Acknowledging Prehistoric India as Delineated in the Shiva Trilogy

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Page: 40-42

Poonam Lawat and Nayana Phogat (Department of English, School of Social Sciences & Humanities, OM Sterling Global University, Hisar, Haryana)

A myth is a story that is transferred across generations. The use of myth along with history in Indian fiction is quite ancient. It attempts to justify in what way the world is associated with us or the ideal way to manage the collaborations among themselves. Mythological novels is becoming universally acknowledged in India over the last few years. This paper intends to place this correlation in “Shiva Trilogy”, the extremely famous novels of Amish Tripathi. The Amish’s devotion of Shiva replicates in Shiva’s Trilogy. My textual examines on how myth as well as history represent a different perception and how Tripathi introduce Shiva as immature, man-like, having complex characters, compared to the ancient portrayal of gods in Indian mythology. The series discovers Shiva’s formation from human being to Mahadev, the Supreme deity. Tripathi’s Shiva Trilogy is a recontextualizing of the Shiva myth also forwarded the mortal side of Shiva. Shiva Trilogy is a fascinating series which illuminates the religion and principle, the eternal dispute among good and evil.