i DASHA AVATAR Pecial Issue No. 1 a THE TEN INCARNATIONS OF VISHNU ae _ “ asetervatatet UTA t “se eee a AaIcaal ASUFASA eet Coral A Sarre itet ITER a tt op NOTES TT ET The Avatar concept is the very cornerstone of Hindu theology. According to it, the Supreme Power manifests itself in animal or human forms on earth, with the divine mission of cleansing it of the periodically increasing evil. The Avatar concept is closely related to the measurement of time in Hindu theology which has its basis on one working day of Brahma. According to the Bhagwat Purana, Brahma, the creator, is the causal effect of the predetermined periodic creation and dissolution of the universe. Each creation or Kalpa is equal to one day and each dissolution or Pralaya is equal to one night in the life of Brahma. A Kalpa and a Pralaya last for 4,320 million human years each. Every Kalpa has 1000 cycles of 4 Yugas (ages). Each cycle of 4 Yugas is completed in 4,320,000 human years. The Yugas are called Satya, Treta, Dwapara and Kali. The Satya Yuga (the age when virtue prevails and evil is unknown) lasts for 1,728,000 human years; the Treta Yuga (where virtue falls short by a fourth of the total amount) for 1,296,000 years; the Dwapara Yuga (where virtue has diminished by half) for 864,000 years; and the Kali Yuga — (where but a fourth of virtue remains) for only 432,000 years. Thus a Kalpa © consists of 4,000 Yugas. Each Kalpa is divided into 14 Manvantaras or periods, each lasting for 71 cycles of the four Yugas, and the title Manu is given to the one who presides over each Manvantara. Thus in every Kalpa 14 Manus appear in succession, - each presiding over a Manvantara, rete The Avatars which are considered most significant are-ten in number and they form the “Dashavatar”. These ten start with the form of a lowly fish and work up to the noble man, cast in the image of God. The fanciful find a parallel to, Datwin’s theory of evolution in the progression of these Avatars. toe The Avatars enable the common folk to speak of or listen ta stories of divine doings which is a simple way of proceeding towards Godhead; particularly in our Kali Yuga with its ‘sick hurry and divided aims’. es : i. © Inaia Book House Education Trust, Bombay 400039 All rights reserved. * Published by H.G. Mirchandani for India Book House Education Trust, Rusi Mansion, — 29, Nathalal Parekh Marg, Bombay 400 039 and printed by Deepak G. Mirchandaniat IBH Printers, Marol Naka, Mathuradas Vissanji Road, arn (East), Bombay 400 059. Editor: AnantPai = I : : Script: Kamala Chandrakant IMlustrations: Pratap MulickEXHAUSTED, BRAHMA STRETCHED OUT AND YAWNED. HIS DAYS WORK | WAS QUEL. THE END OF THe CURRENT KALA WAS WMINENT AS HIS EYE | LIPS PROOPED WITH SLEEP,WITHOUT HIS KNOWLEDGE THE VEDAS SEE im OUT OF HIS MOUTH. | IRA 5 HAAG: y |4UT V4 '3THE PRESERVER, CAUGHT ALERT. 7 \HAYAGRIVA IN THE ACT. THIS IS MY CHANCE ! THE ASURA IS i MUST NOW - ABSORBING THE CONCENTRATE WITH ss , VEDAS. THEY WILL ‘ ALL MY MIND AND at BE LOST TO THE THE VEDAS FALLING NEXT KALPA. 1 MUST | OUT OF THE CREA- é % RETRIEVE THEM. p TOR’S MOUTH THERE ARE BUT A WILL ENTER - FEW DAYS LEFT MINE. Iomar chitra katha ERED WHAT TO DO; HE SAWN) AS SATYAVRATA , SCOOPED UP THE || NOEL. OF WATER — — GAGE, GAT YAVRATA, A STAUNCH | | FFERING WATER TO THe WHAT’S THIS? WILL TAKE THE FORM OF | |A WEE FISH .POOR A FISH AND RETRIEVE THE) |CREATURE -HOW VEDAS WHILE DOING A FRIGHTENED? IT GOOD TURN TO MY DEV-| | MUST BE! I’LL OTEE.HE SHALL LIVE DROP IT BACK THROUGH PRALAYA TO | |INTO THE BECOME. THE MANU OF RIVER, > \ THE SEVENTH MAN- hee \ VANTARA OF THE 4 \.NEXT KALPA O KIND KING , DO NOT THROW ME BACK INTO THE WATER «HELPLESS AS | AM, OTHER CREATURES OF THE RIVER WILL SOON EAT HE WAS ABOUT TO DO 5O WHEN — | HE PUT THE FISH INTE KAMANDALM +++ ENTE TD,JASHA AVATAR GHAT MGHT,HOWEVER, \™ THE MORNING WHEN SATYAURATA WENT 7 GREW AND GREW | SEE WT FILLED THE WHOLE IFAT WAS Ale RIGHT — [O KING, THIS | |KAMANDALU | 15 TOO SMALL. fF | |PLEASE FIND A MORE SPA- ClOUS VESSEL FOR ME. \REMOVING /T FROM THE |KAMANPALU; SAT YAVRATA PLACED IT IN A LARGE VESSEL OF WATER- O KING, EVEN THIS VESSEL IS TOO SMALL «| HAVE SOUGHT YOUR PRO- TECTION . YOU MUST FIND THE LIVING SATYAVRATA PUSHED THE VESSEL TO A LARGE FOND WEAR THE HERMITAGE AND a WIPPED THE FI5H INTO IT. } = Sf O KING, LEAD ME JO I ~S] ‘Kirg F A LAKE-A DEEP, LARGE ONE «| WILL DIE IF ‘ | REMAIN FIERE.amar chitra katha [SAT YAVRATZ OK T 15H TOA rYAVRATA FOOK THE FISHY OBER OF LAKES: EACH LARGER \MeaN THE PREVIOUS ONE» OUT HERE AND GO, THE GIGANTIC CREATURES OF THE SEA MAY EAT ME. 1 NEED MORE WATER;O KING. YOU ARE BOUNP TO PROVIDE IT. 7” WHO ARE YOU | HAVE NEITHER SEB} HAVE GROWN BIG ENOUGH TO COVER THE LARGEST OFDASHA AVATAR YOU ARE! LORD NARAYANA*® FORGIVE ME ! ee +WHY HAVE YOU COME. IN THIS LOWLY HAIL TO YOu, SuP— || FORM © == REME ONE .