KAMADEVA : THE GOD OF DESIRE by Anuja Chandramouli

Author:Anuja Chandramouli [Chandramouli, Anuja]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9788129132796
Publisher: Rupa Publications
Published: 2014-08-13T18:30:00+00:00

The Estrangement and the Reunion

or the longest time, after the mysterious nocturnal disappearance of Krishna and Rukmini’s seven-day-old son, Pradyumna, the details of this tragedy were all people could talk about in the Three Worlds. The Yadavas were distraught and the entire kingdom was plunged into deep mourning. They treated the heartbroken Rukmini’s loss as their own and the soldiers, as well as every able-bodied man and woman who had volunteered to somehow unearth his whereabouts, scoured their own land as well as neighbouring kingdoms trying to ferret out his location. The nonexistent trail left them heartsick and weary, but still they searched, refusing to give up. The Gods were flooded with prayers to repatriate their beloved prince whom they had grown to love as much as their beloved Krishna, but their prayers went unanswered. Their efforts were utterly and inexplicably to no avail, and finally, having learned nothing more than when they had started out with, the searchers returned to the kingdom to deal with the tragedy.

It defied the laws of logic that a scion of the noble Yadu clan could simply vanish from a heavily guarded palace in the impregnable fortress city that was Dwaraka. Krishna had raised the city (which was said to be ninety-six miles long) from the bottom of the sea and transferred his people from Mathura to this magic safehold with his yogic powers, to keep them safe from the mighty Emperor Jarasandha. The ruler of Magadha had a personal axe to grind with Krishna who had killed Kamsa and left his darling daughters, Asti and Prapti widowed. Seventeen times, Jarasandha declared war on the Yadavas and seventeen times, his army was annihilated to the last man and only the Emperor himself left standing by Krishna, for reasons best known to him.

The stubborn monarch returned for the eighteenth time but on this occasion, the Yadus also had to deal with Kalayavana, one of the most fearsome warriors of the age. Unwilling to sacrifice a single one of his beloved subjects to either of the predators who circled them relentlessly, Krishna had conjured up Dwaraka to protect his people and take them out of Jarasandha’s grasp forever, leaving him free to deal with the threat posed by his enemies.

The Yadus told and retold this story to each other, feeling that their city had somehow let them down by failing to protect their prince. It was unbearable that cruel fate had outsmarted Krishna and deprived him of the son who had been gifted to him by Shiva himself. The God who walked among men, and his wife Rukmini, had gone long years without the blessing of children.

Rukmini, believed to be the incarnation of Vishnu’s consort, Lakshmi, never complained for she had always believed that with Krishna by her side she would never ever have cause to be anything but happy. It was this that had prompted the hitherto docile and obedient princess to chuck caution out the window and follow her heart. Even as a child, she had decided that she would marry none but him.

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