Wednesday, November 11, 2020

Reading Notes: Sacred Tales of India

 Snatched From Death

Savitri who is the daughter of a king falls in love with a man named Satyaban, who is the son of a hermit. Savitri's father wants her to marry a man to continue the offspring, so he holds a council for her to find a husband. She denies and tells her father that she is in love with Satyaban, a man who is of lower class in the caste system. The two get married but one day in the forest Satyaban is cursed and dies in Savitri's lap. She brings Satyaban back from the dead by being granted three boons by Yama, the king of the dead. She does not leave her husbands side so Yama grants her boons. In her final boon, Savitri asked Yama to grant her a hundred sons by Satyaban, each spread out by 100 years. Yama unaware of the complexity of this wish agrees, then later realizes that he must now bring Satyaban back to life. They live happily ever after together. 


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