Amba / Story of Garland / Reborn / Gender Change / Chariot

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amba_(Mahabharata)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amba_River

She did severe penance to exact her revenge on Bhishma. Following this, Lord Subramanya The God Of War appeared

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1. Gave a garland of forever fresh lotuses and 
2. tells her that the person who wears the garland would kill Bhishma. 

Amba goes around many kingdoms asking people to wear the same. Utterly scared of Bhishma, no one dares to accept the garland. Amba finally places the garland on the gates of Drupada’s palace and ends her life. Drupada keeps the garland with him.

1. During the early years of Shikhandi, the garland is worn by him once. 
2. Now, the same garland is given to Draupadi during the Swayamvara. Which means the person whom Draupadi garlands in the Swayamvara will kill Bhishma- Which is Arjuna .
3.  At the end shikandi and arjuna combinedly injure Bhishma

Reborn as
http://www.india-intro.com/religion/mahabharat/65-mahabharat-amba-bheeshma-bhishma-anger-revenge-shikhandi.html
Shikandi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shikhandi

Gender Transformation
http://www.indianetzone.com/46/shikhandi.htm

Chariot
http://devdutt.com/articles/mahabharata/on-krishnas-chariot-stands-shikhandi.html
Tube
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Shikhandi+Bheeshma

Reference
http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/m01/m01103.htm

stackexchange

https://hinduism.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/bhishma

Vitahavya

Bhisma to Yudhistira

Vitahavya was a king of the solar race. He was the son of Saryāti. He took refuge at the hermitage of the sage Bhṛgu, performed austerities and became a brāhmaṇa. Gṛtsamada, a well-known sage, was his son.

https://vaniquotes.org/wiki/Grtsamada
http://www.speakingtree.in/allslides/life-of-mandodari-after-ravanas-death/abandoning-sita-in-mithila

Source
http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/m13/m13a030.htm

Padma Purana

At the behest of Maharshi Veda Vyas, his illustrious disciple Lomaharsha addressed the holy gathering of Rishis headed by Suta Maha Muni at ‘Naimisharanya’ to portray the Padma Purana comprising Five Khandas (Branches) viz. Srishti Khanda, Bhumi Khanda, Swarga Khanda, Patala Khanda and Uttara Khanda. As Padma (Lotus) got sprouted from Bhagavan Vishnu’s navel, Brahma surfaced. Bhagavan Vishnu narrated the Contents of the Purana to Brahma Deva and the latter conveyed the details to Maharshi Marichi; Brahma also passed it on to Sage Pulastya and Bhishma of Pandavas learnt it from Pulastya at Gangadwar (Haridwar) and that was how the posterity came to learn of the Padma Purana down the ages.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Padma_Purana
http://www.astrojyoti.com/padmapurana.htm
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Padma+Purana
https://www.kamakoti.org/kamakoti/details/padmapurana1.html
https://nitaaiveda.com/All_Scriptures_By_Acharyas/Puranas/Padma_Purana.htm
https://www.slideshare.net/search/slideshow?searchfrom=header&q=Padma+Purana

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Bhishma’s Urban Planning Guidelines

In the Shanti Parva, when Yudhishthira seeks Bhishma’s guidance on building the right kind of city, Bhishma goes into great detail on the various aspects of what we call today as urban security planning.

Designing the Kings City

Six types of citadels should protect the city where the king dwells namely: water-citadels, earth-citadels, hill-citadels, human-citadels, mud-citadels, and forest-citadels. The main area should be protected with impenetrable walls. Large squares should be created where shops can be set up. The supply of rice and other  supplies like fuel, iron, chaff, charcoal, timber, horns, bones, bamboos, marrow, oils and ghee, fat, honey, medicines, flax, resinous exudations, weapons, shafts, leather catgut (for bow-strings), caries, and strings and cords made of munja grass and other plants and creepers should always be stocked for emergency situations. A number of tanks, containing large amount of water, have to be built. This indicated a flourishing irrigation system.

Rural and Urban Governance

Every village or Grama should have a headman. For every 10 headmen, there will be a superintendent who took care of 10 villages grouped together as das-gramini. For every 2 superintendents, there would an officer who took care of 20 villages-vimsatipa. The person above the officer will manage a hundred villages (sat-gramini) and above this is the one who manages thousand villages. This person manages a town and every town has an officer who handles the daily affairs and protection during war. Bottom up support is offered in this organizational structure. The designated officers had to maintain account of all the income and expenditure and personalized taxation systems were designed. If we have to compare it with the scales of today, the whole of Tamil Nadu has only a little over 200 taluks. So the scales spoken of in the Mahabharata are magnificent.

So what was the duty of these top officials?

Bhishma elucidates the various duties performed by the officials:

1. The key responsibility is to protect the people in his jurisdiction. This official is taking care of 1000 villages and hence would be responsible for a huge population. Offering protection to all of these would mean a solid protection force like the police forces of today that would man the various villages.
2. Keeping account of sales and purchases. This indicates a well-functioning accounting system that compiled data from various regions
3. Management of roads, food and clothing. This mechanism ensured that all had access to basic needs of food, shelter and clothing
4. Profits earned by business communities and levying tax on them. This again indicates a personalized and robust taxation system. Bhishma mentions that the tax should be in proportion to the profits as well as the amount of labor that goes into producing the goods.
5. Winning the goodwill of people through a fair system of justice
6. These complex organizational structures require meticulous planning and execution. This also requires knowledge of ecology, architecture, precision science, labor laws, economics and weapons engineering. 

http://indiafacts.org/bahubalis-mahishmati-glimpse-magnificent-architecture-ancient-indian-cities/

Kunda BanGanga

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