Kumbhkarna, destroying the town Danville
Once upon a time, there was a big monster named Kumbhkarna, who lived in Danville. He was known all over the town as the biggest evil monster and everyone feared him. He goes around the town messing up people's lives by eating their food, messing up their houses and also eating some of the people. Many people were tired of his behavior so they all decided to go to the king's palace for some help.
People: "We are tired of Kumbhkarana and all his evil doings, can you do something about it."
King: "I know his deeds are getting worse day by day, I will come up with a plan to defeat him. Just be patience my people."
People: "We can not wait any more, that evil troll is eating people. We are all going to die soon."
The king was furious and had to come up with a plan to kill the beast. One day he decides to call a meeting with all the nearby kings. They eventually end up confronting a brave man, who decides to take on the challenge. The brave man, named Indra goes and tries to destroy the monster, but before he could Kumbhkarna takes all away all his weapons. He is helpless so the monster ends up killing him. The great being is mad at him for doing such and destroying many other innocent lives so he curses Kumbhkarna, who will sleep for six months and eat for six months. However, when the monster is awake, he causes more trouble then ever. The god is mad and finally sends Vishnu, as a form of Rama to earth. Rama is destined to go to Jungle for fourteen years due to a boon that his father was responsible for. While in Jungle, one day Rama is passing by the town and he hears people talking about this evil monster. He feels like he can help the people so he goes up to them and talks to them about it. Eventually, Rama finds about more about the monster. Where he stays and when he will be up. Rama and his brother both goes to the monster and see him sleeping. They try to wake him up, but they had no luck. Then one of the townsman, hit a rock into Kumbhkarna's eyes and he wakes up.
Kumbhkarana: His eyes are red and smoke is coming out of his ear, "Who dares to wake me up, while I am in my hibernating period."
People: In fear, they all rushed to their home
Rama: "It was me, you big monster. I am here to put an end to your evil behavior."
Kumbhkarana: "HAHAHAH, No one can defeat me. I would like to see what you got.'
Kumbhkarana throws a big rock towards Rama and his brother, which luckily they pass by. Rama was furious too now so they start fighting. Rama knew he was in a big danger as he saw what the monster was capable off. They go through many rounds of throwing things at each other. Gods are seeing that Rama is struggling, so they send a fire weapon for him to use. Rama uses the weapon, which eventually ends up killing Kumbhkarana as the fire weapon passed through his head and body.
The king is pleased with the Rama's deed so he ends up crowning him as a prince for the town of Danville.
Author's note:
This story was actually about Kumbhkarana, who is cursed by Brahma when he defeats lord Indra. Therefore, he is a monster, who sleeps for six months and eats for a day. I wanted to make the story into a children's version so I added extra details. Rama kills him in the actual story and I wanted to keep it same because I like the way he defeated him so I used the same story line.
Bibliography: PDE ramayana, Kumbhakarna Link
Urvi,
ReplyDeleteI had no idea that Kumbhkarana was cursed by Brahma. I knew he was extremely hard to wake up, but I didn't know why. Thank you for tying those that together for me.
I will admit, I was as little confused by these two sentences at first:
"The brave man, named Indra goes and tries to destroy the monster, but before he could Kumbhkarna takes all away all his weapons. He is helpless so the monster ends up killing him. The great being is mad at him for doing such and destroying many other innocent lives so he curses Kumbhkarna, who will sleep for six months and eat for six months.", but the rest of the text and the author's note helped me piece it together. Just to make sure I understand, the god/great being that is being referred to throughout the story is Brahma and not Indra, correct?
I like the dialogue that you added. It is very simple, which is perfect since you were going for more of a children's version of the story.
Overall, it was a nice story to read and I like that you chose to focus on Kumbhakarna as he didn't have a lot of backstory in the version I read.
Hi Urvi,
ReplyDeleteDefinitely the wow moment for me reading your story was the detail that you added to make it interesting. I thoroughly enjoyed reading your story, the way you described the anger with smoke was classic and very fitting for a giant monster. I wonder what you would have happened if the gods did not intervene and give Rama a fire weapon, would he have struggled but ultimately won? Or would the story take a dark turn and he would die? Also, what if Rama was completely disinterested in the towns people due to them not helping him in his search for Sita, and he allows the beast to destroy them. This variation is highly unlikely though because Rama is of high character and he sought the challenge. So I guess I answered my own question! Regardless, your story was really great Urvi and I look forward to some more!
Hey Urvi!
ReplyDeleteI loved reading this! It was such a good idea to make it into a children’s story. I liked the little spins you put on the story. It was very entertaining to read. The dialogue was great and I can see kid’s enjoying it. Maybe they would even want a Rama action figure! How cool would that be! But great job! I can’t wait to read more!