Brad's Indian Epics Blog

Mustard Seeds, Wikicommons For this week I chose to do another planning post, because it will help prepare me for writing a new story, and I also learned a few things about my topic through the Jatakas that I read. For instance, in one story there is a woman who marries a rich merchant and has one child. The child eventually falls ill and dies. The mother is very distraught over the death of her child. She seeks the help of everyone in the village to aid her in possibly healing her child from the dead. She eventually gets directed to Buddha who tells her to bring him some mustard seeds that are from a home where no one has died. She spends a long time searching but does not find a home that fits the criteria, and it comes clear to her that death is imminent and a part of life. This little story can tie into my writing by changing it up a bit by having someone find mustard seed from a home that does fit the criteria and have the person come back to life, this would be a pretty eas...

Coriander, Wikicommons I decided to do a planning post for this week 10 assignment because it allows me to learn more about the topic I am writing about while completing an assignment. Flowers in Indian Epics  - This webpage contains a lot of great information about flowers that have appeared in a the epics we have already read, and in some of the Jatakas. It gives really good insight into what each flower represents and will help to guide my writing on my storybook in the future. For instance, the white waterlily blooms at night and is said to be friends with the moon and enemies of the sun. It also states that the woman's face is compared to the cool white beauty of the white waterlily. Popular Spices in Indian Dishes - This webpage lists a lot of popular spices that would probably have been used in the dishes that are the Mahabharata and the Ramayana. Indian Spices  - This webpage is more geared towards the history of the spices and contains a lot of deep infor...