Reading: "A Python Captures Bhima"

A Python Captures Bhima 
  • I hope i'm doing this right this time!
"One day, a python grabbed Bhima. As Bhima struggled, the snake said, "I was King Nahusha. I took Indraloka from Indra. I also took Indra's queen, Shachi. But she tricked me: she said the Saptarishis must carry me to her on a palanquin, and when the rishis walked slowly, I kicked one in the head. He cursed me to live as a python until someone named Yudhishthira freed me."
"Yudhishthira's my brother!" Bhima shouted.
"You're jussssst ssssssaying that..." hissed the python. 
"Help!" Bhima yelled.
His brothers came running and, at Yudhishthira's touch, Nahusha shed his snake-body and ascended to heaven."

  • A snake captures Bhima in order to be freed. Bhima cried that Yudihthira is Bhima'a brother who the snake mentions can free him. 
  • At-last the snake is touched and is freed to heaven
  • I don't know if there is a moral to this story but it is a story nonetheless, maybe that everything has a right time and purpose to be fulfilled through destiny

Bibliography

Image Source:
Jaya: An Illustrated Retelling of the Mahabharata, Page 187, Devdutt Pattanaik.
https://www.indictoday.com/long-reads/mahabharata-metaphors-king-nahusha-the-immense-fall-and-the-great-reformation/


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