Indian Epics Blog

Unproductive criticism (source) Howdy everyone, NitroDubbz here. Writing is just communication. Your goal is to put your thoughts into a readers head. By feeling, you become kin to all mankind. So naturally one of the best ways to improve as a writer is to get feedback from others, the audience you're trying to connect with. Criticism then, should be about how the writer could get their point across more clearly. Asking for specificity, or asking to remove unnecessary details. They should give examples and state the intended effect. I found the mirror article very interesting, focusing on what a writer does vs what they don't. Because it's easier to see what you do and how it could be changed, rather than being told what you don't do and trying to fill that void inorganically. The feedforward also seems like a good idea that embraces the growth mindset. You can only change the future, so any relevant criticism should be applicable to future endeavors. Wel...

Nice Macguffin you got there. It'd be shame if someone produced unlicensed replicas of it, eh? (source) Today I'm going to be brainstorming some ideas about weapons in indian epics. Astras are basically supernatural weapons. They have incredibly strong powers and some of them I think need consent from the Gods themselves to be use d. Sword of like Excalibur. Astras https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astra_(weapon) Of all the weapons I read about, the two that are the most interesting were the Teen Baan and the Brahmashirsha Astra, which is featured in the Mabharata. Lord Shiva  [12]  gave  Barbarika  three infallible arrows (Teen Baan). A single arrow was enough to destroy all opponents in any war, and it would then return to  Barbarika 's quiver. The first arrow is used to mark all the things that  Barbarika  wants to destroy. On releasing the third arrow, it would destroy all the things that are marked and will then return to...

https://sites.google.com/view/nitrodubbzportfolio/parashurama STORY NOW AVAILABLE AT THIS LINK Parashurama in days of old (source) By the age of the Fifth Solar Empire humanity was nearing the end of a war that had raged for eons. Their enemy, the Asuras, had been pushed back to the galactic center and was encircled with nowhere to run. The alien Asuras were the same as the Hindu demons. Their home was the heavens, and they were spread throughout the Galaxy. They were red creatures with four arms, three heads, and taller and stronger than any man. Their constitution made them almost invincible. They could survive any injury short of total disincorporation. Humanity's first contact with these extra-terrestrials was thousands of years ago, the details lost to history. What mattered was that in the great battle of Earth lord Parashurama revealed himself. When humanity's empire had been destroyed and pushed back to Sol, Parashurama stepped down from his thousand-ye...

Rama vs Ravana (source) Howdy everyone, NitroDubbz again. Finally we're getting to the juicy part of Ramayana: Rama's battle with Ravana, demon chief of the Asuras. Rama has been forced into exile and now he's living in a hut survivorman-stlye with his wife Sita and his brother Rakshmana. Soorpanakha, Ravana's demon sister, tried seducing Rama but he basically just trolled her and then she got mutilated (fun fact, I guess people think that she is still alive in Sri Lanka, the region where Ravana was king). After returning to Ravana, she told him of Rama and Sita, whom Ravana immediately became infatuated with. Now with the love-quadrangle as their main impetus, Ravana and Soorpanakha are scheming to kidnap Sita with the aid of their uncle Mareecha. Mareecha has faced Rama twice before and wanted nothing to do with their plan, but under threat from Ravana, he capitulated and assumed the form of a golden deer (actual solid gold, not just golden color) to lure Ra...

Leaked still from Avatar 7 (source) Hello everyone, NitroDubbz here. I have begun reading the R. K. Narayan version of The Ramayana. I will start off with some first impressions. I thought my reading comprehension would be lower, what with all the unfamiliar Indian names, but it's really not that bad. The Ramayana is very dramatic with very large, nonsensically large in fact, scales of things. For example, digging up the Earth to find a horse and inadvertently creating the oceans. Praying for 30,000 years, Vishnu's incarnation walking across the entire universe in two steps, Indra being covered in vaginas, Rama stringing a giant bow. I don't know if you've ever tried to string a recurve bow but that's hard enough without it being 100 feet long and belonging to a God. I thought that the story structure would be similar to the classic hero's journey, or bildungsroman. While it certainly consists of similar events, it lacks the character development impo...