Week 3 Story: Divine Bow Slays The Demon Ravana
Divine Bow Slays The Demon Ravan
In the parallel universe, there was a planet called “Htrae” (spelled backward for Earth) where Humans, Demons, and Deva lived together. But that planet was always in chaos because Gods and Demons were constantly fighting, and in the crossfire Humans were always were killed because they were weak. The three Omnipotent Gods who never participated in the war of Deva and Demons because they were just too strong for anyone, and also they didn’t discriminate between Humans, Demons, and Deities, everyone was equal to them. Their names are of Brahma (God of Creation), Vishnu (God of Preserver), and Shiva (God of Destruction); those three Gods were born with the whole universe.
Here is the picture of 3 main Hindu gods, left Brahma, middle Shiva, and right Vishnu. Source
One day they came up with the idea to create 3 realms Heaven Mortal and Hell so they could put an end the war. They sent Deva to the Heaven realm, Humans to the Mortal realm, and Demons to the Hell realm. After thousand or so years the humans started to get stronger they were not weak anymore and they were leaving peacefully. Then out of nowhere, those three gods saw the future that the humans were wiped out from the face of the “Htrae” by Demons. Shiva asked the gods Vishnu and Brahma, “What should we do? Humans are going to face life extinction disaster” Brahma said, “We can’t go to “Htrae” because “Htrae” won’t be able to handle our weight and will be destroyed” with worry expression.
Brahma gave Ravana boon of being invincible against, Devas, Demons, or Monsters and Shiva gave him Chandrahas sword (Moon blade) for his bravery and devotion. Vishnu said, “it’s both of your faults for giving those boons after getting happy with his penance.” Shiva and Brahma said, “It, not our fault, he is our devote and we were pleased with his devotion and bravery so we granted whatever he had asked for, plus we didn’t know he is going to go on the wrong path with these power we granted him.” Vishnu thought and said, “Why don’t I send my avatar down to “Htrae” to defeat the Demon “God” Ravana because only Human can defeat him now I will take human form to defeat him.” Shiva with happy expression said, “That a good Idea and I will give my Divine bow to you to fight with Moon blade sword.” Vishnu said, “But my human form can’t take that Divine bow, the infant body won’t be able to handle the weight of your bow. ”Shiva said, “How about this I will give my Divine bow to King Janaka and you can go and get the Divine bow when your human form gets old enough.” Then Vishnu said, “That a good Idea.”
Shiva’s presence went to “Htrae” to give the Divine bow to King Janaka. Shiva told him that; “Human would face a big catastrophe in two decades so I am giving my Divine bow to you and in future, a brave human will come to take that bow from you.” King Janaka said, ”How will I know when he will come and who should it be, what cast?” Shiva said, “How about this in the future when you are trying to find the husband for your daughter, hold a contest where the rule is who can pick up and bend the bow will marry your daughter, that way you can find the warrior and husband for your daughter.” After saying that Shiva left and King Janaka was waiting for that one individual.
After 20 years Vishnu avatar was all grown up and his name was Rama. Rama was traveling with his little brother Lakshmana and their guru, there they heard about the contest held by King Janaka. The contest is that if you are able to pick up this Shiva bow you will be the greatest warrior ever and will also marry my daughter. Rama was exited after hearing the news so he wanted to go and participated in the contest and they also heard King Janaka daughter was really beautiful and peerless so he wanted to see if that was true or not. They finally reached Mithila, the kingdom of King Janaka. Finally, the contest started, one by one all the Warrior, Nobles, Kings went to the stage where the bow was placed to pick up the bow but no one was able to pick up the bow. At the end, Rama went to stage to pick up the bow but as soon as he went up the stage everyone started to laugh at him because he was a Rishi (sage) but they didn’t know he was Rishi and warrior.
In just 20 seconds everyone was shocked, they couldn’t believe their eyes that a rishi picked up the bow of Shiva and Rama even bent the bow and put the string on the bow. He finally won the contest and also married Sita, King Janaka daughter. And in 2 to 3 years the catastrophe came and Rama with his bow went to Demon Ravana kingdom to kill him because he is the only one who can do it. Rama killed the Ravana and then Rama and Sita lived happily ever after.
Hey Jay I really like the effort you put into writing the story. I always knew you would get really creative from the time you showed me the types of books and comics that you like to read! Anyways, I think that the idea of a parallel universe called "thrae" is kind of cool. I start to think about the Marvel Guardian's of the Galaxy for some reason and just imagine really epic battles. Once again, thanks for sharing this awesome story Jay and I look forward to reading more soon!!
ReplyDeleteHey Jay , I read through your story and when I read the first couple of sentences and it already caught my attention. My favorite stories that catch my attention are action stories. You were really passion went you wrote this story I could tell, it was really written out well and I like your pick. thank you for sharing this story.
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