Story Week 14

Early on in two young boys lives was a great match between these two boys. They played a golf match just between the two of them at their local club and the loser had to buy a the other one lunch. Bill and Ryan were the two boys names and Bill was in the trees on the last hole. Bill had a one shot lead and knew if he tied the hole then he would get a free lunch. While this seemed like a lot to the boys at the time it would be nothing for them in the future. Bill decided the only way for him to win would be to move his ball from out underneath the tree and all while Ryan wasn't looking. What he didn't know was that their was an old man playing a different hole that happened to see Bill move his ball. Bill ended up winning and got his free lunch but after the round the old man asked him what he did and Bill denied all allegations that he moved his ball. The old man told bill that his cheating would come back to haunt him one day and that he had upset the golf gods forever more.

Fast forward 20 years and Bill and Ryan were playing professional golf together in the biggest tournament of the year. They came down to the last hole and it was all tied up. The winner of this tournament would be considered the best player in the world and would win a prize money of 10 million dollars. Bill once again hit it in the trees and whenever he walked up to his ball he was directly against a tree and had no chance to hit the ball at the green. Bill had to hit the ball out backwards and would end up making a 7 on the hole thus promoting Ryan to win the tournament and collect the prize of 10 million dollars. After the round Bill knew that his Karma had come back to haunt him and realized that his loss was stemmed from that day so long ago. Bill went up to Ryan after the round and told him what he did to him so long ago. While Ryan did not care now as he had just won 10 million dollars, Bill told Ryan that he stills owes him a lunch and promptly went to buy Ryan that lunch that he cheated for 20 years back.

DasharathaAuthors Note: Dasharatha killed a young boy when he was also a young boy and had gotten cursed by the boys father that he also would get taken away from his son once he had one. I told the story of Bill also getting cursed for what he did.

King Dasharatha

Reading Guide: Week 14

Dasharatha accidentally kills a young boy when he was also young and he has to tell the boys parents. The old man curses a young Dasharatha and says that he too will have his sons parted from him. Dasharatha has three wives but none of them produce a son so he decided to perform a sacrifice to the gods so they will grant him a son. When a celestial being arose from a fire he told Dasharatha that if his wives ate the payasa they would have sons.  That is when one of his wives gave birth to Rama who was  the kingdom favorite. Rama is sent to do battle and in the mean time he wins his wife Sita. Kaikeyi has two wishes from Dasharatha after she saved him on the battle field and she uses them to make Bharata the new king and send Rama into exile. Dasharatha tries to convince her otherwise but he has to stay true to his promise of two wishes. Rama goes into exile with his wife and Dasharatha remembers the curse and dies on Rama’s 6^th day of exile.

Dasharatha

The cover of the comic of Dasharatha

Reading guide: Week 14

This starts with a lot of the same how Draupadi is won by Arjuna and is taken as the wife of the five pandavas. Arjuna takes his punishment and goes into exile away from his brothers and wife and embarks on a pilgrimage. Arjuna visits the holy places and goes to find that Subhadra's betrothed to Duryodhana. He decides he will take her as his wife instead. He is instantly stuck by Subhadra's beauty and krishna tells him to run away with her. Arjuna takes Krishna chariot to find Subhadra and takes her off into the forest. their is a search party to get the wife of Duryodhana  but before they left they asked for the advice of Krishna. Krishna tells them of what happens and tells the party that subhadra would rather be with Arjuna and to welcome them peacefully to their village. Arjuna exile is over and wants to go home to the Pandavas royal city but is worried about what Druapadi will do. She is mad at first but ends up taking in Subhadra as a sister peacefully.

the Beautiful Subhadra

Subhadra

Story Week 13: The final play

It was the final play of the national championship and it was going to come down between two people. Alabama was known for having the biggest man in college football standing at a full 6'11 305 pounds but all muscle. He played outside defensive end and would wreck havoc whenever he was on the field. He had been a thorn in Oklahoma's side all night but they had somehow managed to keep the game close through great passing and running away from him. It was fourth and goal from the five yard line and it was going to won or lost on this play. The Sooners were trying to find a play that ran away from the big man but when they saw the defense that Alabama put out they were stacking the other side of the field. The Oklahoma quarterback called a time out because he knew they stood no chance with the play that was called. Once on the sideline the Oklahoma coach was thinking of a play when their star running back stepped up. He said that he wanted the ball and would run full on toward the big man and take him down. While a lot of the guys on the team thought this play would never work the Oklahoma head coach had faith in his star running back. He called the play so that the running back would get a pitch running to the left side and it would just be one on one with the big man. The center snapped the ball to the quarter back and sent the pitch sailing out to the left for the running back. The big man read the play just as they had hopped and started down the goal line to make the game winning stop. The running back had his plan all along that once they met up he knew the big man would lower his head and right at that moment he would make his move. The running back turned the corner and got to the 1 yard line when he say the big man lowering his head to make the tackle. The running back sees him lower his head and at that moment jumps as high as he can and hurdles the big man to fall into the end zone for the game winning touchdown.

