Posts

Showing posts with the label Week 11

Story: The Syamantaka Jewel

Image
It was the rainy day, everything looked gloomy for Satrajit because he just lost a fortune today because of gambling. Now he barely had money to get by for this month and he had a daughter and wife to feed at home. He made big mistake gambling all his money in the rage to win against his brother Prasena. His own brother tricked Satrajit to make him bet all his money because of his jealousy. Prasena was jealous because he had more money them him but Satrajit didn’t know they he was tricked by his brother Prasena into gambling all of his wealth. While walking along the riverside suddenly Surya the God of Sun presented in front of him because he was a big devotee of God of Sun Surya and to see him in trouble he couldn’t see it. Then Surya the Sun God said to him, “I will give you a boon, and you can have whatever you want.” Satrajit got happy asked for the Syamantaka Jewel that was beside Surya. That Jewel wasn’t ordinary it gave gold, kept wild beast and robber away and it can be on...

Reading Notes: Shri Krishna of Dwarka and Other Stories Part B (week 11)

Image
The topic I choose to write is on Krishna and the book is called Shri Krishna of Dwarka and Other Stories and from that, I choose to take notes on chapter five “The Syamantaka Jewel” from part B. This eight-chapter is about the adventure of the Syamantaka Jewel and the jewel was a boon from Sun god to Satrajit his devote because of the jewel nobody dared to go near Satrajit to cause trouble. My favorite thing of the Syamantaka Jewel was that only man who is not a coward or evil they would be able to keep the Syamantaka Jewel but if they were evil or a coward they would be killed because that how the Syamantaka Jewel work. And that happened to Prasena the brother of Satrajit. Satrajit gave the jewel to Prasena to safe keep it from getting stolen. But lion killed Prasena, he was not a coward but he led an evil life so the jewel backfired. There was one more interesting thing that I got to learn that Krishna married had eight times in his life and princess Jambavati and Satyab...

Reading Notes: Shri Krishna of Dwarka and Other Stories Part A (week 11)

Image
The topic I choose to write is on Krishna and the book is called Shri Krishna of Dwarka and Other Stories and from that, I choose to take notes on chapter five “The Manhood of Krishna” from part A. This fifth chapter is just about the manhood of Krishna such as how he kills all the demons who were wreaking havoc on the Earth. He killed a lot of demons such as serpent Kaliya and he also freed Rishi Angira from the curse and after that fought demon Arishta. The fight of demon Arishta was one of the favorite parts of this story. Demon Arishta took the form of a giant bull because of that he looked two to three times bigger than normal bull and he terrorizing everyone near the Gokula with fear so Krishna decided to fight him and the way the fight was depicted really blew my mind because it was action pack. Such as part where Krishna kills the bull in the novel, “ Krishna caught its horns in both hands and with a deft twist rolled the monster over on its back. Putting one foot on...