| KNOW YOU) Sj ASSUME DIFFERENT | = FORMS AND COME TO | = \ EARTH FOR THE GOOD, SEVEN DAYS FROM NOW, ALL THE THREE WORLDS WILL BE SUBMERGED BY THE OCEAN WHICH WILL RISE FOR THE DISSOLUTION OF CREATION.omar chitpestéllia MEANWHILE, YOU MUST — | COLLECT ALL THE a HERBS AND SEEDS ANP ANIMALS YOU WANT FOR THE NEXT KALPA . THEN, ALONG WITH THE @ SAPTA RISHIS - £ | |GET INTO THE ==] BOAT AND AWAIT ME. DON’T. FORGET TO BRING VASU- KI,KING OF THE SER- PENTS, WITH You. WY AT THAT TIME A 15 BOAT ME WILL cH YOu. WHEN HAYAGRIVA SAW THE GIGANTIC FISH APPROACH,HE WAS FILLED WITH TERROR« BUT | MUST NOT OPEN MY MOUTH LEST | LOSE THE VEDAS. T WAS EASIER AND — SAID THERE! THE VEDA ! 5 = ( SAFE“ WiLL RESTORE THEM + RAHMA AS HE WAKES NDS alas: Sy 3 ALS haDASHA AVATAR BEVEN DAYS LATER, HUGE CLOUDS GATHERED OVER THE OCEAN. THE RAIN POUREP DOWN IN TORRENTS-THE OCEAN BEGAN RISING AND HUGE TIPAL WAVES BEGAN SWALLOWING THE FARTH. >” y MEDITATE. ON — a THE LORD. HE HAS PROMISEP US DELIVERANCE. Za * <: 7 AS ADVISED BY THE FISH, SATVAVRATA AND THE SAPTA RISHIS WAITED ON THE SHORES . SUDDENLY — AH! THERE COMES THE BOAT AS THE LORD HAD PROM— ISED. BE PRE- PAREP TO GO ON BOARD. [AS SOON AS THE VESSEL TOUCHED THE SHORES, SATYAVRATA, ALONG WITH THE SAPTA RISH/IS ANP THE SELECT LIVING CREATURES, BOARDED IT: |amar chitra katha AS THEIR BOAT WAS TOSSED ABOUT BY THE TURBULENT OCEAN, THEY” SUDDENLY SAW THE FISH APPROACH THEM.IT HAD A HORN NOW AND was GOLDEN IN COLOUR. IT LIT UP THE DARKENING SKIES, REASSURING THE INMATES OF THE BOAT. FASTEN THE VESSEL TO MY HORN, USING VASUKI AS A ROPE. ONE OF YOU SHALL COME TO ANY HARM. : Nace WHILE THEY SAILED ON THAT VAST EXPANSE OF WATER, THROUGHOUT THAT NIGHT"OF BRAHMA , VISHNU TAUGHT SATYAVRATA AND THE |SAPTA RISHIS THE HIGHEST FORM OF TRUTH WHICH HAS COME DOWN TO.US AS A COLLECTION OF PURANIC LORE ; CALLED THE MATSYA PURANA \THUS PID VISHNU SAVE TRUE PEVOTEES FROM DISSOLUTION SO THAT THEY MIGHT CARRY DIVINE KNOWLEDGE TO THE NEXT KALPA.DASHA AVATAR IT WAS THE SIXTH MANUVANTARKA OF THE PRESENT KALPA » INDRA » THE DEVAS,ANP HIS SUBJECTS WERE IN TROUBLE. CONSULTATIONS AMONG IMEMSELVES DID NOT PROVIDE ANY SOLUTION. 30 THEY DECIDED TO GO TO BRAHMA THE CREATOR »WHO LIVED ON MOUNT MERU- SIRE, WE HAVE COME. TO YOL! FOR HELP. THE CURSE OF DURVASA HAS TURNED US INTO A WEAK AND LACK- LUSTRE LOT. WE ARE HELPLESS WE BECOME LISTLESS: ON THE BATTLEFIELD AND OUR FORCES FALL DEAD IN LARGE NUM— BERS, NEVER TO RISEAHMA MEDITATED FOR A - WHILE. THEN= a ct ca O OMNISCIENT ONE, YOU KNOW WHY WE, THE GUARDI- ANS OF THE WORLD, HAVE COME .WE. SURRENDER OUR— SELVES TO YOU, SHOW us A WAY OUT OF OUR PLIGHT- WP Let us TAKE REFUGE IN LORD VISHNU. HE ALWAYS HELPS THOSE WHO PLACE FAITH IN HIM. BESIDES, IT 1S HE WHO PRESERVES THE KORDER OF THE UNIVERSE-_A ——— [ORD VISHING! SPORE IN HIS DEEP, RESONANT VOICE. [—- you WILL HAVE TO | stRIvE HARD AND OBTAIN THE NECTAR OF IMMOR- TALITY. THAT [9 THE ONLY ne OQuT FOR HOW SHOULD WE OBTAIN THE NEC- TARO LORD & ERS INTO THE OCEAN OF MILK» THEN CHURN THE OCEAN USING — MOUNT MANDARA AS A CHURN -DASHER ‘AND VASUKI, KING OF THE SERPENTS,AS TH : ROPE FOR TURNING IT = 7 >DASHA AVATAR BUT LORD, HOW ARE WE TO. SHIFT ‘YOU MUST BE CAREFUL,HOW. EVER,NOT TO COVET ANY OF THE THINGS THAT COME |OUT OF THE OCEAN AND NOT TO GIVE VENT TO ANGER EVEN IF THOSE THINGS ARE FORCIBLY TAKEN BY THE ASURAS. PEACE WITH YOUR COUSINS AND ENEMIES, THE ASURAS AND USE THEM TO ACHIEVE YOUR END. 1 PROMISE YOU THAT YOUR PJAGGRESSIVE COUSINS WILL f\ NOT ENJOY ANY PART OF THE NECTAR, FOR ALL THEIR TOIL. eA RETURNEP TO HIS OWN ABODE WHILE INDRA AND THE DEVAS OUT FOR THE COURT OF BALI; KING OF THE ASURAS-amar chitra katha YHEN BAL! AND His ASURA FOLLOW © KING ,LET US ‘CAPTURE. THE ROGUES. THEY ARE UNARMED AND HELPLESS- NO-WAIT. PERHAPS THE DEVAS COME. WITH A PRO— POSAL THAT KA MIGHT BE WORTH OUR \ . WHILE» 4 BAL/ RECEIVED INDRA AND THE DEVAS WITH RESPECT AND GAVE THEM ‘SEATS OF HONOUR. INPRA TOLD Film WHY THEY HAD. COME . % ¥ FOR THE BENE- FIT OF ALL OF US, | REQUEST YOU TO FORGET OUR FEUD AND WORK WITH US IN THE VENTURE. BALI, AS WELL AS HIS CHIEFS 5 FAV OURED TH SAL PEACE WAS DECLAREO BETWEEN THE ASURAS AND THe Daag. hs r i> LET US NOT WASTE ANY TIME ,INDRA. RALLY YOUR FORCES, WHILE | RALLY MINEYSS AND LET US 5 BEGIN THE WORK wi Y rey 4 af ay ’DASHA AVATAR AND TAKING IT TO THE SEASHORE, | ALITTLE L | THEIR. He INDRA d UPROOTING MOL NT MANDAK OO- OH ! | CANNOT CARRY IT ANY MY ARMS HAVE ALMOST FALLEN a, OUT OF THEIR SOCKETS. [ wHY DID We EVER AGREE TO SUCH AN INSANE. PROPOSAL?