Hannah's Indian Epics Blog

Gandhari receiving boon from Vayasa. Source: Wikipedia .  Sources/ Stories to Include: To create my storybook I am focusing on the stories of Uloopi, Sita, and Gandhari. They are three interesting stories that include common elements. These common elements will make it easy to keep a seamless theme throughout my storybook. Uloopi is the first story I think I want to include. I have not read her entire story but here is a link to the book: Uloopi's Story . Secondly, I want to include Sita's part in the Ramayana. I also want to include something about her origin story. It was briefly mentioned in the reading guides for the PDE Ramayana and I would like to learn more about it. Here is a link to some information on Sita: Sita's Wikipedia Page . Thirdly, and perhaps the most interesting is Gandhari's story. Gandhari is a very selfless woman who gives up her sight on her wedding day because her husband is blind. She also is the mother of a hundred sons so I believe that...

Image Credit. Dhritarashtra and Gandhari. Source: BlogSpot .      Originally I thought that I wanted my storybook project to be over women in the Ramayana. However, while researching my project I came across the story of Uloopi. Uloopi's story is one that I want to look into more. So I have decided to make my storybook project over women in Indian epics. Here's a  link  to women in Indian epics.       Firstly, I want to do a section over Uloopi. Her story seems complex and action-packed which should make for a good read. Uloopi is a princess and I want that to be a common theme for the stories in my storybook. The key aspect of Uloopi's story that I want to use is that she saves her husband Arjuna and brings him back to life.  Click here  for a link to Uloopi's story. Also here's a link to  Uloopi's Wikipedia page .       Secondly, I want to do a section over Sita. Sita has been a very intriguing ...

Image Credit. Belle Sita by Ye-Zu. Taken August 2016. Source: Flickr .  Women of the Ramayana  is a topic that caught my eye first. As I've mentioned in other blog posts women are not very often the main characters or heroes of stories. I would like to learn more about the women in the Ramayana and potentially write some of their stories in my storybook. Sita is a Hindu goddess I have read about briefly in one of the older storybooks that interested me. I would like to learn more about her story particularly. I think it would also be interesting to learn about the women who were good and bad in the Ramayana. I have no previous knowledge of these stories so this topic would give me a blank slate with lots of opportunity for learning.  Epic Heroes  is the second topic that I might write about. I love superhero stories such as Superman, Thor, and Batman. I think that epic hero stories might just be the Indian epics version of these stories. I think it would b...