Chapter 7

Summary and Conclusion

7.1 SUMMARY
Amish Tripathi IIM Kolkata graduate, a Banker turned happy author. He wrote
Shiva Trilogy the Success of his first book, was too much that it encouraged him
to give up his fourteen years of career in financial services to writing. He is an
ardent admirer of Lord Shiva. The Shiva Trilogy falls under the gallery of
mythology, what treatment is somewhat different. It is a type of fantasy. In writing
this fantasy, he is close to the books written by Paulo Coelho and Dan Brown.
After reading the Shiva Trilogy we come to the conclusion that, he is not only
religious by nature but he has a lot of knowledge about History, mythology and
philosophy as well. The Immortals of Meluha reflects Amish's personal
admiration for the Lord Shiva by the way he has characterized the Lord. Shiva,
the tribal Warrior is humanized. The story contains how a human of flesh, blood
and bones becomes Godlike through his work. However, the main thing is that,
Amish has tries to keep Shiva as human as possible, Shiva argues about the
mistakes of the past life, argues about the caste system. He like human beings
held dialogues with Pundit and Gopals. And till the end he is not ready to be
called the Chosen Neelkanth, the Destroyer of Evil. The first book in a trilogy on
Shiva is about the simple man who, recast him as the God of Gods. The time
period of the novel is 1900 BC, which people called the Indus valley civilization
period. In the novel the inhabitants of that period call the land of Meluha which is
created many centuries earlier by Lord Ram. The Empire was very peaceful
Empire, and once ruled by the Suryavanshi. It was situated on the river
Saraswati, that is slowly and slowly drying to extinction. This Empire is also
facing devastating terrorist attacks from the land of Chandravanshi.
Chandravanshi are making Alliance with the Nagas to fight against Suryavanshi.
Suryavanshi is are in great trouble so they went to Shiva and ask him for his
help. Shiva agrees he becomes Neelkanth, he fell in love with Sati and in this
way the first book starts. The question is if fever will help Suryavanshi is to get

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out of the Evil. The second book in the series the secrets of the Nagas is the
continuous journey of Shiva. He is trying to find what the Evil is? He comes to
know about the evil that is not Naga, but the somras. To destroy the evil he is on
continuous journey from one Pradesh to the other and come to the third novel
which is full of scientific and philosophical concept. Third novel is the longest of
the three containing daily five hundred and above pages. To fight the Kingdoms
were divided into two alliances. In the end through treachery instead of killing
Shiva, Sati was murdered and we can say that it was a very surprising end. In
the end, into the story the story is about time after thirty years which comes to the
same point from which the story was started and Shiva was again in his place
called Kailash Mountain.
Many perceive India as a country of intolerance and conservative religious
groups. They even claim that India is a country that tends to suppress any voice,
that does not harmonize with theirs. However, it is not true, Indians are intolerant
and conservative and divided into many religious groups but then never tries to
suppress anyone on the name of religion. India has rich history and culture. The
great Epic Ramayana and Mahabharata full of cultural beliefs and Society..
People follow this culture and the style of life which are given in these Epics,
these are the base of our Indian society.. These are in the blood and life of the
Indians. Many writers has re-written these Hindu mythology, in the modern way.
Amish Tripathi is also among one of such writers, who have taken an attempt to
read tell Hindu mythology. He has a unique approach, of writing. He attempted to
do what would have been considered a taboo, sometime before- retelling Hindu
God. Indian mythology is rich in stories and archetypal characters. All across the
world the Indian mythology is appreciated. The idea of rewriting a God has
usually always been accepted by the reader, the writer, and the publisher. The
concept of interpretation of Indian Mythology is not entirely new. Shruti and
Smriti, that are the pillars of Indian mythological literature. The concept is passed
on to next generation and in this way mythological writings are always alive.
Shruti, refers to the divine literature which is believed to have no human
intervention is making. On the other hand, Smriti are the stories written in words

