Ramayana · Vol 1
Amrita
The gods use a king of serpents as a rope to churn the ocean for the water of immortality, and that same night his own mother curses him. He and all his people will burn in the sacrificial fire of a king not yet born.
- Series
- Mahabharata
- Contents
- 9 chapters, 19,471 words
- Transparency
- SI-assisted work
About this work
Vasuki, king of the serpents, is wound around a mountain so that the gods can obtain amrita, the water of immortality, and he is not given a drop. That night his mother curses her children to burn in the sacrificial fire of King Janamejaya, and the Grandfather, creator of all beings, says so let it be. Garuda steals the amrita from heaven to free his mother from slavery. A king drapes a dead snake over the shoulders of a sage and dies bitten by Takshaka. Vasuki's only hope is his sister, who must be married to an old ascetic who wants no wife. This is the beginning of the Mahabharata as a novel, faithfully retold from the Adi Parva in the Indian version.
