Sub. Story writing competition
Dear Children, Here is Happymantata greeting you for Merry
Xmas and Happy New Year 2016.
He desires to stimulate the skill of Story Telling in YOU,
and thinks of holding a Story Writing Competition, during coming holidays .The
theme of the story is given below. You may give your own title for the story
and illustrate with pictures if you wish. As far as I know, there is no story
relating to this in any Scriptures/Puranas. So you can use your imagination and
even give a modern-day solution!
You may take help of any body, friends, elders. The story
could be in less than1000 words. Send it to me by e-mail to reach before Jan.31st 2016. A panel of 3
will scrutinize and evaluate. Give your name ,Age, Class of study, City, You
may send more than one entry, Your friend could also participate. Those selected as best three could be put on Happymantata Blogspot with their name
and age.They may also be mailed to those on my mailing list
Any suggestion of
yours is welcome
Background: You are familiar with the story of birth of
Ganesha,It is briefly as below.
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Shiva and Parvati are Gods residing on Himalayas.They have not yet had any children. One day Parvati wants to go for bath and wants privacy. She takes out the turmeric powder she has applied to her body and out of that, prepare a doll and breaths life to it. This is Parvati’s cute son.She commands to him to guard the entrance and see that nobody should be allowed in till she comes out of the bath.After a while, Shiva walks in and tries to enter. The boy stops Shiva and does not allow Shiva to go into his own house! Shiva, in a fit of anger at this impudence, severs the boy’s head with his trident (thrishoola).The boy’s head flies off and is lost in the forest.
Now you build a story
of what happened to the severed head of the boy created by Parvati. It is too
precious to be left to waste. And so is the baby-elephant with out a head!
A possible lead -
Now, the mother of the baby elephant who has lost its head, is
grieved .That elephant is a devotee of Lord Vishnu , whom she approaches.
Vishnu uses his Sudarshana Chakra to locate the severed head of the boy created
by Parvati.This could be fixed on to the body of baby-elephant to revive it.
But, the problem is, with all the intelligence in the celestial head, how could
it feed and sustain the elephant body,without the elephant-trunk? Like
Narasimha, Hayagreeva This Human with elephant body could be called by
Gajamaanava or similar name.
Also, include a
situation where Gajamanava meets his cousin Gajanana!!
Now Start Thinking and
weaving a nice interesting Story!! GOOD LUCK.
MERRY
XMAS - HAPPY NEW YEAR GOD BLESS YOU
HAPPYMANTATA
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