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by the sages about what they have remembered but written with their own
subjective interpretations. Although Shruti enjoy the greatest place than Smriti,
when it comes to authority in the concept of remembered texts passed on to
generation by stages that have been there in Indian Mythology. We find that
there are several approaches to read mythology. For example, television as a
media, there are many mythological serial on different channels of television like
Mahabharat Ramayana Shri Ganesh Krishna and so many. No doubt, they are
extremely popular with the Indian masses. Directors and producers want to
spread the Indian mythology and culture to the maximum of the Indian masses
through televised media In addition, they are in this field successful because the
serials are watched was by a large population of our country. The trend is to
humanize respectfully the God thus bringing them closer to people.
The same can we see in Amish Tripathi Shiva Trilogy. We see that Ashok
banker, who has written eight books in a series to rewrite the story of Ramayana,
started the trend. Another important name that is more popular today on
television and books is Devdatta Patnaik, who also works as a leadership
consultant and he focuses on deriving management insights from mythology to
reveal a very Indian approach to modern business. Not only this, he tries to solve
the queries of Indian Culture by simple method. So we can say that Amish
Tripathi is also following the same line Shiva Trilogy there was no doubt that it
was accepted by the masses and not only this the series turn out to be a great
success. It became the first book series to have music albums dedicated to it.
The Immortal of Meluha holds a record of the fastest and the best seller book in
India.
CONCLUSION
After going through the detailed study of Amish Tripathi’s The Shiva Trilogy we
come close to the conclusion that it is not very easy to draw a line between myth
and legends folklore and facts of a remote past. Myths are the re-telling of the
past, legends are the stories folklore are also the story so they all differ from
each other, although they are resembling with each other too much. However,
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anthropology, Sociology, psychologist novelists to write on them. Too much of
Western literature on Indian literature or any other literature in different
languages in the world has been written based on the myths of their own
countries. In English literature we have seen that poets like Milton, Eliot, have
written a lot on the myth Milton's Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained are
religious epics based on the Bible. Re-telling stories from myths and history is
nothing new. On the other hand, we can say that it is not a new phenomenon in
Indian literature. Folk Literatures are written on myths like: Ramayanas,
Shivpuraranas, Bharatas. All written in different languages are written in different
Indian languages. Kamban has written Ramayana in Tamil, Ramayana is written
in Sanskrit, Narendra Kohli has written a series on Mahabharata named
Mahasamar which contains eight volumes, he has even written novels based on
stories of Ramayana like Diksha, Avasar, and Yudh, Magadha Vadha, in Bengali
Parva Ramayana Darshanam, are the best examples. We find that mythology is
unending resources for the writers. Michael Madhusudan Dutta re tells
Ramayana from the perspective of the feminine and the masculine. Kuvempu
has written Ramayana from the Shudras perspective. Mahasamar is written by
Narendra Kohli with his own perspective, he has made some characters like
Kaikayi very great, these are his own views.
Amish Tripathi has used the modern perspective based on historical,
philosophical, cultural as well as subjective and imaginative views. The Shiva
Trilogy covered so many concepts, the list is an ending. It is full of mythology,
philosophy, history, religious concept of God, good and bad, masculine and
feminine and the concept of Om. In the area of modernity, he has depicted many
of the characters like Shiva, Sati and Ganesh in modern ways, there are so many
scientific phenomenon, production of Dominos pollution of the river Saraswati,
architecture. He has tried to write myths in the modern concept.
The first book in the series, The Immortals of Meluha begins with the Shiva as a
common man. In addition, slowly with the story Shiva leaves his place to discover
the heaven and becomes the destroyer of the Evil himself. He is a very
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behave simply to his devotees, he treats his wife with respect, she loves crazy
dance, he is a brilliant musician, he like common people smoke marijuana she
drink Bhang he is a good Warrior. Amish has described a week and said yes
change the Human into the god in the novel. We can say that a very cool picture
of Lord Shiva is presented in the novel.
The Shiva Trilogy is full of SCIENCE.
Number of scientist in the name of receives the knowledge of somras; Daivi
Astra, radio waves, and many other concepts are scientifically described in the
Shiva Trilogy. The process of somras the knowledge of the Somras is
scientifically explained in the novel that modern scientists may wonder. It is
described in the novels that Lord Brahma did a lot of research and then he
invented the Somras. When it is much consumed, it reacts with oxygen absorbs
them and then expels them from the body as urines and sweats. Because of the
Somras, no oxidants are left in the body. Not only this it is also experimented,
that so much should not affect in a negative way in the body so many things are
taught from their young age, as to drink as much as water they can. Meluhans
are taught to be hygienic with themselves, they are asked to drink water because
water is the cleanest absorber of the oxidants that this Somras generates and
water excretes them as toxins from outside the body. This is the reason why
Meluhan bathe at least twice a day. From the hygienic, point of view these
building so built that they are so hygienic in nature. The building for toilets is in
specific rooms. All over Meluha, there are underground drains, so that the
wastewater of the city can be safely carried away out of the city.
The process of manufacturing is not very easy there are many difficulties in the
process making. Many ingredients are required, which are not easily available.
For example the Sanjeevani trees, which is not too much in plantation. During the
manufacturing process lot of heat is also generated a lot of water is also used
during the process to me to keep the mixtures table. The crest branches of
Sanjeevani trees have to be turned with water of the Saraswati river before the
process begins for this water from Saraswati river is only needed not from any
other source. So innovate is a very complex method and requires too much of

