Epics of India - MLLL 4993-996

Author's Notes So this story turned out to be heavily inspired by the Prequel meme 'The Tragedy of Darth Plagueis The Wise". As I went over my notes on Bramha I realized that he became obsessed and consumed by  his creation, and lost a true sense of who he was. The end result of this was Bramha becoming a legend and left mostly unacknowledged.   Bramha the Wise Did you ever hear the tragedy of Bramha the Wise? I thought not. It is not a story that western society would tell you. It is an ancient Indian legend. Bramha was the creator of the world, so powerful and so wise he could use his powers to change his shape, alter the universe, and create life… He had such a knowledge and power that he could even keep the ones he cared about from dying. Such power was unyielding; it fogged his mind, focused his thoughts, and made him loose his sense of self. In an effort to learn who he was as a person, Bramha created a daughter, who came to represent the whole world. As the...

Author’s Notes: Read First – This story is based on the God Narayan. In short, Narayan is the God Vishnu when he is asleep. The world is nothing when Vishnu closes his eyes, as then there is no observer of the world. Yet when Narayan awakes from his slumber, the world comes into existence again. The source video that is story is sourced from can be found below. I really like the idea of a new world coming into existence each time Narayan opened his eyes. I wanted to put a twist on this by making the world change slightly each time as I imagine it is hard to remember every detail to perfection. When the World Changes Day 0: Do you ever get the feeling that something is off? Or have the feeling that you are being watched? That tingling sensation on the back of your neck, but only when you turn around nothing is there. Yeah, well, that has been happening to me a lot lately. I am scared, and I am ready to put an end to this. Day 1: Yesterday I went to Best Buy...

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...

Author's Notes This story focuses on the events that happened during the conflict of the Pandavas and the Kauravas. The main battles can be seen in this story 1 . I found that the fighting in this war was primarily focused around where the generals were fighting, and less so about the actual infantry on the ground. One particular sentence inspired me to write this story, "Terrible were the omens, for headless men rose up and fought against one another". The concept of the dead fighting each other while a horrific war was happening was something that I wanted to elaborate on further. The Undying Battle An ancient prophecy of old once spoke of the days to come, of a great horror and darkness that would befall upon the world. The prophecy read:   A day will come when the bonds of blood will break.   Mothers' sons locked in celestial conflict.   Endless darkness will fall upon the sky,   and a disease will inflict those already gone... I awake again to...

Author's Notes I have based this story off of the Mahabharata reading Draupadi's Swayamwara 1 . In this story there is a contest for which suitor will be able to take Draupadi as their wife. In this challenge the suitors had to "bend the bow and shoot an arrow through the wheel which will strike and bring down the golden fish shall obtain" the right to marry Draupadi. I decided to make the setting a different planet in order to give me more freedom in the difficulty of the Swayamwara. Also I swapped the gender roles to make things more interesting. Nus' Five Wives On the planet of Zognar there lived a civilization of warriors. There was a city named Taht, where the sovereign leader Traeh ruled. Traeh has reached the age where he is becoming old and senile, and he desired for his lonely son Nus to take over the kingdom. However, there is a prerequisite that Nus must be married prior to becoming the new leader. In order for this to be accomplished, Traeh sent o...

Author's Notes This story was based on the story of Jatayu and Sampati. The two eagles were very competitive in seeing which could fly the highest over the mountain. It ended with Jatayu flying too close to the Sun. It would have burned him and killed him if Sampati had not flown above him and shielded him by casting a shadow with his wings. The younger brother doesn’t die in this story. I wanted the competition and danger to be things that were easy to relate to. Life on the Edge Beep. Beep. Beep. Beep. “Ugh. What is that noise? Why is it so bright?” I gently try to open my eyes, but all I see is a white overhead light and a bleach colored room. As my eyes adjust I realize that I am laying on a bed. The noise was coming from my side. "Oh, a hospital", I said in bleak acknowledgement of where I was. Feeling dazed I try to sit up. My head is ringing and the room gently turns around me. As I lean forward I feel a hand on my chest, it was my mom. She says gently to me...

Author's Notes This story was primarily inspired by a part in the Ramayana titled 'The Bridge' 1 . However, this story does contain a lot of the background information from the rest of the Ramayana. I had already typed up a majority of the background before realizing that is was not really on topic, but it did not make sense to delete it. I envisioned that most of the Gods from the Ramayana would take the forms of animals. Rama himself is the commanding ant, and those who follow him are the rest of his friends and allies. It is not correct for ants to have mates in the case of Rama and Sita's ant versions; this has been ignored to simplify the story. Additionally, there is no love interest between Ron and the queen, which is different from the dynamic between Rama and Sita. The Madhya Pradesh is the largest forest in India 2 . Here is a picture of it! Source The Journey of the Ants Background It was a normal day in the Madhya Pradesh forest. The wind ble...

The Last Wish Source We've all been there haven't we? Stuck in-between breaking a sacred oath or the complete destruction of the planet... Just me?...Oh... I take it that you would like to here my story then. Life as a genie isn't always as easy as it sounds. Being an all powerful magical being seems fun. Three wishes and that's it, easy enough, right? Wrong! Sure, you get your occasional person who, feeling bad for all the things they have done, wishes to give back, and to help others. It is people like this that I live to serve. However, this is rarely the case. It is surprising, the amount of cruelty, spite, and rage that exists between Humans. Anyone and everyone always has someone they hate. Today’s case was far different from the rest. Years back, I had served a man with the largest of grudges. For he held in his heart an amount of a...

The Timid, Foolish Student Once upon a time, a student was visiting a college. While he was there he thought, "What if I have to go to college! What then would become of me if I couldn’t succeed?" Later that day the college recruiters came to talk to him. Hearing them talk, the student said to himself, "I must go to college!" And he focused and studied as much as he could, without even looking back to see other possibilities. Another student saw him studying, and asked him, "What are you studying so much for?" "Don't ask me!" he cried. But the other student ran after him, begging to know what was the matter. Then the first student said, "Don't you know? We have to go to college, it is the only way!" And on he  studied , and the second student studied with him. The next student they met also studied hard with them when he heard that college was to only way to succeed. One student after another joined them, until there were hund...