Let's Learn A to Z differently -Part 5

Hindu Mythology is full of life lessons and the characters in the past played a pre-defined roles for leaving a history behind them . As an effort to lime light few of the characters from the history in a sequence of A to Z. 

Here are the links 

Part - 1 A to G 

Part - 2 H to K

Part - 3 L to O

Part - 4  P to S

 : Tarkasur was a demon who did tapasya for number of  hundred years. Finally Lord Brahama was impressed by his rigorous tapasya and asked him to wish a boon.  Then he wished that he should be more stronger than your creation. and second boon was that he wanted to be killed only by Lord Shiva's son. Later on Kartikey, Son of Lord Shiva, killed him.

 

Uddhav was  the friend and cousin brother of Lord Krishna. He was also his advisor. After Krishna, Uddhav spread the knowledge he got from Krishna on Earth till his death. 

 : Vidur was the central character of Mahabharata. He was the son of  Ved Viyas (Niyogi). Due to his intelligence, he got the post of Prime Minister of Kuru Kingdom.   

This blog post is part of the blog challenge ‘Blogaberry Dazzle’ hosted by Cindy D’Silva and Noor Anand Chawla in collaboration with RRE Studios and ShowCase Events.

Let's Learn A to Z differently -Part 4

A chronological order of names of Hindu mythology. In part one, you can read the names from the characters A to G and in the second part, from the characters H to K and part third are the names of characters from L to O . The motive of this series to present the A to Z in a different way. 

Parshuram: was the incarnation of Lord Vishnu. He was also know as Braham- Shatriya because he has both the qualities of Brahmin and Shatriya. He was well know for his anger and the ill effects of his anger. Axe was the main weapon as he got it from Lord Shiva. 

Panchali : was a character of the Mahabharata. She was the queen of  Pandavas and her real name is Draupadi. Arjun was entered in the swayambar of Draupadi where in Kind Drupad put a condition for the Draupadi's marriage. The princes of the kingdoms have to hit the fish eye by looking at the reflection of fish in the  water.  

There is no name starting from Q in Hindu Mythology. 

Ravan: The ten headed king of demons was the one of the main character in Ramayana. He trickily abducted Sita ji and took her to his Lanka and did not want to send back her. Due to this reason, Lord Rama attacked on him and eventually killed him by hurting him on his naval. 

Rama : Lord Rama was the seventh incarnation of Lord Vishnu. He was the main character of the Ramayana. His real name was Ramchandra. He had happy accepted 14 years of exile which was wished his mother Kekayi. 

Shurpankha: She is one of the most unliked characters from Ramayana. She was the sister of King Ravana. She was attracted with the looks of Lord Ram and wanted him as her husband but when Sitaji objected, she attacked her due to this Laxaman cut her nose. 

Shakuni : Shakuni was the brother of Gandhari (wife of Blind king Dhritarashtra). He was the most negative character of Mahabharata or in other words the master mind of the great war of Kurukshetra i.e. Mahabharata. 

In the next post, I will come up with new characters of Hindu Mythology. 

This blog post is part of the blog challenge ‘Blogaberry Dazzle’ hosted by Cindy D’Silva and Noor Anand Chawla in collaboration with RRE Studios and ShowCase Events.