‘amar chitra katha MEANWHILE — [HE MIGHTY MOUNTAIN FELL » CNeHING LARGE NUMBERS OF | [Gevas AND ASURAS UNDER IT. (INDRA WAS DESPERATE. EN. O LORD, WHAT ARE WE TO DO NOW © PLEASE COME TO OUR @) AID» OR WE F\ SHALL PERISH» FASTER, GARUDg THE DEVAS ARE~ IN TROUBLE. WITH A MERE GLANCE, HE [EVEN BEFORE INDRA | [REVIVED THE DEVAS. APPEALED TO HIM, THE LORD HAP REACHED THE SPOT- tebe Ae THEN, PLACING MOUNT MANDARA ON GARULA’S BACK, HE FLEW TO THE SEASHORE, FOLLOWED 8Y THE DEVAS AND THE ASURA woDASHA AVATAR cn eet ae AFTER THE MOUNTAIN WAS SAFELY WHEN HE SAW THAT GARUDA DEPOSITED ON THE SEASHORE, [eee ) FLOWN AWAY, VASUK/ VISHNU TURNED TO GARUDA. IMMEDIATELY OBEYED , ie = VISHNL?S SUMMONS. PLAY Your. ROLE WELL, VASUKI, AND YOU SHALL RECEIVE YOUR SHARE OF THE NECTAR-THE | JAGGED SURFACE OF MANDARA SHALL NOT HURT! YOu AT ALL. BUT HE 13 AFRAID TO ICOME CLOSER BE- : CAUSE YOU ARE HIS } NATURAL ENEMY - WITHDRAW, DEAR. IGARUDA; AND MAKE ROOM FOR THE KING OF Beer TS- dil = NOW WE ARE READY- COME , FRIENDS AND BROTHERS, LET US CHURN WITH ALL OUR MIGHT FORTHEIR JOY S DESPAIR. THE HEAVY MOUNT MANCARA,; WHICH HAD NOTHING TO SUPPORT /7, SANK INTO THE OCEAN. ALAS 115 THE NECTAR NEVER TO BE OURS® MIF WE, THE MIGHTIEST OF ¢ DEVAS AND ASURAS, COULD NOT HOLD uPeas _ DASHA AVATAR, ANP TO THE AMAZEP DELIGHT OF THE DEVAS AND ASURAS; y NTH THE MOULIN: 7 SAME UP WI LINTAIN ON HIS eek DO NOT WASTE aa yl TIME.ON WITH OUR TASK: @ COME TO OUR AID AGAIN! | CANNOT CONTINUE ANY \.Z LONGER. MY A LIMBS ARE I=] CAN’T SEE. | AM BLINDED.amar chitra: katha__ eS Nailers [FRIGHTENED OUT OF THEIR WITS, THEY RAN TO LORD SIIVA Oo WED AYS NG 760.'' Peace.Do [ a NOT FEAR: | SHALL TAKE IN THE POISON. fr COLLECTING, THE POISON] INTO HIS: eee] ie si veh. AS SOON AS THE POISON WAS REMOVED, TI > ASURAS WERE ABLE TO CHURN THe OCEAN ONCE ALON.DASHA AVATAR [AB THEY CONTINUED CHURNING, MANY PRECIOUS THINGS ROSE TO THE SURFACE ,BUT NOT THE NECTAR. THEN SUDDENLY A BEING LET THE DEVAS NO.NOT YOU; GIVE IT TO \) | WILL. ME.1 AM = YOUR CHIEF. Q‘omar chitra katha Ise DEVAS WATCHED THE ASURAS IN DISMAY. BUT REMEMBERING THE ALG COMMAND THAT THEY SHOULD NOT @UARREL OVER WHAT MEAN VIELDED s THEY MADE NO MOVE VISHNU WAS PLEASED. DO NOT BE DEJECTED. ——— GREED FOR THE NEC~ = TAR HAS ALREADY DIVIDED THEM. NOW “s 1SHALL CHARM THEM ‘ WITH MY POWERS AND GIVE YOU l Z ZB SNS a THEN VISHNU TOOK ON THE FORM OF MOHINI, THE ec EVER SEEN; ANZ. APPROACHED THE ASURAS- eS Aa 5 a oy ‘ie Bee PERFECT HER umes! | SO INFATUATED WERE THE ASURAS, | RAT THEY ENTRUSTED THE UAR OF NECTAR TO HER CARE. PRAY, BEAUTI- FUL ONE , DISTRI- BUTE THE NECTAR SO THAT OUR QUARREL MAY END BRING PEACE ~ TO US»DASHA AVATAR INOT KNOWING WHO SHE REALLY a yi WOHINI TCOK THE JAR «THEN — | WILL DO SO | IF YOU PROM-| NOT TO Qui ION MY! ACTIONS. BATHE AND | ASSEMBLE IN THE MAIN HALL-40U, THE ASURAS,IN ONE ROW AND YOUR K4\ COUSINS, THE DEVAS,| THER. os : WHEN THE DEVAS AND ASURAS HAD ASSEMBLED > MOHIN] BEGAN SERVING THE NECTAR TO THE DEVAS. THE ASURAS WERE UNEASY - | MU tt h b> j ' - 4 Vl \/eESIDES SHE \[ we * p \ HUSH! SISA WOMAN. Y/ WE CAN'T. LET THE NECTAR! ¥ 7 REMEMBER _\ HOW CAN WE { us AWAIT ouR (WHAT IS SHE J) Lue PROMISE? » QUARREL WITH ZA.TURN PATIENTLY: EONG.S bs A HER 2 ASR nee By THE TIME MOHIN REACHED THE END OF THE ROW OF DEVAS SHE MADE SURE THAT THE NECTAR WAS EXHAUSTED. THERE! NOT A 990 prop Lert. IT IS NOT WISE TO OFFER THE NECTAR ye TO THE ASURAS JK WHO ARE AG~ IRE. PEA‘amar chitra katha a ses (Bar VISHNU ONLY SMILED. | S| THEN, TO THE AMAZEMENT OF THE | nsRAS , LORD VIStNE ASSUMED HIS OWN FORM. TT ° IT’S VISHNU! we’VE BEEN / DELUDED! WHERE |S vn HE FLEW AWAY INTO THE | SKIES» i THI We HAVE BEEN | our SIDE, Wee ‘e TT i ISPARE THE 7 EGALoe ag . 7 by WAMORTALITY. QU. FIGHT ON.DASHA AVATAR Oe THE GREAT DEVA-ASURA WAR THAT ENSUED THERE, ON THE SEASHORE s WAS A TERRIBLE ONE. BUT WITH HIS THUNDER-BOLT, INORA ,PESPITE THE SEVERAL REVERSES HE SUFFERED, WAS ABLE TO VANQUISH THE (mercw!) (mercyP) eed FLEE! \ | BLESSED BY LAXMI™ HIS MIGHT AND SPLEN "\ POUR HAVE BEEN RE- ‘STORED TO HIM.THE ASURAS HAVE BEEN SUFFICIENTLY HUM— BLED. GO.REQUEST HIM TO CEASE Y THE GRANDSIRE. ) 1S RIGHT. LET US { RETURN TO ea 3, 1 AND? THUS DIP THE LORD REVIVE _ |THE LOST GLORY OF THOSE WHO IWERE GENTLE AND SOUGHT REFUGE IN HIM AND PUNISH THOSE WHO WERE AGGRESSIVE WP HAD NO FAITH _IN HIM. r * THE GOPPESS OF WEALTH. 