Reading Notes: Tales of India

 I chose to read the Sacred Tales of India by D. N. Neogi. I have attached my notes below....

The Banished Girls

• Brahman widow has two daughters
• Devoted themselves to Lahshmi from a young age
• They cook and cleaned the house
• They didn't have much and they valued the purity of the world much more than riches
• Prayed to the goddess that she grants their father a new wife with a son so he could carry the family name
• The next morning he fell in love with a beautiful woman
• Once she gave birth to her son, she began to grow a hatred for her stepdaughters
• saw them as witches when they prayed to their goddess and would talk her husbands ear off about them.
• It got so bad that the father decided to banish his own two daughters
• One stormy night as they were sleeping, their father took them out in the middle of a forest and left them there
• An old lady was approaching them and they realized it was Lakshmi
• Two huntsmans for the prince approached the girls begging for water
• The prince and one. of his men instantly fell in love with the two girls and they got married

Bibliography:  Sacred Tales of India. D. N. Neogi. The Banished Girls. Part D

(Lakshmi: Link)