Just finished sometime back 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. Hope I have succeeded.
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| PIC: bookflow.in The Shiva Trilogy |
In the Trilogy, the mythological
story of Hindu God Shiva, the Neelkantha is beautifully humanized and
intertwined as if he walked on this planet earth 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 (divine weapons) 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 the great
warriors to fight and destroy the evil of Somras.
Amish through his novels 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 own 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 Shiva Triology viewed from
the Human Eyes of novelist Amish Tripathi, concludes with an old man, wrinkled Shiva,
sitting at Mansarovar Lake, Himalayas 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!
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