2SS = eo —— A. _ AETER PRALAYA,AT THE BEGINNING OF THE NEW KALPA, WHILE ie BRAHMA WAS BUSY IN THE WORK OF CREATION =. ... SANK TO THE BED OF BHOOMIPEVINBEING TOSSED ABOUT ON] | WAVES— __DASHA AVATAR es. . STAND SWAYAMGHUVA MANU AND SHATARUPA CAME INTO BENG: > * KEEP YOUR HEART FREE FROM JEAL- | FATHER, TELL US HOW WE MAY SERVE YOU AS WELL AS EN- SURE OUR HAPPINESS IN THIS WORLD AND THE NEXT- F! VIRTUOUS CHILDREN | AND RULE OVER THE! EARTH, FOR YOU SHALL BE. THE RUL-| ER OF MEN. | SHALL OBEY YOUR WISHES . BUT PLEASE LET ME KNOW WHERE MY PROGENY AND | SHOULD LIVE. BHOOMIDEV! LIES 2~ SUBMERGED. owamar chitra katha: [aRAHMA WAS TROUBLED. VwHat SHALL | DO? | WILL HAVE TO BRING |THE EARTH UP. 0 LORD | VISHNU, PLEASE HELP ME. [EVEN AS BRAHMA GAZED a Meee AMAZED 3 1T GREW =2- oa vee TILL IT WAS = : ee eal th LIES IRE aE IRIEL Baal saDASHA AVATAR ILE BRAHMA PONDERED THIS, THE) BOAR, WHICH WAS NOW AS LARGE AS A HUGE MOUNTAIN » ROAREO- IT 1S NONE OTHER THAN LORD VISHNU! N, EMITTING ANOTHER YING ROAR ,/T TOOK IGHTY LEAP INTO AIR tee‘amar chitra kath HE OCEAN-BEP> wa TILL (T REACHED THE OTHER VTHE OBJECT OF 'TS QUEST— END OF THAT FATHOMLESS . ——= OCEAN ANB DISCOVEREP IN ITS DEPTHS --» | FIE ON THE LORD OF HEAVEN AND HIS DEVAS WHOM | HAVE ararey INTO) HIDING !DASHA AVATAR gusTED ANP VY, HE MARCHED UP TO VARLUNA, LO Dip FEIONING HUMILITY » FELL AT HIS FEET. O SUPREME LORP! ” © GUARDIAN OF A WHOLE SPHERE *! Q RULER OF GREAT FAME! GIVE ME BATTLE- FULLY WELL THAT HE 15 THE MIGHTIER OF THE TWO. | HAVE GIVEN UP FIGHTING. | AM TOO OLD NOW. LORD VISHNU |S THE ONE YOU SHOULD APPROACH. HE ALONE WOULD BE AN EQUAL OPPONENT FOR YOU. GO SEEK U4 HIM OUT, LEARNING FROM THE SAGE NARADA WHERE VISHNU WAS, HIRANYAKSHA CHARGED TOWARDS THE | eae * HYPROSPHERE -amar chitra katha. ANWHILE. THE BOAR HAP [il |2AND LIFTING BHOOMIDEV! ONTO iF.) ae 3 i - UST BUG HIG: TUSK INTO. THE OCEAN -BEO --- | OH! SO HE 15 NOW IN THE FORM OF A WILD BEAST! HIRANYAKSHA CHALLENGED THE BEAST MrT A OES COME ON, YOU BEAST! LEAVE BHOOMIDEV] ALONE. SHE HAS BEEN ENTRUSTED TO_US BY THE MAKER OF THE UNIVERSE.DASHA AVATAR, WEN THE BOAR JENORED HIM am OR oe Y — / 4OU POSSESS LITT! POWER- ALL YOUR BAT- TLES ARE WON BY YOGAMAYA*, YOUR ONLY STRENGTH. BUT NOW YOU ARE TOO CLOSE TO ESCAPE UNSCATHED. THE BOAR CONTINUED RISING AND HIRANYAKSHA GAVE _| =| eT ae “f WAIT! AREN’T YOU ASHAMED OF YOURSELF 2 RUNNING AWAY FROM LET HIM RAVE. MY TASK IS TO TAKE BHOO- MIDEVI TO SAFETY. SHE TREMBLES WITH FRIGHT+ AH! WE’VE ALMOST REACHED THE SURFACE- SHAMELESS WRETCH. THE SHARPEST INSULT FAILS TO_PIERCE YOUR THICK HIDE.aa SOON AS HE REACHED BHOOMIDEV! GENTLY ON AT may YOU SUPPORT, YOURSELF IN KEEP. ING WITH THE Diving ORDER - THEN HE TURNED TO FACE “HIRANYAKSHA , HIS SPEECH HEAVY WITH ie SARCASM. O WRETCH; SCARED AWAY BY YOUR MACE, WE WHO HAVE STOLEN [THE EARTH MUST TAKE OUR STAND IN THE BATTLEFIELD. FOR,HAVING fF INCURRED THE WRATH OF A POWERFUL ENEMY, HIRANYAKSHA BECAME FURIOUS SEETHING WITH ANGER, HE LIFTED #19 MACE AND= DASHA AVATAR FOR A LONG WHILE, GACH STRIKING OWT WITH HIS MACE. (AS THE HOUR OF TWILIGHT DREW NEAR , BRAHMA SPOKE TO THE BOAR.- SLAY HIM BEFORE HE GROWS FORMIDABLE WITH THE APPROACH OF AN HOUR THAT IS FAVOURABLE TO = HIM. SLAY HIM AND RID = US OF, THIS PESTILENCE, Sar HEARING BRAHMA’S WORDS ; URANYAKSHA HURLED HIS MACE [AT THE ANIMAL - [=chitra Katha amar chit iii ns a BO LY HIT THE iA Bi THE BOAR PLAYFUL HF BEHIND HIS a ANVAKSHA BEGA\ THe BO ENRAGED ORTH HIS, FISTS HITT! OAR ON THE CHEST OF THE B © LORD, ONLY YOU (IN YOUR IMMACULATE. GOODNESS COULD |HAVE LIFTED BHOo- MIDEVI TO THE Sur- FACE OF THE OCEAN. ONLY YOUR INVINCIBLE | SELF COULD HAVE SAVED US FROM THIS SCOURGE. eiDASHA AVATAR Va VISHNU IN THE FORM OF A BOAR: ASLURA , HIRANYAKSHA . THE DEVAS WERE HAPPY ANP THERE WAS MUCH REJOICING IN HEAVEN AND ON EARTH, BUT NOT FOR LONG: x » HAND SOME AND RADIANT. LET NOT DEATH : 60 BE IT. COME TO ME EITHER BY MAN OR BEAST, BY PAY OR BY NIGHT; INDOORS OR ouTDOORS; ON EARTH ORIN 4 ME UNDISPUTED LORDSHIP OVER THE MATERIAL fox WORLD. /- © ARMED WITH THE BOONS, THE ASURA LOST NO TIME IN CONQLI : ERING AND BRINGING UNDER His SWAY, BOTH HEAVEN AND inet pe 1 WISH TO ees =DASHA AVATAR ED BY BRAHMA ) THE DEVAS APPROACHED