Bhim’s son was Ghatotkacha, and Ghatotkacha’s son was Barbareek. He was powerful than Arjun, Karn, Bhisma, Dronacharya and other fighters of the Mahabharata.
When war was about to happen, he was asked for help. As he could change the result of war by using the powerful arrows — gifted to him by goddess Durga — out of his generosity he thought to help the weaker party; this was the thought that caused to pay a heavy price, price of his own soul.
When his thought turned in a promise and everybody knew it. He was told (perhaps by lord Krishna) that no party remained weaker or stronger all the times in a war, as a result he would keep changing sides and would kill both the parties of the war.
Barbareek didn’t want to fail for his promise nor did he wanted to be alive with broken promise, what he did? he cut his own head.
Krishna gave prana to his dead head, and sat it at a very high hill, so he could see all the war through his eyes.
When Mahabharata war was finished and he was asked that who was the strongest in the whole war; he replied, he just saw Krishna’s Sudarshan and Shiva’s Pashupat-Astra moving around; or in other words, Vishnu and Shiva caused Pandavas to win the war.
Still today in most of Hindu marriages, there is a ritual, called "Barmaniya” which is supposed to be a sign of Barbareek which witnesses the marriage ceremony.
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