Luda's Journey Through Indian Epics

  For these last four weeks of free reading, I chose to read the Sacred Tales of India by D. N. Neogi. I am going to be doing my reading notes over part D today. The Wife Who Cooked Beef a Brahman had a daughter in law he was having a large feast and asked her to cook a variety of curries one of which was made of tortoise flesh the lady asked her maid to try the curry to see if it was good the maid just so and much more she ended eating everything that was cooked the lady was in great distress for she knew her father in law would never forgive her she and her maid set out to the forest to find any sort of meat the maid found a calf and cut it into three pieces and presented it to her lady without looking at what meat it was, the lady took it and began to cook it the meat would not boil and the lady began to worry she could not even begin to think that this meat was beef she was scared it was some prohibited meat and knew she could not feed it to the men the lady told her ...

  For these last four weeks of free reading, I chose to read the Sacred Tales of India by D. N. Neogi. I am going to be doing my reading notes over part C today. The Sun's Twin Sons This story is about Jokai who was still young at this point and unmarried she was in the brahman caste one day the king needed rice patties, but it was raining all day and they would not dry in time for his ceremony he knew that Jokai had the powers to reach to tell the sun to dry them he called her over one day and asked for her help she said the shine would shine the next day she prayed to the god daily and was fully devoted to him she was worried though that prayer would not suffice and that he would want something more tempting she offered the god herself in return that he would shine the next day he could not resist and agreed he shone oh so bright the next day and loaded Jokai with gifts she was ashamed to be getting married at such a young age so when the god came she hid she would not ...