Sunday, December 10, 2017

Satyawati -27 Comments

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27. The Hell Called "Pum"

Scripts say, a person who dies childless
Shall not attain the heavenly abode
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Unnikrishnan Sivasankara Menon
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Rebecca Navarre 08 October 2018

Powerfully written and powerfully moving! .. Thank you ever so much for sharing this! .. Ever so very many 10S! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! +++++

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Unnikrishnan E S 08 October 2018

Lovely observation from the lovely poet. Thank you

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Susan Williams 19 May 2018

What? Refused by him, I lost all hopes / Resigned to the inevitable / I confined myself to the antapura / No more confident to face the world. - - - - ] well, I thought she had more fight in her than to give up.... hmmm... maybe she is just charging her batteries so to speak... or maybe fate is about to step in and change his mind. Cliff-hangers, cliff hangers! ! ! 10

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Unnikrishnan E S 19 May 2018

Hi Susan, This is what the epic says. Is the characterisation of Satyawati a little flawed here?

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Rini Shibu 10 December 2017

A childless man shall not attain heavenly abode, interesting, it's new information to me. Well penned . Thanks for this poem

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Unnikrishnan E S 19 April 2018

Hi Rini, Most of the Indian Scriptures are penned by men. So they are inevitably. Man-centric. In this poem, I have not dared to deviate from the script much. forgive me for that.

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Unnikrishnan Sivasankara Menon

Unnikrishnan Sivasankara Menon

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