Just finished reading the
three novels of Shiva Trilogy; i) the Immortals Of Meluha, ii) The Secrets of
Nagas and iii) The Oath Of Vayuputras by Amish Tripathi, though it took more than six months to complete the reading.
This is my first attempt to write a book review which I acknowledged is greatly
inspired by a friend, Shrikant Pande for
some of his recent exemplary reviews. Thanks
Shrikant.
In the Trilogy, the
mythological story of Hindu God Shiva, the Neelkantha is beautifully humanized
and intertwined as if he walked on this planet in the annals of history from
Mansarovar Lake in Himalayas through the wide canvas of India, starting from an empire of Meluha created by Lord Rama, to
Aydhya, and then to the land of Nagas in east, the Branga in search of evil,
passing the journey through Pachavati,
the Naga capital on the bank of river Godavari in the west and further far west
to the land of Pariha to obtain daiviashtra to fight the evil of Somras, the
elixir of life manufacturing facilities at Meluhan capital, Devagiri under the
kingdom of King Daksha, causing the poisoning the river Brahmaputra and leading
the river Saraswati to die. Shiva meets many obstacles and faces numerous hostilities in the journey but walks away
victorious always as a righteous fighter.
The Shiva meets Sati in Meluha, the daughter of King Daksha, marries
her, the son Kartik is borne and later at Branga realizes that Sati's first
child Ganesh is still alive with her
twin sister, Kali, the Naga queen. They all join Shiva as great warriors to
fight and destroy the evil of Somras. Amish through his novels also leads to
the philosophy of balancing the good and evil as both being the two sides of
the same coin and both serving a purpose at particular points in the wheel of
time. The good believes that there is a time when the evil is to be just taken
out of the equation, not to be destroyed completely as the same will serve a
purpose of good at another time. While Shiva returns with the
daiviashtras-pashupatiashtras from Pariha, he finds that the war has ended at
Meluha and his beloved wife Sati has been killed through a cruel conspiracy
enacted by none other than her father, king Daksha to assassinate Shiva. Learning this, Shiva is so infuriated that
the capital of Meluha is totally destroyed by him using the pashupatiastras,
though forbidden by Vayupuras at Pariha and wiping out the somras manufacturing
facilities completely, but saving the lives of scientists associated with the
objective of larger good that the somras might be required at another point of
time. The evil is just taken out of the equation by Shiva. The story concludes
with an old man, wrinkled Shiva, sitting at Mansarovar Lake some thirty years
later. The human legend thereafter regarded as God, for his righteous acts and
as destroyer of evil and the savior of good.
Har Har Mahadev; each one of
us is Mahadev, the Shiva!
