Vasudev
Meets Yamuna by Epified TV (India)
Ill start of by saying how much I enjoy listening to these
stories in video form. I think presenting these stories with a video and a narrator
is such a good idea. For me personally it is very difficult to follow along
with these stories when just reading them. This is because there are so many
words I don’t know and can not pronounce that it takes me a long time to read
the whole story. It is also very difficult to follow all of the new characters
and their names without having a face to put with the name. These are problems that
are solved when a video is used to tell the story. Also Epified did a great job
in this aspect because they also give the viewer something to watch that is not
distracting from the story so it is easy to watch and listen. I think having
one epic being read and the other in video format would be a good idea for this
course, instead of having both of them as novels.
As for the story, this was a very interesting story to listen
to. The father and mother continuously have their children killed by the king,
the child’s uncle. The king keeps killing the babies after birth because the
legend says the 8th baby will be the downfall of the king. The day
came and the 8th child was born, a boy and a god. The father noticed
that after the child was born the door to their cell was open and the guards
were asleep. The father slips out and goes to a village where another baby had
just been born. The father switches the babies and returns with a girl to their
cell.
This is an awful concept portrayed in this story. I can
understand why the father switched the babies but that is not justified. The
father stole someone’s baby to save his own. He was fully aware that the king would
kill this baby girl that he stole. I think that the father of the baby is just
as evil as the king who kills the newborns.
(Krishna: Image from Wikimedia Commons)
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