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patience that should be equal ratio of each and everything. The biggest problem
is of the disposable is of the disposal of the waste which occurs during the
manufacturing process of Somras. The waste disposed in river in Bollywood A
River. Amish Tripathi has compared the pollution of Saraswati river to that of the
pollution of modern Ganga River.
The changing of the BLUE COLOR NECK OF Shiva
Conversion of Shiva in to Neelkanth is a concept that is very beautiful written by
Amish Tripathi. Shiva band rings somras net turns into blue. In mythology, it is
also that during Samantha Samudra Manthan when along with chapter came.
And Shiva drank drunk that poison slowly and it converted his neck into blue thus
making him Neelkanth or we can say that in mythology she was turning of blue
neck, where's the thing on which she was name was known as Neelkanth. Amish
has induced philosophy according to him the well described slow poison
recommends to Kama Lobha,Moha and Ahankara which are attachments, anger
Desire and ego. The root cause of anger is non-fulfillment of Desire. According to
philosophy and can be of 2 types: expressive and suppressive. When anger is
expressing it leads to aggressive behavior. When too high it is can even rupture
of heart blockage. Air pressure on the blood vessels leads to brain hemorrhage.
When the anger is of suppressed form it releases chemicals in the body leading
to illness, which in turn leads to acidity asthma diarrhea or blockage in body in
the later age. Anger can be easily managed also if a person takes right and
convenient action or she tries to neutralize is anger with opposite thoughts then
angle easily cools down and take away man to peace. Does the author has tried
to mix it with science also.
The concept of NAGAS
The concept of NAGAS is related to use of somras. It is believed that polluted
oxidants from somras, which are given to the Meluhans, had led to the
deformities in the Meluhans. Nagas are given too much Somras, which is the
main cause of the deformities. Kali and Ganesh are shown as belonging to Naga
community because of the abnormal features. The mythical story of Ganesh is
different from the story given by Amish in the Shiva Trilogy. Here Ganesh is