VISHNU THE PRESERVER. | Yulls VOICE REASSURED THEM: [ PATIENCE, ) DEVAS. | KNOW THE EVIL THAT IS HE ASURA. HIS SON, THE HIGH— SOULED PRAHLAD * 15 DEVOTED TO ME. WHEN THE ASURA SEEKS TO KILL MY DEVOTEE,| SHALL SLAY HIM. Fi DEVAS DID NOT HAVE TO WAIT LONG. EVEN AS VISHNU MADE HIS (I TT] V5E, HIRANVAKASHIPL. WAS SCREAMING WITH EXASPERATION c _ $ you Wile INSIST ON | DEFYING ME AND _WOR-' SHIPPING MY SWORN ENEMY; ME, BEFORE WHOM ‘THE DENIZENSY | ¢/)\. ALL THE THREE WORLDS | QUAKE WITH FEAR! P 4 QEEP W CONTEMPLATION OF LORD VISHNE, PRAHLAD DID NOT UTTER | A WORD. HIRANYAKASHIPLE ROARED IN FURY. YOU SEEM TO BE CONFIDENT IN YOUR FAITH.O FOOL 5) CAN-— NOT IMAGINE WHERE YOU GET THE STRENGTH FROM! 4 : Jamar chitra katha HIRANYAKASHIPU BECAME LIVID WITH RAGE. WHOM NOT ONLY |BuT ALSO YOU AND ALL OTHER POWERFUL BEINGS DERIVE THEIRS —THE IF HE 1S ALL-PER-S VADING,HE MUST BE IN \ ff _ THIS PILLAR.| AM GOING =H{ TO SLAY YOU NOW.LET HIM COME AND PROTECT lp RESOUNDING CRASH DROWNED HIG WORDS. THE PILLAR CRACKED AND ; —— =a AN |... LORD VISHNU IN THE FORM OF NARASIMHA® EMERGED SUBSTANTIATED HIS DEVOTEE’S WORDS. re 15 NEITHER A ~\ A BEAST NOR A HUMAN ¥, BEING. WHAT MIGHT THIS. STRANGE ( CREATURE BE © is be eae. * MAN-LIONDASHA AVATAR pa 7 EMBOLDENEP BY THAT THOUGHT; OARING THE ASURA PICKED UP A MACE AND:-- IRA SIMHA He CAME NEAR »NARASIMHA| | HIRANVAKASHIPL HOWEVER HIM, MACE AND ALL,IN A | [SLIPPER THROUGH HIS _ARMS.-~ Be 1HA ITCHING HIS MOVEMENTS , NARASIM. SENT FORTH A SHRILL PEAL OF LAUGHTER FOLLOWED BY A WEIRD. ROAR ~ \ LEE ( Tt AND THE NEXT MOMENT, THE ASURA FOUND HIMSELF IN THE | ~J VICE-LIKE GRIP OF NARASIMHA’S CLAWS + P IT 1S THE TWILIGHT HOUR!DASHA AVATAR ZARRED THE OSLER, TO Tie THRESHOLD OF THE HALL. WE ARE NEITHER INDOORS. NOR QUTDOORS! |Ane THERE ; UNDER THE GREAT ARCH OF THE FECES WARASIMHA |TAREW THE ASURA ACROSS HIS THIGHS .. NEITHER ON EARTH NOR IN THE SkY. ALAS! VISHNU HAS OUTWITTED TH HIS CLAWS.THUS DID VISHNU, BY THE FAITH VOTEE, PREVENT he TRIUMPH OF EVIL. AND ESTABLISH VIRTUE. aamar chitra katha |" vAMANA AVATA} Sal 2 rg) A CLES. a BENT ON CONQUERING THE DEVAS, BALI *% THE KING OF THE ASURAS , GUIDED: 'SHUKRACHARYA HIS: PRECEPTOR; PERFORMED THE _ VISHWAGIT SACRIFICE TS «+ AND RECEIVED FROM THE SACRIFICIAL FIRE A GOLDEN CHARIOT; j ICELESTIAL WEAPONS AND A COAT OF MAIL, FOR THE CONQUEST OF HEAVENbia ARMOUR, BALI MOUNTED THE CHARIOT ANO WITH HIS acess AOVANCED ON AMARAVATI , THE CAPITAL OF THE DEVAS- 2 an Pan AS BAL) LAID SIEGE TO THE CITY, INDRA WENT By TO BRIHASPATIs HIS UPROAR! " PRECEPTOR. THE SOUND FILLS THE SKIES AND SHAKES: WHAT SHOULD WE DO, O |VENERABLE ONE® eee | PALI IS Now Py RIDING SOME STRANGE POWER. WE MAY FAIL IN BEATING BALIVHE 15, SURROUNDING _our city!amar chitra katha ; WHEN YOU ARE RIGHT. curseg GURU BALI AT THE IGNORING Hie MOMENT 1S pike) COUNSEL INVINCIBLE . oP pS |} WOULD ADVISE YOU TO RETREAT FROM HEAVEN TILL THE TIDE TURNS IN YOUR FAVOUR. 50,INDRA AND THE DEVAS ABANDONED HEAVEN AND) BALI PROMPTLY OGLUPIED /T WITH HI5 ASURA HORDES raw Now VU] Le THE LORD OF is ALL THE THREE } | > WORLDS | ~DASHA AVATAR 7 VLE, ADIT! , THE fuusT THEN KASHYAP ENTERED THE OF THE DEVAS, SAT | HERMITAGE. TS Se IG ABOUT THEIR 77 Ley PLIGHT. SAGE KASHYAP, : HER PUSBANP, WAS AWAY IN FOREST, MEDITATING - z| THE HERMITAGE / LOOKS DESOLATE AND ADITI DISTRESSED. | HOPE ALL 15 IF ONLY MY LORD WERE HERE. ah ‘S| \ \ EY IT \/ ASURAS HAVE USURPED. OUR KINGDOM AND WITH IT, OUR SPLENDOUR AND OUR GLORY. YOU MUST HELP MY SONS TO * RETRIEVE THEIR LOST STATUS. AH, MY LORP ! you HAVE RETURNED,‘omar chitra katha DURING THE BRIGHT Hi MONTH OF PHALGUNA, WITH YOUR MIND FIXED ON THE LORD OBSERVE THE PAYOVRATA* VOW THE VOW THAT GRATIFIES HIM THE MOST. PLEASED, HE WILL: GRANT YOUR DESIRES. LORD VISHNU. HE AND HE . ALONE CAN 7 TELL ME THE HELP YOU. ff QUICKEST MEANS OF PROPITIATE DOING IT, MY LORD- HIM. | CANNOT BEAR THE MISERY Mm IN NY Ol . ol SONS A nT LONGER. } |e FOCUSSING HER MIND ON VISHiNes Yow OF TWELVE LONG DAYS: ON THE THIRTEEN INVINCIBLE THOUGH THE ‘ASURAS ARE,O DIVINE LADY, YOUR WORSE GHALL NOT PROVE FRUITLESS’ 1 SHALL ASSUME THE ROLE OF A SON TO YOU AND PROTEGE YOUR PROGENY- Zz Ss AS =e VOW OF MILK (NOTHING BUT MILK THIS VOW.DASHA AVATAR, HS - LATER, ON THE TWELFTH DAY OF THE BRIGHT HALF Hes PADAS Vi HINGE TOOK HHS: DESCENT FROM ADIT. fF = COULD IT BE 4 57 LORD SURYA** HIMSELF COME DOWN TO WITNESS \_OUR SACRIFICE © OM THE SIXTH MONTH OP THE HINDU CALENDAR. ¥ THE SUN-GODamar chitra katha [THEN HE GAVE 7s FS, VAMANA,A