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| Image credit: George Tooker, self-portrait |
A legacy that a large sea-snail can leave behind, epic wars of relics like Mahabharatha and Ramayana began with one deserted small house of a sea-snail - conch. The amazing sound that can be produced from a conch is another different dazzling creation of nature altogether. In Hindu mythology, when a conch is blown, it marks the beginning of a war, death and agony. An insignificant snail that made its home in Paanchjanya (Lord Krishna's conch) must have been a very significant one to have started Mahabharatha war.
I wish the Department of Archaeology restored the souvenir of a happy home of a snail paving way for destruction, agony and loss! Lastly, not to forget, re-establishment of Dharma.
Written for Magpie Tales: mag 289
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8 comments:
I guess snails have Empires too
@Kutamun. Really? I didn't know that.
I can hear that ancient conch...
Did it foretell anything?
I had no idea! Thank you!
@Kathleen. Mention not. :-)
Well said ... the significance of a shell :-)
@Amrit Sinha. Thank you!
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