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shown as his son of Sati from first husband Chandandhwaj. When Ganesh was
born she had abnormal features he was thrown into the river, and it was told to
such that her child is a stillborn. Sati gets the news of the death of her husband
at the same time. So she was declared as wicked women. Later when she leaves
in search of Nagas he comes to know that the Naga Sadhu formed due to the
polluted water cause why the production of somras. Ganesh Kali Sati’s elder
sister is also among them. Later in the novel it was also known that excessive
and regular use of Somras lead to study in some elements, she also comes to
know that when others are good people. The Nagas who were supposed to be
evil in the novels slowly turns to be good and Somras was declared as an evil. In
addition, the war against Production of Somras was led by Shiva and his people.
Kali, the sister of Sati ugly lady, Ganesh with extra hands, Long, nose, but both
have tremendous strength and skills. These people were not even allowed to live
in Sapta Sindhu. Shiva when comes to know about that Ganesh was Naga he
was surprised, why Sati has given shelter to Kali and Ganesh. Later on it was all
revealed that Kali, Sati’s sister and Ganesh was Sati’s son. Shiva also accepted
them and played the most important role in the novel helping Shiva in all the way.
Amish treat concept of OM, differently in the novel. Shiva's trilogy he has related
the OM with that of the Nagas. OM in the Hindu mythology and Hindu religion
holds a very respectful place. It is considered as the sound of nature, the hymn of
the universe. It is believed by Hindus that continuously chanting Om helps us in
meeting God. It is one of the spiritualistic sound in the Hindu religion. But OM is
represented it in a different way. In the Shiva Trilogy, it is believed that the
concept of OM was created by Lord Bharat.He was a great ruler who had
conquered practically all of India thousands of years ago. He was Chandravansi,
but people respect him too much. There was a continuous quarrel between
Suryavanshi and Chandravansi .To stop this quarrel it is believed that Lord
Bharatas who himself was Chandravansi married a Suryavanshi girl. OM, the
symbol in the novel is red and Orange colour. The top half in white represents
the Chandravansi, the bottom half in red, which represents the Suryavanshi. In
addition, the mixture of both is represented in orange. The crescent moon to the

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right of the symbol what Chandravanshi is symbol, and the sun above was
Suryavanshi is symbol. By making the symbol of Om representing both the races
Lord Bharat wanted to make Unity between Chandravansi and Suryavanshi.
Unfortunately, after his death, the war between both the races again began. The
bracelet that Naga was wearing is the symbol of Om but it was in black colour.
Which represent the black community of Nagas? Nagas are black and ugly
because of their sins of previous birth. This is way the Vikarma and Naga show
the philosophy that sins of previous birth are punished in present birth.
The concept of VIKARMA and MAIKA system is discussed in detail in the Shiva
Trilogy. Here we can find that Amish is subjective also because sometimes the
author strongly writes the views on which he himself believes. Shiva finds this
practice totally unfair in the nearly perfect society. Repeatedly put a question
mark in front of the statement why people are punished due to the calm of
previous birth. Shiva is behaving like a common person, so he's trying to change
some of the practices in which are prevalent in the society. One of them is the
practice of wicked. We change the belief of the Meluhans and married Sati. Shiva
believes that the system of Vikrama is not going to help the society in any way
instead; it would only lead to the progressive increase in anger. Not only he
marries Sati but he also Android some of the weekends into his Army. And these
people who were given admission into is army help Shiva in Lord in finding the
evil and destroying it. The Pandit at Mohan job Daro says that my car system
was designed to meet the success of the society. This system no child knows the
profession of his birth parents. He is kept away from the society and later, he
chose his career according to his merit.
The Other thing. Which is discussed in the novel is about RUDRA and SHIVA
according to the novel Rudra is Lord Shiva's ancestors. She as Mother, with love
calls him by the name of Rudra. Rudra means the one who roars. Amish has
given a different story about Lord Rudra in the novel Shiva tells a story which
only a few Vayuputras’ know. He says that a legend holds that Lord Rudra was
actually stillborn. Mitra tells that when Rudra was born the midwife and Rudra’s
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tried something which was very unorthodox. She tried to breastfeed the stillborn
child. In addition, to the surprise the baby actually started breathing and started
feeding. When is started breathing he started roaring loudly that is why he was
named Rudra. Also says that the midwife walked away, and was never seen
again. Lord Rudra smother was a strong believer in the mother goddess Shakti
and she was fully convinced that the midwife was no other than the Goddess
Shakti. The midwife is sent by the Goddess to save her son. Shiva’s mother
believes that her son was born without life whom goddess Shakti has given life,
therefore she felt that the Goddess has converted to Shiva. So she started calling
her son Shiva in the owner of the mother goddess. This is this is she was
interpretation by Amish Tripathi. A great scholar Dr. Shankarrao Baladeekshit
Joshi, has given a different interpretation about Shiva. According to him, Rudra is
Aryan word for Shiva, the Dravidian word. However, the meaning of both the
words is red, shining, auspicious and golden.
The concept of SURA and ASURA is differently interpreted by Amish Tripathi.
In the Shiva Trilogy, when the Sura and Asura concepts symbolize the Parihans
and the Meluhans. There is a detailed description on the concept of Sura and
Asura between Gopal and Shiva in the third novel The Oath of the Vayuputras.
Gopal explains to Shiva in a very simple way that in old Parihan language there
was no place for the production of the phonic sound "s". The sound of “s”
became either "sh" or "h". The result was that they pronounced it as 'Ahura' and
they called a demon as "daevas'. This is totally opposite of the Indian pantheon
we call Gods as Devas and demons as Asuras. Therefore, they call their Gods
as Asura and their demon as they Devas. Lord Rudra himself brought some of
them to his territory. The Vayuputras brought others who were hiding to India.
Some of Asuras went very far away, and the remaining became the members of
the Vayuputras tribe and was allowed to live in Pariha as refugees.
Another important thing on which Amish has written is about fire. FIRE, as
symbol. Shiva was when in Mesopotamia, one evening he saw in the bushes the
combination of white sand and brownish rock forming symbol which he called as
FRAVASHI, Holy flame a feminine spirit. He immediately comes to Gopal and