SPECIAL SEAT . SS eh gi WASHED HIS FEET. ff Pas 0 || you ® PRAY TAKE FROM ME WHAT— EVER YOU DESIRE. DO NOT HESITATE, © BRAHMACHARI™ WHAT WILL YOu HAVE — A cow,DASHA AVATAR @ SHOOK HIS HEAD. ALL | SEEK IS A STRIP OF LAND, THREE PACES LONG AS MEASURED BY MY STRIDE- — : | | HE WHO CANNOT ‘BE | WING TO WIN ACCLAIM FOR HIS SATISFIED WITH THREE IEROSITY, BAL! WAS DISAPPOINTED | HH VAMANA’S HUMBLE PEMAND- PACES OF LAND WILL NOT BE SATISFIED EVEN / YOU ARE TOO WITH A WHOLE YOUNG TO'BE | | CONTINENT. ALIVE TO YOUR OWN INTEREST- WHEN | AM READY TO || GRANT YOU A | IL WHOLE CON- | TINENT, YOU WANT BUT THREE PACES 2 OF LAND. | THREE PACES OF LAND ARE ALL | NEED AND THREE PAGES OF LAND ARE ALL THAT | WILLamar chitra katha IAT THAT MOMENT SHUKRA CHARYA REALISED THE See HE 15 NONE OTHER THAN LORD VISHNU. NOTHING ¢ CAN BE DONE <1 NOW,O VENERABL! Jy ONE. | HAVE GIVEN MY WORD. J RETRACT IT. IT 1S NOT WRONG TO DO -~= SO WHEN ONE'S je LIFE AND THE LIVES OF ONE’S DEPENDANTS ARE AT. STAKE. 4 (lee. - ayDASHA AVATAR " FURIOUS THAT HIS DISCIPLE HAD DARED TO DISREGARD HIS ADVICE, SHUKRACHARYA CURSED HiM HAVE YOU GROWN sO 4 ARROGANT AS TO IGNORE \ MY COMMAND? CONCEITED | FOOL THAT YOU ARE, YOU WILL SOON FALL FROM YOUR HIGH PD\— POSITION. pee POSITION. HAVING PROMISED ONCE THAT | SHALL GIVE, HOW } CAN 1, BALI, THE GRANDSON OF VIRTUOUS PRAHLAD, REFUSE LIKE A COMMON CHEAT ©! WILL GIVE THIS BRAHMAN THE LAND HE SEEKS,O HOLY SAGE , COME WHAT MAY. BALI’S6 WIFE THEN CAME WITH A GOLPEN FITCHER FULL OF WATER TO WASH VAMANA’S FEET.‘amar chitra katha =DASHA AVATAR HE BEGAN TO MEASURE THE THREE PACES. WITH 6 FRET DE HE COVERED THE EARTH.ee, » ad amar chitra katha GHEDENRAGED ASURAS TOOK UP ARMS ANDTHE 1S NO BRAHMAN. Ta PAN TOWARDS HIM. EZ VISHNU. HIMSELF, NIT 1G i PELUDE US! leur BAL/ STOPPED THEM. fe. = | HAVE BEEN (I cuRSED BY MY GURU. MY FALL P-\_ IS INEVITABLE: AS BOUND BAL! WITH ROPES -+-DASHA AVATAR THOUGH CURSED BY HIS PRECEPTOR, THIS GREAT SOUL DID NOT GO BACK ON HIS WORD: | MUST TEST HIM FURTHER AND ENHANCE HIS REPUTATION 4 WITH THAT INTENTION VISHNU SPORE | [BALI WAS UNPERTURBED. eet WORES TD iit O ILLUSTRIOUS ONE, 1AM YOU PROMISED ME NOT AFRAID OF yet THREE PACES OF LAND) |AT YOUR HANDS AS | AN AND | HAVE COVERED | |OF BEING CALLED ALL THAT WAS YOURS| |!GNOBLE.1 HAD NO, IN TWO. YOU HAVE — | | INTENTION OF FAILED TO KEEP DECEIVING YOu, YOUR WORD- YOU WILL HAVE TO SUFFER FOR IT. PRAY; PLACE YOUR THIRD STEP ON MY HEAD, WHICH 1S MORE VALUABLE J TO ME THAN ALL MY POSSESSIONS Put TO- GETHER- GOVE HIS STATEMENT He BENT 5 HEAD LOW BEFORE VISHNU.as amar chitra katha ‘PRAHLAD APPEARED. ON THE SCENE = af SALUTATIONS TO |¥ou, 0 LORD. YOU HAVE CONFERRED A GREAT FAVOUR ON M4 GRANDSON BY DEPRIVING Him OF HIS WEALTH. FOR, WEALTH CORRUPTS EVEN GREAT But NOT youR GRANDSON’S \ Asma. SOUL. HE STOOD FIRM.BY HIS = PROMISE EVEN AT THE COST OF DISOBEYING HIS GURU AND INVITING HIS CURSE .HE REMAINS SERENE, EVEN IN THE FACE OF / THE CALAMITY WHICH HAS fax HE HAS ALL BUT EARNED ENTRY INTO MY OWN REALMS WHICH EVEN THE DEVAS FIND DIFFICULT OF ACCESS. BUT FIRST HE WILL ENJOY FOR A | WHOLE MANVANTARA THE POSITION OF INPRA AS HE DESIRED IT.DASHA AVATAR ve a = ZFS a wos KING ARJUNA » THE RULER OF THE HAIHAYAS, HARB PROPITIATED LORP DATTATREYA AND HAD SECURED FROM HIM BOONS WHICH MADE HIM INVINCIBLE + BUT ARJUNA MISUSED HIS POWERS AND BECAME A MERCILESS TYRANT - AND ALL SUCH EVIL KSHATRIYAS, LORD VISHNU CAME YOUNGEST SON OF SAGE JAMADAGNI, ANB Ti 7 i Pek & Ly QO VANQUISH HIM O EARTH AS RAMA ,THE IT’S STRANGE THAT 4 SON SHOULD KNOW SO MUCH ABOUT WEAPONS AND THEIR USE-‘amar chitra kathor te FS TRUE. THOUGH RAMA WAS THE \\ONE DAY, WHILE PARASHURAMA® A BRAHMAN; HE HAD AN INORPI- ANP HIS BROTHERS WERE AWAY,| FOR WEAPONS ANP M/S ARIUNA ENTEREP JAMAPAGNI'S WAS THE AXE. a Fea y || oy ; LCOME, O MIGHTY. KING, YOUR MEN AND TASTE THE YELP OF \ KAMA DHE NU. IF KAMAPHENU CAN FEED SO MANY IN g( SUCH A SHORT TIME,))) |/ A) MUST POSSESS aN SEIZE THE P{ ANIMAL AND] HER YOUNG! ONE . TAKE =\THEM TO MY CAPITAL-DASHA AVATAR PARASHURAMA | | RAVANA WAS FURIOUS» HE AND WITH ONE ||. VISHNU, AS RAMA; | RUSHED TOWARDS RAMA. Twane OF HIS |\COMPLETED THE | © VILE RAKSHASAN BOW «++ ||MISGION FOR WHICH | . HE HAD TAKEN HIS REAP TODAY THE FRUITS OF YOUR BIRTH ON EARTH.amar chitra katha 7 DAWN OF THE KALI YUGA , MANY TYRANTS | UKE phy (AND THe DEMONS IN HIS PAY), JARASANDHA , SHISHUPALA, THE KAURAVAS AND THEIR HORDES , MOLESTED BHOOMIDEVI OFTEN E ROLES OF ARROGANT KINGS - PAE ae [ROLES 2 |)BISTRESSED, SHE