A Curse And Legend Story. Poem by Gangadharan nair Pulingat..

A Curse And Legend Story.



Bhagavatha purana the great epic text
Great stories of devotion
Great Sage Veda vyasa's poetry text
All over India revered and read.

The legend of story of the King Parikshit
Righteous and able in administration
In a fit of anger committed an excess
The victim a learned sage in meditation.

Seeing the plight of the beloved father
The learned son a sage and powerful himself
Cursed the king to die in a snake bite
Within seven days the period he fixed.

Sorry to state the king couldn't escape
The destiny he have to suffer as death
By the way of snake bite from Thakshaka
The King of snakes in command of duty.

Seventh day of the curse appeared
The will of destiny couldn't escape
King of snake Thakshaka went to abide
The nature's Command by way of bite and kill.

On the way to the one pillared palace he met
An expert physician on snake bites
Asked to reveal his intentions, he replied
I am going to cure the snake venom in my power.

As a test of the quality of treatment
Thakshaka told he will bite a Banian tree
By the power of venom leaves will fall
And then the term is for you to decide
To make them flourish with new leaves in haste.

Promptly bitten the Banian tree with such might
And seeing the leaves all fallen by the venom
The physician tried his best in his term
And there came the new tender leaves in such speed.

Unable to comprehend the snake asked the physician
The destiny of the king decided by god
You can't protect him against the wishes
Go away with several gifts that I give
Which the story gives a positive picture
And ultimately the destiny triumphant and King died
Not to say by the powerful snake venom.

POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
Destiny couldn't be changed so says the Indian legend stories.......A heartfull love of the son of a sage cursed the king.
COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Savita Tyagi 30 September 2014

Lovely poem. All the memory of the story came back. Accept the physician part. Thanks for writing old story in such a beautiful way.

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