Epics of India Fall 2020

    Bibliography:  Shri Krishna of Dwarka and Other Stories by C.A. Kincaid (1920) Image from FreePik      One day in the jungle there were five monkeys who were really good friends. Each monkey was a different color and their names corresponded to their colors. They were Red, Yellow, Blue, Green, and Orange. Each day the monkeys would roam the jungle looking for food. Their favorite food were bananas, but in this jungle that was the one fruit that was scarce. Everywhere they looked they saw apples, oranges, lychees, and berries. Red was fed up with the same fruits over and over, he craved bananas, but there were none to be found in the whole jungle.      The monkeys decided to split up on a nice afternoon and went to parts of the jungle that they have never explored before. Yellow went to the part of the jungle and found a cave. At the mouth of the cave he heard loud snoring and curiosity got the best of him. He decided to follow the n...

                                Bibliography:  Shri Krishna of Dwarka and Other Stories  by C.A. Kincaid (1920) Surya gives Satrajit, a devout follower of Surya, the Syamantaka jewel which glows bright and brings good fortune to good people and death to evil. It also protects the city of Dwarka from enemies and nature.  Satrajit's loses the jewel and a few people get their hands on it with varying deaths and good fortune occuring.  Krishna goes on a mission to get it back from the bear king and is gone for 21 days and everyone thinks he is dead, but he comes back victorious. Krishna's eldest son Pradyumna was destined to be killed by a demon, but miraculously survived in the belly of a fish which was cut open by the demon's wife who raised the boy as her own. She trained him to kill the demon who tried to slay him and he did so.  He returns to Dwarka and gets a wife, h...

Bibliography:  Shri Krishna of Dwarka and Other Stories by C.A. Kincaid (1920) In a time where demons rule and terrorize the earth, Vishnu decides to intervene and and is reborn as Krishna.  He also reincarnates Shesha a snake who will help Krishna. The demon king Kansa hears a prophecy that Devaki's eight child will slay him, so he puts her and her husband in a dungeon. When Shesha, who is named Balarama, and Krishna are born no matter what Kansa does he cannot kill them because Krishna's divine power protects them.  As Krishna and Balarama grow the village moves to a new location to escape Kansa's attacks, but still Kansa sends demons to kill Krishna and every time Krishna prove his prowess and slays them. Krishna meets Indra because he told the other cowherds not to sacrifice to Indra which angered him and he sent hail and storms, but Krishna shields them from Indra's anger.  Indra sees this and goes down to meet Krishna and names him Govinda or King of the Cows ...