Monday, October 27, 2014

Week 11 Reading Diary

Sauti: the sage

Janamejaya: the king

Ganesha: son of Shiva and Parvati (Shiva tore off his head and replaced it with an Elephant head).

Amrita: the nectar of immorality.

The ocean was milk before salt – the serpent churned it.
What emerged: Lakshmi, Rambha, Airavata, Dhanwantari with amrita, and also poison. Shiva took the poison which turned his neck blue.A king falls in love with Ganga. King Shantanu and Ganga are in love.

King Chedi has a sort of wet dream (lol) when he dreams about his wife. The king charges a hawk to carry his semen to his wife, but the dang hawk drops the king’s semen in the water. A fish swallows it, and later on in the book, a fisherman captures that fish and finds a baby inside. The baby was a girl and the fisherman decided to be her father. He named her Satyavati. Later on in the book Parashara falls in love with Satyavati and they have a child Vyasa. Later on, Parashara takes away Satyavati’s fish smell and made her smell like flowers in lieu of fishiness. The king fell in love with her because of the way she smelled.

Bhishma obtains three wives for Vichitravirya: AmbaAmbika, and Ambalika

The Pandavas are born. Drona is the son of the sage Bharadwaja. Bharadwaja came in a bucket or a "drona" - which is how his son, Drona, was born and received his name.


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