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tells him that he has seen the holy flame, the fire, the Fravashi. Shiva explains to
Gopal, that it is a symbol of faith of Lord Rudra by people. The Fravashi
represents the Spirits, the angels. In the Hindu scriptures, they are described in
the tens of thousands. It is believed that they have sent these souls into this
world and support them in the eternal battle between good and evil. It is also
believe that they have assisted God in creating the universe. It is a Parihan
symbol. This is all about the belief of Parihans. In India the first hymn of the first
chapter of the Rigveda is dedicated to the fire God Agni. In Meluha, they have a
symbol of fire and they call it AGNI, the God of Fire. The symbol of Fravashi and
Agni are same. Fire is supposed to be the beginning of human civilization, the
beginning of our life. It is the source of energy. It is a way of looking at stars to
see them as great balls of Fire. Not only here, but also when Shiva was to leave
for Pariha he saw a dreams of Fire, which was swallowing Sati. In addition, in the
end Sati was killed by Swuth, who is fire the god of Egyptian
STRONG FEMALE CHARACTER dominates the story throughout the novel.
These women characters are Warriors with the strength of man. Sati is
introduced in the first part of the Shiva Trilogy, when she rode in on a chariot of
the horses into the courtyard. She was confidently controlling the horses and
when she dismounted, the Chariot there was confidence in her. She walked in a
dignified manner, with Valor, and with courage. For the first time when she talked
to Shiva, there was a confidence in her talks. When she was attacked by
cucumber seller and attacked by Shiva, She quickly pulled out a sword that she
had kept in her shawl. So in a way Amish has portrayed Sati is no less than
Shiva in Valor. Her last fight of life with Swuth. .... Sati hit him so hard that he
whirled in the air; Sati was up on one knee. Her body was debilitated and she
was breathing rapidly forcing, some sense into her body. She with very strength
tried to stand on her legs but it was all failure. In addition, she was breathing
again rapidly. ..... He was dump struck when he saw Sati was completely soaked
in her own blood. There were numerous wounds all over her body. she was
trembling in pain and she knew that death is standing before her. Throughout the
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female character in the novel is Ayurvati, the doctor of Meluha. Shiva first meet
Ayurvati at Meluha, and she was very intelligent at treating with medicines. She
is a perfect doctor. She has knowledge of each medicine. Whenever there is
injury or someone wounded she treated well. Nandi Ganesh and Sati are treated
by Ayurvati, when were serious. She is very strong character of the novel. The
next important women in strength Kankhala, is Prime Minister of Meluha she
looks to the administration revenue and protocol matters. Both Sati and Kankhala
in the novel were given a chance of choice and they have chosen the path of
truth, which let them to the death in fighting for the great cause. Another
important female character is Anandamayi, who also takes a strong decision of
staying with her husband Parvateshwar, in high risk of life. She just stayed with
Parvateshwar instead of favoring her brother. Tara is a very strong scientist who
helps in the production of Somras and she helps, when they produced Daivi astra
like Pashupatiastra and Brahmastra. By making her female characters is strong
Amish followed tradition of Elizabethan writings. In India, Vedic age and Meluhan
period were the days when women was as strong as men to learn skills and
work.
IDEOLOGY OF GOOD AND BAD:
Everything needs balance. Deep thoughts with concentration have given about
good and bad in the book is to be relevant in present society. In a society, bereft
of humanity, human values there is need of understanding society and human
values. In Kashi Vishwanath Temple Shiva heard the voice from Magadha, that
there is a good in every single one of us. Everything needs balance the
masculine is the feminine the energy required The Mass. This valuable words
added by Vasudev may be examined under Niels Bohr's principle of
complementarities. The principle is that every entity in nature processes of
contradictory characters subject as corpuscular property and wave property. The
contradictory characters are not exclusive of each other but are complementary.
For an integral comprehension of the entity as a whole, it is necessary to know
what the contradictory. Characters we have discussed in detail about the good
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there is good in every single of us as well. The true battle is between good and
evil. In addition, this battle is fought within our body or within our soul. The Evil
the body connects is said to the evil and the good in the body connect itself to the
good. But it is believed that I will attaches itself very deeply us. The Shiva Trilogy
is a story of War not against any person but it is against evil possible in anybody.
In the second book of Trilogy, Shiva one days know that there was a practice of
leaving the children born with deformities in the river in Meluha. Shiva says that
now there is doubt in his mind that Chandanhwaj did not die naturally but....... On
hearing, this Nandi comes in tension and says that it cannot be true because that
is a crime. He says that Suryavanshi are not such people because they cannot
go to such a low level. Shiva says that nobody is good or bad there is a strong or
weak. Strong people stick to their morals and weak people many times do not
realize these morals and sink to lower Depth. There are desires and these
Desires create attachment to the world. In addition, when a person does not get
what he wants it leads to suffering, which gives rise to anger, anger is
misbalance and is the result of destruction. Amish is also talking about MAYA.
He says that to avoid distraction and suffering one should control our Desire and
give up Maya the illusion of this world. In Rig Veda, it is written that in the
beginning of time there was nothing except darkness and primordial flood. In
addition, from this darkness Desire was born. This Shiva shows by describing the
concept of good and evil. Shiva has covered important topics as desires and
Maya.
Next thing Which Amish has discussed very beautifully in the novel is the
concept of ARDHA NARISHWAR philosophy. , all the philosophical concepts
that is discussed by Amish in the Shiva Trilogy is either through the words of
Shiva, Gopal or Pandit. In the second book of the series, Pandit tries to tell Shiva
that humans are nothing individually. All the power of man flows from them self.
It is due to the people live together. He says that there are two ways to get rid of
it. The masculine and the feminine way of life. The masculine way of life is
there is a life, which is, abides by law. Laws that are made by great leader
perhaps a Vishnu like Lord Ram. Or these are the laws that come down from a

