KW342898 Shantanu Meets the Goddess Ganga, illustration from \'Indian Myth and Legend\' by Donald A. Mackenzie, published in 1913 (colour litho) by Goble, Warwick (1862-1943) (after); Private Collection; (add.info.: in the epic Mahabharata, Shantanu marries Ganga with the condition that he will not question anything she does; one by one she gives birth to his children and drowns each one; finally, with the eighth child, Shantanu asks why she drowns them and this child is allowed to live;); English, out of copyright.