Indian Epics

Hello everyone, Below you will find a collection of notes from  part B  of readings from Ellen C. Babbitt's More Jataka Tales . Part A Notes How the Monkey Saved His Troop Every night monkeys went to a mango tree where the fruit had dropped. A king found out about the fruit and liked the fruit so much he needed to know where the tree stood. When they found the tree the king collected all of the fruit laying on the ground. The monkeys came later that night and saw that all of the fruit on the ground was gone so they picked the fruit from the tree. The monkeys were so loud that it woke up the king and later archers stood at the base of the tree ready to kill the monkeys. The king saw how good the chief monkey took care of his troop and the king said he would take care of the chief monkey for the rest of his life. The Brave Little Bowman A crooked little man used a bow and arrow very well. The little man wanted to get work from the king's army. Along the way he met ...

Hello everyone, Below you will find a collection of notes from  part A  of readings from Ellen C. Babbitt's More Jataka Tales . The Girl Monkey and the String of Pearls A queen put her pearls away in a box and a girl monkey watched. The monkey waited until the servants fell asleep. The monkey hid the pearls in the hole of a tree. The guard woke up and realized that the pearls were missing. The chief suggested that one of the girl monkeys took the pearls. The guards and the chief tricked the girl monkey by hanging more beads. All the monkeys except for the one which stole the pearls came to look at the beads. The Three Fishes Three fish, Very-Thoughtful, Thoughtful and Thoughtless swam away from their safe home. Very-Thoughtful suggested that the fishes turn around because of fisherman, but the others didn't want to turn back. Thoughtful and Thoughtless swam into a fisherman's net and Very-Thoughtful saved them. The Tricky Wolf and the Rats Tricky Wolf wanted to ca...

An updated version of this story can be found here . Once upon a time there lived a bale of turtles in the north end of a very long river. The weather became much colder so the turtles found themselves huddling closer together and digging themselves deeper into to the bed of the river every night. The leader of the bale was Anthony. Anthony was a wise and old turtle and everyone respected him expect for the foolish and young turtle, Timothy. Anthony announced to the bale that he thought it should be time to migrate to the south end of the river due to the cold weather. Anthony explained that the journey would be dangerous, but it would be better than freezing to death. The foolish and young turtle Timothy announced to the bale that he was going to start on the journey by himself because he didn't want the others holding him back and causing more danger. So Timothy left on his journey to the south end of the river by himself. (Image from Pinterest ) A day later the res...

Hello everyone, Below you will find a collection of notes from part B of readings from Babbitt Jataka Tales Part A notes  The Wise and Foolish Merchant The foolish merchant was selfish want wanted to start the path before the wise merchant so he could sell his goods at a price he wanted, have clean and fresh water, etc. The wise merchant want good with that because the foolish merchant would end up doing all of the work for him. The Elephant Girly-Face Girl-Face the elephant heard bad robbers talking about giving no mercy to anyone who got in their way. Girl-Face took this as advice to hurt anyone who came near her. The king realized this was the problem and had good men talk about how bad it was to hurt others so Girly-Face realized that it was better to be nice to others. The King's White Elephant An elephant approached carpenters because he has something stuck in its foot. The carpenters took out the splinter and made sure the elephant want all good. The elephant t...

Hello everyone, Below you will find a collection of notes from part A of readings from Babbitt Jataka Tales. The Monkey and the Crocodile The crocodile wanted to trick the monkey into riding on his back to get to the island of the water with ripe fruit. The crocodile's mom wanted to eat the heart of the monkey. The monkey tricks the crocodile and escapes. How the turtle saves his own life The princes of a king went to a lake that their father had gotten made for them. The princes encountered a turtle who they thought was a demon. The princes told the king and the king ordered his men to catch the turtle. The king's men threw the turtle in the river because the one of the king's men thought that would be a horrible death for the turtle. The turtle survived. The Merchant of Seri A golden bowl belonged to a little girl's grandfather but the family did not know what the bowl was worth. Two merchants stopped by the house and the girl begged for a new bowl from her...

Hundreds of years ago there lived a wise tortoise named Drona. Drona was unlike any other tortoise. He was incredibly intelligent. He was a master of military arts, which might sound strange for a tortoise but animals from all around the globe came to him to learn. One of his apprentices was a tiger named Drupada. Drupada and Drona worked hard together to create a school for species to come and unite and learn together. However, as years passed Drupada became more ambitious. He cared more about the fame of being a creator of the best military arts school in the world and he left Drona. Drupada started his own school, which would eventually compete with Drona's school and leave Drona without students. Years passed and Drona was without anyone. His school became filled with dust and cob webs without students. Drona was incredibly sad but more than anything he became filled with anger. Drupada was now his enemy. One day an old sage approached Drona and let him know about a group...

Hello all, In this post you will find my notes from The Mahabharata: Karmic Revolution an online film from YouTube. These notes are only comprised of the part B playlist . Kunti was given a special mantra from a sage, which would allow her to call upon any god that she wished. Kunti tried it out with the sun god to see if it worked and it did. Kunti was left with a child from the sun god. Kunti knew that the child was destined for greatness. She placed the child in a basket and put it in the river. Kunti's son with the sun god was a secret. No one knew about it not even her husband, the king. One day Pandu was hunting with his bow and accidentally shot and killed a couple. Before the man died he cursed Pandu and said that the second be would be come intimate with a woman something terrible would happen. This caused great pain for Pandu and he decided to leave the kingdom. Kunti mentioned to Pandu her special gift in which she could call upon any god. The god of truth was c...

Hello all, In this post you will find my notes from The Mahabharata: Karmic Revolution an online film from YouTube. These notes are only comprised of the part A playlist . Once I began watching the videos, I soon found out something that I didn't realize or get from reading the PDE version of  Mahabharata . The original story has been changed based on who is telling the stories. Depending on the story teller the story might be different. This reminds me of what we are actually doing in Indian Epics. We take the original Indian epic or the original story that we read and make it our own, focusing on the elements and characters that we connected with the most. I really enjoy the way that the online film retells the Mahabharata , is was really easy to follow and I was able to make more connections between characters. All of the names and characters can get kind of confusing after a while so it is a nice refresher. Something that I now understand that I didn't fully underst...

Browser bookmarks have always been my friend. I have found it extremely useful to create browser bookmarks to access sites that I visit frequently. On my browser I have four bookmarks. If I have more than four I get a little overwhelmed because I do not like seeing all of them on my browser. Currently I have browser bookmarks for Canvas because I use Canvas for all of my classes and need easy access to it. It is much faster to click one thing instead of typing in the web address. I also have browser bookmarks for my PRSSA GoogleDrive. I am a member of exec. for PRSSA (Public Relations Student Society of America) and I frequently need to access documents for PRSSA so it makes sense to have that as a bookmark. I also have a browser bookmark for the site where I log my hours for Lindsey + Asp. And my final browser bookmark is for Netflix because the quicker I can get access to Netflix the better right?