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religious tradition. When the laws are made, they become the decision by law
and people follow themselves. The masculine way is very clear in the sense that
larger unchangeable and they must be followed rigidly, there is no room for
ambiguity. The story is a perfect example of such a way of life. The people of
Meluha live by the sword of truth beauty and honor. Therefore, they are
successful in this system
The FEMININE way of life is life by possibilities there is no absolute. There is
nothing like black or white. People do not follow the laws but daily life is based on
probability. For example, they will follow up king who they think has the highest
probability of their loyalties do as well. If there are laws in such a society, they
are flexible, means they can be interpreted differently at different points of time.
Example of feminine civilizations in the novel is Swadeep. The people of
Swadeep are comfortable with contradictions. Therefore, in their way there
society is also a system of success. However, both types of civilizations must
exist because they balance each other. MASCULINE Civilization at its peak is
honorable, reliable and successful in an age suitable for its particular set of law.
So when there is order in the society, it easily moves to right direction. The good
example of this is the Suryavanshi Empire. When masculine Civilization decline
because of Chaos and turmoil everywhere it becomes rigid, they attack those
who are different from them, and try to convert them to their own truth. In this,
way contradictions between thoughts arises and this lead to violence and chaos.
This specially happens when an age changes. Change is difficult for the
masculine. They stick more rigidly, to their laws even though they may not be
suitable for the new age. In addition, masculine civilizations are stronger than
and first order is welcomed, but when they become weak, the things are not
welcomed. The Asuras in the novel are the example who are followers of the
masculine way but had face similar problems, when their problem started
declining. The feminine way of life incorporates all differences. The people of
different faith and belief live together in peace. Nobody tries to and force his own
theory of the truth due to diversity and freedom the people are creative and have
vigor. In addition, this is very beneficial to the society. The day was who were

