Byas said he would sleep with them three times" -----> Rishi Vyas never said he is gonna sleep with them three times. It was after he told Satyawati about the reaction of buharis and its would be unfortunate outcome, Satyawati orders one of them to go again to vyas, but the buharis sends one of their dasi. ( And ofcourse sexy dasi is all over vyas eheheh; and thus Bidur naam ko ankur futteko :p) And ofcourse, the most important one is the one Gorkhadogg pointed out. Well, neverthless it was very comendable job Pade Queen. Well... of all "traditional" serials, Mahabharat certainly was/is the best. ******************** And MM......."Duryadhon was Charity guy ...which is proved from making karna ( sutputra) king which was abondend by Pandavas.." -------->I can't disagree about the first statement but well about making Karna, a King.... well common now... he saw Karna as someone who can actually rival and ultimately defeat Arjun in turn defeating Pandavs, which unfortunately was his life long dream; courtesy Sakuni. But the point is... making Karna, a King after seeing his power, and his own "Swartha" doesn't make one Charitable person in my humble opinion. And Pandavs did not abandon Karna, they simply did not know he was their brother. Remember, kunti actually left Karna in basket to fight his own fate alone in the river when he was not even a day old? ********************** And regarding the first post of this thread.... I am more or less positive that Karavs were indeed sons of Dhritarastra and Gandhari, but Gandhari did not give birth to them physically... some puja and prayers and they were conceived just the way Karna was... by ashirbad.... from khai ko God or maybe rishi.. so all were born afai bucket socket ma... ya know just the way Pandavs were not conceived by Kunti and Madri but were bardaan from different gods, but still are known as pandu and kunti/madri putras.... well Enuff said. Phewwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.. my longest post in Sajha... and i don't write much here... ehehhe... perhaps m a lil drunk ehehehe.. but these are fact based on the book and tele serial. So long... have a great weekend guys. Tired, IndisguiSe:)