STOOD BEFORE BRAHMA IN THE FORM OF A B56 geeta WT FU] Vi seek reruce | 4 fa | <7 IN YOu,.O LORD. J J \y<{ Rio me OF my CT) | BURDEN. Ay Mt GY i | j vi is . : Aaa UN Bellin WHEN BRAHMA IN TURN PRAYED q VIGHNE FOR GiIDANCE — 4 1 KNOW OF BHOOMI DEVI’S DISTRESS. SHESHA® AND | SHALL COME DOWN AS THE SEVENTH AND EIGHTH SONS OF VASUDEVA TO FREE HER OF HER BURDEN. E THE DEVAS, MEANWHILE, SHOULD PRECEDE us Ag 7 VIRTUOUS MEN ANDDASHA AVATAR LATER, WHEN UGRASENA’S SON, KAMS) AFFECTIONATELY TOOK THE RES TO DRIVE [THE COUPLE'S CHARIO’ i | INB RAISED HIS SWORD TO Ne BRING 17 DOWN ON HER P| [f% BELONGED | PROMISE TO ay VASUDEVA . OVER TO YOU EVERY CHILD BORN TO HER. TO THE HOPE THAT DIVINE INTERVENTION WiLL SAVE OUR OFFSPRING WHEN THE TIME COMES. _ famar chitra katha YADAVA , SINCE A YADAVA 1S DESTINED TO BE MY KILLER, | SHALL PERSECUTE . AND DESTRCY THE WHEN THE SEVENTH CHILD WAS ABOUT TO BE BORN, VIGHNUS DIVINE POWER» eee [AFTER ACCOMPLISHING AS ORDERED BY THE LORD; 1 Ze I HAVE TO TRANSFER THE ‘ BER THON CHILD, BALARAMA » TO THE i NOW, | MUST WOMB OF ROHINI, VASUDEVASL ‘ ENTER THE WOMB WIFE AT GOKUL. 4 OF YASHODA , THE WIFE OF NANDA® AND AWAIT THE DESCENT OF THE LORD. THIS WAS TO MISLEAD KAMSA INTO BELIEVING THAT DEVAK! HAD LOST HER SEVENTH CHILD. | |? FEW MONTHS LATER, LORD VISHNU APPEARED BEFORE THE AWESTRUCK VASUDEVA , TAKE ME TO GOKUL AND LEAVE ME IN THE BED OF YASHODA. THEN BRING BACK THE GIRL THAT HAS BEEN BORN TODASHA AVATAR DON AS VASUDEVA RETURNED ey ee [WHEN KAMGA STOMPED IN — GUARDS WOKE UP. a DON’T KILL THIS BABY.IT?S ONLY A GIRL. LET ME KEEP HER, DEAR BROTHER. A BABY’S CRY! THE EIGHTH CHILD OF DEVAK! IS BORN. KAMSA MUST WW REPLY, KAMGA_ MERELY SNATCHED THE INFANT FROM HER HAND..+ AND 10] TO HIS ALARM; THE BABY ROSEINTO __| Pare es en see HE SI TOOD | > Vayy f ‘ROY Be eronuco Doom I WHAT WOULD) lye INFANTS “AT GOKUL WHOSE TRANSFORMED YOU GAIN BY ISATIO! EXPLOITS *™ as AS YOGAMAYA. Orne. ME, | eee nee ‘ FOOLISH ONE® youR, DESTROYER SURVIVES \ ELSEWHERE. POOTANA, TRINAVARTAs AGHASURA, DHENUKA; )y PRALAMBA —ALL <&_ SLAIN BY THOSE = TWO CHILDREN-| KRISHNA AND BALARAMALfemar chitra katha DELIGHTED BY THE INVITATION; THE 8045 CAME TO MATHURA .- AG THEY PASSED Tig HALL WHERE THE BOW WAS PS eee VAL > INVITE |BOTH OF THEM TO MATHURA FOR IT AND KRISHNA NOT ONLY BENT THE BOW BUT PULLED ITS STRING 50 TAUT THAT IT BROKE WITH A RESOUNDING 2AS, WHICH REACHED KANSAS EARS AS. (E_ RELAXED IN HIS PALACE « x Pp THE SNAP OF A BOW. DREAD FILLS MY X& BEING . CHANURA AND THE DAY OF THE FESTIVAL DAWNED. THE TRUMPET GAVE THE SIGNAL FOR THE GAMES 70 BEGIN. THE MIGHTY WRESTLER CHANURA TOOK ON KRISHNA,LESSLY THE BOYS IGHT AND DEFEATED THE CHAMPIONS.» DASHA AVATAR KAMSA WAS FURIOUS] | BEFORE FEAR GRIPPED HIS E THE ORDER COULD HEART. BE CARRIED OUT, KRISHNA DRIVE THE BOYS OUT OF THE CITY. f|PUT THE TRAITOR IASUDEVA TO BHOOMI DEVI _HAS BEEN RELIEVED OF THE | | HEAVIEST PART OF HER BURDEN. FATHER-IN-LAW, THE EVIL, JA’ IWBH) THE YEARS THAT FOLLOWED; KRISHNA ‘ ae THE DEATH @OF KAMSA’S I ' AND KLLED HI6 STALINCH ALLY | SHISHUPALA AND THEIR HORDES:amar chitra katha ee [SOON AFTER THAT, KRISHNA’S (N THAT WAR THE KAURAVAS WERE COUSING , THE VIRTUOUS PANDAVAS, ———_] EXTERMINATED ~ WERE UNLAWFULLY DEPRIVED OF THEIR KINGDOM BY THEIR COUSINS, REMAINS MY OWN Bie EROGANT | KAURAVAS, Be , oe y SnonvAS ee Beek BROKE OUT pom ARE PROSPEROUS AND BETWEEN THEM. oy INVINCIBLE BECAUSE OF TWILL SOON BE ABLE TO) we JM | MY UNCEASING GUIDANCE RID BHOOMI DEVI OF THES 4 alle ; AND SUPPORT. KAURAVAS - : CAUSE THE RROGANT YADAVA YOUTHS TO TEASE THE RISHIS AND INVITE THEIR OWN DESTRUC= JON. THEN BALA= RAMA AND 1 WILL \ BE FREE TO \ WITHDRAW OUR= Ze SELVES FROM THE WORLD. |AT THAT TIME, THE RISHIS—NARADA , VISHWA \VASISHTHA AND OTHERS—WERE , LIVING NEAR DbDASHA AVATAR JHE TERRIFIED YOUTHS SEARCHED SAMBA WHAT SHALL LET US TAKE IT To UGRASENA AND CONFESS OUR CRIME. THEY PUT THEIR QUERY TO HOW DARE THEY SHE |S BEARING AY KSTERS f MACE WHICH WILL DESTROY YOUR RACE , IGNORANT pd HEARD THEIR || DON’T BE | ALARMED. GRIND THE MACE INTO FINE POWDER AND SCATTER THE POWDER g IN THE OCEAN- TOO HARD. TRY AS | MIGHT 1 COULD NOT BUT THE POWDER WAS wasHED || AND THE PiECE THAT COULD NoT BE BACK TO THE SHORE WHERE 17 | | (GROUND WAS SWALLOWED BY A FISH. GREW INTO A GRASS CALLED os Oa 7amar chitra kath j — CURSE » BRAHMA , SHIVA, AND THE Tie FISH WAS CAUGHT BY THE MEANWHILE, SINCE THE YADU RACE WAS\ — HUNTER, JARA. WHEN HE CUT Oe NOD AS DESTROYED BY THE RISHI'S| WHAT’S THIS 2 A PIECE OF IRON! - 1T WILL MAKE A FINE HEAD FOR p CELESTIALS CAME TO TAKE KRISHNA TO VAIKUNTHA.. BUT — ) CANNOT LEAVE BEFORE THE )} YADU RACE I9 DESTROYED, LEST IT OVERWHELM AND, WIPE OUT THE WHOLE WORLD BEFORE IT IS ITSELF ANN IHILATED \ON THE SEVENTH DAY FROM NOW» DPWARAKA WILL GO UNDER THE SEA. THE WORLD WILL BE INVADED BY_THE SPIRIT OF KALI. FIELYADAUAS CONTINUED QUARRELLING. THEIR WEAPONS | pawn ev OUT HANDFULS OF THE DEADLY ERAKA ALONG ESTATE LO! THE GRASS : HAS TURNED INTO A i ae MACE }_ DASHA AVATAR JO LOOK FOR BALARAMA || KRISHNA iD HIM ALREARY SEATED MEDITATION 8Y THE SEASHORE.