This is quite similar to the many-worlds hypothesis being put forward by some quantum physicists today. In one such for example, it is said that there is one Shiva and Parvati pair looking after one universe, and there are many such pairs in creation. Several stories in the purana deal with how Shiva creates the universe. I, as a woman, had translated these with my own views as a doctor of the 21st century and I am told that. Fritjof Capra for instance, narrates in his book “The Tao of Physics”, how similar in structure the statue of Nataraja (Shiva as the Lord of Dance) is to the traces left behind by subatomic particles in a Bubble Chamber. Prasthanathraya -Upanishads, Brahmasuthra and Bhagavad Gita- the most important Bhashya of Sankaracharya are the essence of Indian Philosophy. The Shiv Puran is today a matter of interest for many physicist-philosophers, since many of the stories bear an uncanny resemblance to the descriptions given by modern cosmology regarding the creation and birth of the universe. This is a common theme in all Indian mythology, an alludes to the impossibility of encompassing knowledge of all creation within a book, or any number of books for that matter. Sawant depicts an uncanny similarity between Krishna and Karna and hints at a mystic link between them, investing his protagonist with a more-than-human aura to offset the un-heroic and even unmanly acts which mar this tremendously complex and utterly fascinating creating of Vyasa.The Shiv Puran as we have it today is said to be only a fragment of what originally existed. These are interspersed with a book each from the lips of his unwed mother Kunti, Duryodhana (who considers Karna his mainstay), Shon (Shatruntapa, his foster-brother, who here-worships him), his wife Vrishali to whom he is like a god and, last of all, Krishna. With deceptive case, Sawant brings into play an exceptional stylistic innovation by combining six "dramatic soliloquies" to form the nine books of this novel of epic dimensions. Mrityunjaya is the autobiography of Karna, and yet it is not just that. For over two decades since its first publication the vast non- Marathi and non-Hindi readership remained deprived of this remarkable exploration of the human psyche till the publication of this English translation by the Writers workshop – a contribution for which there is much to be grateful for. Shivaji Sawant's Mrityunjaya is an outstanding instance of such a literary masterpiece in which a contemporary Marathi novelist investigates the meaning of the bewildering skein that is life through the personae of the Mahabharata protagonists. The search for the meaning of Being is man's eternal quest and the subject of his greatest creations.
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