Epics of India - MLLL 4993-996

Author's Notes This premise for this story was based of one of the tales about Krishna. In the original story Brahma was intrigued by how Krishna shared food with the mortals in his town, and was unsure if Krishna was actually an avatar of Vishnu. In order to test Krishna's divine power Brahma stole the cows from the village alone with several of the villagers. Krishna knew that Brahma was behind this so he acted quickly and created copies of the missing cows and people from himself. An entire year passed normally in the village without anyone noticing a difference. At this time Brahma returned what he had taken, impressed by Krishna's divine power. I decided to relate this story to my degree field in an attempt to map the divine power of Krishna to a real world ability. Some aspects of the story were modeled from my experience during my first internship, but it was entirely the setting of the dark office and not the events or people! Character names are hard... B...

Plot Summary For this reading assignment I watched the second Epified playlist for Krishna. Now that Krishna has grown into a young man the responsibilities of his destiny start to pile onto him. Expectations are raised and he is forced to prove himself as the avatar of Vishnu. A common theme through this playlist was the trials that Krishna had to go though in order to prove his worth. The first of these trials was to react to nearly a whole town being stolen! Through the power of his flutes music and his divine abilities, Krishna was able to create replacements for the missing cows and people, none wiser was the rest of the town. By maintaining this charade for a year Krishna proved his divine abilities to Brahma. The second test was a more childish task of riding an angry bull. Krishna easily befriended the bull through kindness. And lastly there was Krishna's competition during the Dhanur-Yagya. Here he wielded the divine bow, which cracked under his power as he attempted t...

Plot Summary For this reading assignment I watched the Epified playlist for Krishna. There were several key points that were pointed out within the videos. The story of Krishna's Birth, his enemies, and the power that he held as an avatar of Vishnu. The first major part that was covered was the story of Krishna's birth and the background information that covered it. To start with there was a King Kamsa who was destined to be killed by the eighth child of his cousin Devaki. In order to prevent his death Kamsa killed the first 6 children of Devaki. The seventh child was saved. The eighth child, Krishna, was sneaked out of the prison and swapped for the daughter of Yashoda. This saved Krishna and he was raised by Yashoda with another boy. Due to the power held by Krishna many others sought to kill him. Kamsa knew that he had escaped and attempted several times to kill the eighth avatar of Vishnu. He sent monster after monster to end Krishna's life, but each attempt...