| HE HAS WITH DRAWN HIMSELF WE FROM THE WORLD. } MUST FOLLOW HIM. IE HUNTER , WHO WAS PASSING ; "HIS FOOT TO BE THE , a 1 MOST GLC | ViSHNU+ THIS ARROW CANNOT FAIL ME. !T’S THE ONE 1 MADE WITH THE PIECE OF IRON THAT WAS STUCK IN THE FISH’S MAW. we IP CELESTIAL Mi MUSIC FILLED THE ne a an Bee He ABODE IN VAIKUNTHAamar chitra katha WITH KRISHNA’S DEPARTURE FROM EARTH, THE AGE OF KAL/ SET IN. HINDUISM LOST MUCH OF ITS PURITY. THE AUTHORITY OF THE VEDAS ea QUESTIONABLE. EMPTY RITUALS REPLACED TRUE DEVOTION TO GOP AND POWER-DRUNK BRAHMAN PRIES EXPLOITER AND OPPRESSED THE OTHER Ci SAKYA KING, SHUDDHODANA OF | \PASSING THROUGH THE LUMBINI GARDENS |i KAPILAVASTU , HAP A STRANGE WAY TO HER PARENTAL HOME. AS DREAM. A WHITE ELEPHANT RESTED BENEATH A SAL TREE, SHE WITH SIX TUSKS PIERCED MAYADEV), THE QUEEN OF THE | |A Fl ic ATER, SHE WAS YOUR “MAJESTY | HE 15 AS LUSTROUS AS THE FULL MOON ABOVE, | esDASHA AVATAR LATER, AT THE PALACE , SAGE ASITA CA TO SEE THE INFANT. [=> IF | CAN HELP ; INGER Dar EITHER BECOME A \ IT; HE SHALL THE PRINCE STEP GREAT EMPEROR | BECOME A KING BEYOND THE CONFINES, OF HIS 1OR WILL RENOUNCE] OF KINGS AND PALACE-LET HIM NEVER KNOW |THE WORLD AND ,NOT A SAGE. OF THE MISERIES OF OLD AGE, DISEASE OR DEATH. PROVIDE. HIM WITH ALL| THE LUXURIES IMAGINABLE. AS SOON AS SIDDHARTHA , THE PRINCE WHO | |IN DUE COURSE, A SON WAS BORN |\WAS IGNORANT OF THE PAIN AND MISERY TO THEM AND SIDDHARTHA HAD OF THIS WORLD, CAME OF AGE, HE WAS ALL THAT A MAN COULD WANT. MARRIED TO YASHODHARA , THE DAUGHTER | NOW SIDDHARTHA — OF A SAKYA NOBLE. | WILL NEVER THINK } = OF RENOUNCING THE WORLD. THEN | SHALL ORDER A SPECIAL CHARIOT FOR you. YOU MAY GO. b, WHEN IT IS READY- FATHER, | MUST | GO OUT OF THE | PALACE AND SEE = MORE OF THE ‘ 1) MEANWHILE, . 1 SHALL SEE THAT. THE HE TAKES IS CLEAR OF ALL DISTURBINGamar chitra katha . AS THEY DROVE FURTHER — HANNA! HALT! WHY DOES THAT ) MAN BEND SO® WHY DOES HE USE A STICK © . IT 1S OLD AGE, J MY PRINCE. EVERY-} ONE HAS TO GROW OLD. a [ EVEN |, cHANNASET THis TIME THEY SAW A St GROANING WITH PAIN: WHAT’S WRONG WITH HIMs / |S DISEASE PECULIAR TO EVEN YOU MAY4 FALL ILL- ri HE |: MAY LORD, WITH A PAINFUL ‘SEASE.DASHA AVATAR THA’S GREED FOR MORE KNOWLEDGE WHAT HAP HITHERTO BEEN CONCEALED | MAROM HIM_GREW.HE MADE ANOTHER TOUR:| A ; | CHANNA! WHY “SUZ NO, MY LORD- ARE THEY IT’S MUCH CARRYING THAT \ WORSE. HE IS 2 MAN 2 1S HE LORD. ALL OLD ® |S HE ILL? / Z THAT IS 4 \ BORN must. LUXURY BEC LL ¢ 3 HING HE WAS UNHAPPY AND é 5 ‘ MY SON CAN FALL | a ILL. YASHODHARA WILL GROW OLD AND ‘UGLY. V WILL ULTIMATELY DIE~ AND HE RODE OUT ONCE AGAIN- STOP, CHANNA! THAT FACE! HOW CALM’! HOW SERENE IT LooKs! wi HO 15 HE © . ra . 1 TOO HE 1S A MONK, fi p MY LORD. HE HAS Vos mY LIFE TO TH DEVOTED HIS LIFE} | surr OF TRUTH: _ ‘ | SHALL RENOUNCE TO THE PURSUIT OF TRUTH. wt 5 S \ aa se NO)amar ehitra katha SO SIDDHARTHA LEFT THE PALACE ANG [i ANG SIDPHARTHA, » THE PRINCE, BECAME AN ASCETIC. AFTER YEARS OF | |BECAME BUDDHA™— THE BITTER STRUGGLES, HE PERCEIVED ENLIGHTENED ONE TRUTH, AS HE SAT MEPITATING Si € THEN BUDDHA CAME BACK TO LIVE AMONGST MEN AND TEACH THE; HE HAD LEARNT. HE HELD HIS FIRST 2MON IN THE DEER PARK AT SARNATH, NEAR VARANASI. A : SP \ / MAN SUFFERS BECAUSE HE 2 D WHAT 1S BORN ON EARTH. HE 15 BORN, DIES; AND 15 BORN AGAIN BECAUSE OF HIS ATTACHMENTS , HIS DESIRES. t/ DESIRE AND ATTACHMENT MUST BE / iS DESTROYED. THEN MAN CEASES TO BE REBORN, CEASES TO SUFFER. DESIRE CAN BE DESTROYED. < a mt) ‘MANY YEARS DID BUDDHA PREACH , AND MANY WERE THOSE WHO JN HIM IN HIS: TEACHINGS - WHAT HE COULD GIVE, ‘BUT A DROP OF WATER IN THE SEA OF HUMANITY THAT TOSSED BY THE MISERIES FORETOLD FOR THE KALI YUGA» SEE AMAR CHITRA KATHA O.22-BUDDHA.DASHA AVATAR GOOD MEN WALKED THE EARTH AFTER BUDDHA BUT WN THE EFFECT THEY HAD AGAINST THE GROWING SUPREMACY Oe BU AND. we ONES ON EARTH. 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