Pregnant King (R/J)

Devdutt Pattanaik Penguin Random House India Non Fiction English Paperback 9780143423331

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Publishing Group	:	Penguin Random House India
Pages	:	360
Release Date	:	19 January 2024
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I am not sure that I am a man said Yuvanashva. I have created life outside me as men do. But I have also created life inside me as women do. What does that make me? Will a body such as mine fetter or free me? Among the many hundreds of characters who inhabit the Mahabharata perhaps the worlds greatest epic and certainly one of the oldest is Yuvanashva a childless king who accidentally drinks a magic potion meant to make his queens pregnant and gives birth to a son. This extraordinary novel is his story. It is also the story of his mother Shilavati who cannot be king because she is a woman of young Somvat who surrenders his genitals to become a wife of Shikhandi a daughter brought up as a son who fathers a child with a borrowed penis of Arjuna the great warrior with many wives who is forced to masquerade as a woman after being castrated by a nymph of Ileshwara a god on full-moon days and a goddess on new-moon nights and of Adi-natha the teacher of teachers worshipped as a hermit by some and as an enchantress by others. Building on Hinduisms rich and complex mythology-but driven by a very contemporary sensibility-Devdutt Pattanaik creates a lush and fecund work of fiction in which the lines are continually blurred between men and women sons and daughters husbands and wives fathers and mothers. Confronted with such fluidity the reader is drawn into Yuvanashvas struggle to be fair to all-those here those there and all those in between. About the Author Devdutt Pattanaik is the author of over 25 books and over 500 articles on the relevance of mythology in modern times. He worked... See more

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