Authors note: In this story I talked about Kumbhakarna, the big giant, and how he had to fight Rama after Ravana couldn't defeat Rama. Kumbharkarna is the biggest man in the world and was un beatable until Rama did. The big man is Kumbharkarna and Rama is the Oklahoma running back.

The Oklahoma running back winning the game

Kumbhakarna: the sleeping giant 

 

Reading Notes: Week 13 Part B

Kumbhakarna: the sleeping giant

Kumbhakarna is a giant that was know for being a great warrior and could even beat the god Indra in battles. Indra is worried that Kumbharkarna is going to become too strong so he has him make a foolish wish. This is part of the story where Rama returns to gain back Sita and he has to first confront Chasmalochana. Ravana himself then comes to confront Rama after the battle with chasmolachana. Ravana is unable to defeat Rama and so he brings in the help of Kumbhakarna and he wakes up very hungry. While Rama's army is terrified of Kumbhakarna their are two warriors that mount an defense agains him. Rama takes on Kumbharkarna in the battle field but is ultimately defeated by Rama. Once Kumbharkarna is dead Ravana knows that he is doomed by the hands of Rama and his army.

Kumbhakarna

Kumbhakarna: the sleeping giant

Reading Notes: Week 13

The Rustic and the Nightingale: The nightingale is able to help out the Rustic because he let it go and then the nightingale told the rustic where a pot of gold was lying.

The Partridge and the Hawk: the Partridge is scared of the flesh eating hawk and won't come out of his hole but once he does the hawk pounces and kills the poor partridge.
The king, the falcon, and the drinking cup: the king was thirsty so he found a stream but once he tried to drink his falcon would knock it out of his hand. this angered the king and he killed the falcon but he later found out the stream was filled with the poison of a dragon and the falcon was just trying to save it.
The hare, The fox, the Wolf: the wolf wanted to eat the hare but he instead directed him to the fox who tricked both of them into falling into a pit thus leading to the hare's death and the fox getting away.

The merchant and his iron: Two merchants in town try to mistake each other by not returning each others rightful property.
The lean and fat cat: The greediness of the lean cat led to its demise as it died by trying to get more food.
The king, the hermit, and two prince: Their were two princes and they were left a certain amount of money once the king died. One blew all the money and the other had it taken by the older prince but he learned to live and end dup finding all the rest of the kings treasure letting him take over the crown again.
The lion and the Hare: the lion made a mistake and did not trust his own reflecttion thus killing himself in the process.
The crane and the crab: The crane tried to trick the crab but the crab was smart by getting a ride on the cranes neck so when the crane tried to eat the crab he snapped the cranes neck killing him.
The crow, the jacket, the wolf and camel: All the animals in the kingdom wanted to kill the camel for food but the lion wouldn't allow it until the camel said he would sacrifice to save the lion and once this happened they all pounced.
The camel driver and the Adder: the Adder had no gratitude and believe he could fit in a bag but the fox knew he could but bet he couldn't forcing him into the bag thus leaving him trapped for death so the fox, camel driver, and camel could get away.

children stories

the camel in these stories

Week 12 Reading: Buck's Ramayana

Sauti and Saunaka are the two people that are in the Naimisha Forest and Sauti is telling the story of the Ramayana. He starts by telling the story of the times before Rama and how rama is born with his other brothers. He goes on to tell the battles of the Rakshasas and their battles with the brothers. The Rakshasas get stronger with time and are known to be great warriors from their leader Ravana. Raven was granted many powers by Brahma. Ravana goes on to have a son named Meghanada. Ravana continues to cause more and more discretion and forces the people to retreat to the mountains. Raven was strangled by Arjuna after he attacked him in the river while taking a bath and had to be saved by Pulsyte his grandfather. This part of the story is how Rama and Lakshmana become partners under the guidance of Vishwamitra. Rama breaks the bow of Shiva and doing so he is able to marry Janaka daughter Sita. Rama's brothers also marry daughters of the same household. Once married they return to Ayodhya

Part A Buccks Ramayana

Wedding of Rama and Sita