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More so now than ever
“You are enchanting – more so now than ever, flushed as you are with anger.” Kacha says this to Devayani while declining her proposal for marriage, for he believes that by bringing him back to life, Sukracharya is now his parent and it is against nature for a brother to wed his own sister. (Mahabharata…
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Of wine and virtue
“Virtue will desert the man who through lack of wisdom drinks wine. He will be an object of scorn to all. This is my message to humanity, which should be regarded as an imperative scriptural injunction.” The Asuras would have killed Sukracharya’s disciple Kacha, burnt his body and mixed his ashes in wine and offered…