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followers of the family and whey protein all this when they defeated the Asuras.
However, when there is too much freedom in the society, the famine civilizations
overreach into decadence and corruption. .And when people get bored of this
type of Civilization they want some change. For this change, they will next time
invite the other way of life. The feminine Deva way was in decline during Lord
Ram's time. The country was corrupt and immoral, people cried for order and
civility. Lord Ram does not say that the masculine way of life but very
intelligently, to prevent unnecessary rebellions, he created a new order a new
way of life the Suryavanshi way. Long discussion between Shiva and Pandit
definitely the modern reader must be convinced about the philosophy of ARDHA
NARISHWAR.
The very important point, which we can conclude from the Shiva Trilogy, is that
he has discussed about the PLAN OF JOINING THE RIVERS. The effort to join
the rivers is not a new plan. In the second book, there is a talk between Shiva
and Bhagirath where Bhagirath explains Shiva how Prayag becomes a very
important place. He tells Shiva that once Magadha was a great Kingdom. It was
a time that that all the kingdoms of Swadeep and its king respected and honored
the Magadha. Slowly these kingdoms lost their Glory because of their upcoming
Kings. So Magadha which at one time had a great Glory now has lost its
importance, still people try to live to its past Glory. This plan came century back
around 1900 B.C when the Yamuna changed its course from Meluha and started
flowing into Swadeep, it met the Ganga at Prayag this is said by Bhagirath, and
he said that in coming years this will make a very important place. Shiva asks
that as Magadha is junction of many cities, so it'll also become important place as
the junction of river trade. Any Kingdom that wants to do new trade join trade with
Magadha should pay charges at Prayag; it will help in the prosperity of prayag.
So many things are explored yet a lot still remains to be explored.

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 7.2 RECOMMENDATIONS

1. Mythical Aspects can be studied parallel to writers of the same genre.

2. Use of verses in Sanskrit will make it more interesting.

3. Wastage and pollution of water should be stopped.

4. Amish has suggested a new type of caste system based on Maika system.

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7.3 FUTURE SCOPE

1. A lot can be done on the study of the environment based on the Shiva Trilogy.

2. The Shiva Trilogy covers not only Hindu religion but there Shaivism and
Zoroastrian also. Work on the topics relating to these two religion can be done in
detail.

3.. A lot is written by the author on social aspects as societies, food habits, living
spaces, dresses, which are not covered in the present research such topics can
be studied further.

4. The trilogy is full of Historical events, specially the last war between Swuth and
Sati. This can be studied further, which shows the fighting style of people
belonging to two different regions.

5. Further work on philosophical aspects can be done.

6. Comparative study with other books will make the topic interesting.

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7.4 LIMITATIONS

1. In the Shiva Trilogy Amish Tripathi has written a lot on environment. Shiva is
travelling from one kingdom to other through forests and rivers. Still, the
researcher is unable to work in detail on the topic of environment.
2. There are many religions discussed in the novel. However, the researcher has
described mainly only one of them in detail is Hindu Religion.
3. Many topics are put together in the chapter five.
4. The researcher has done much on the topic relating to social aspects but there
are many aspects to be discussed, like superstition.
5. There are many topics related to history in novel but researcher has taken
selected topics.
6. In chapter third, on philosophy the researcher has discussed in detail on the
Karma yoga .By writing much on Karma yoga, the researcher has not done much
work on other topics like concept of Good and Evil, Maya etc.

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