The Oath of the Vayuputras question

Shiva just displayed that he was no Mahadev. He blatantly broke his promise to Mithra and let his personal tragedy take over his process of decision making. One Meluhan woman, said that she is absolutely devoted to Neelkanth but would not like to leave Devagiri. When they see Neelkanth as their god, he could have surely talked them out of Devagiri, for they'd listen to him. Not that I was in anyway attached to any character at Devagiri but I did feel sad for Parvateshwar, for he fought a genuine war. Shiva had every right to be angry against Vidyunmali and Daksha but not the others. Killing those two and destroying the Somras manufacturing facility would have proved that he was a mahadev.

Shiva has let this happen more than once. After Drapku's death too, Shiva came close to killing Parshuram in anger, but changed his mind when he realised that he was a Vasudev.

Going by all these, Shiva is no mahadev, but just an ordinary person, with an anger management problem like anyone else.

the only ones who maintained their characters to the very end of the book are parvatheshwar, anandmayi and sati... even shiva ruined our expectations at the end... the pashupatiastra should never have been used... however wrong, the destruction of meluha cannot be justified... even by the mahadev himself...

I think, the Shiva's character is clear from the beginning. He never agreed that he is God. We are forgetting Meluhans (the true followers of Rama) consider lie itself is a unforgivable sin. They all felt responsible for listening to their Emperor. They felt rather than living with those sins, they wanted to die in the hands of their beloved God. In the other hand, we have to remember Shiva is not a Vayuputra (they hold the responsibilities to save the Good). Shiva just driven by his emotions. We also have to remember, Sati is half part of Shiva, when he lost her, he lost half him too.

Overall all the characters thought they are doing right thing (including in-intelligent Daksha). I would say everybody is Mahadev (according to Shiva).

but why demolish a whole city, i can not understand the concept behind it , was it to portray the life-death-life cycle?

Firstly, the interpretation that Shiva wanted to destroy Devagiri is incorrect. He wanted to destruct the secret Somras manufacturing facilities knowing the fact that over use of Somaras was having evil effects. Secondly, all the innocent inhabitants of Devagiri were given chance to leave the city apart from the ones who knew the know how to manufacture Somras. It was by choice and out of patriotism that the citizens chose to die with their beloved motherland. Thirdly, had Shiva desired to execute all the people consuming Somras, he would have destroyed entire Meluha and some Swadeepan royals too and not just Devagiri.
To conclude, it was not the PEOPLE or CITY which was destructed, it was the GOOD THAT TURNED OUT EVIL which was vanquished.

what amish was saying is that shiva was an ordinary human with human emotions but what i don't get is he wrote 3 books making us believe that he is a god ,but he never followed the advice given by his uncle to control his anger......how much ever misery he may have suffered by the death of sati........but it can never justify his act of murdering the entire population of devagiri....so i was dissapointed finally to see that shiva described in the book is no god....he is just a normal human like the rest of us........and i was very disappointed with the ending.

Because Har Har Mahadev. Any person in his/her fate would deserve it such so. Why only the character name Shiva lead the story in limelight, it's any one of character like Parvateshvar who might be the legend of this book, he is a strong character.

I could honestly feel that the book was simply trailing off till the time Sati gets killed in battle , because I was expecting Shiva to just go on a destructive spree, I was honestly taken aback at the stance he held and the way morals and ethics were just crushed to dust in the final 50 pages , out of the characters I felt Bhrigu emerged as a wise and forgiving man alongwith Parvateshwar and the Suryavanshis. Shiva displayed a very flawed character when he chose not to sacrifice one naga for an agreement , but chose to murder the whole city for the death of Sati. The ethical end would have been to eliminate Daksha, end the war and find out Vidyunmali and realize his plot and then head of to Egypt to avenge sati ...

Before Sati's death, Amish made Shiva rise up to the level of God and it looked believable. However he (Shiva) also kept mentioning that he is just a man.
The wrath of Shiva dropped him down to that common level again and in the end, he emerged as a normal human rather than a God.
On the other hand, Parvateshwar and Sati kept their characters clean by showing the true belief in their principles and never compromising the integrity of dharma.

BTW, it is Hara Hara Mahadeva, not Har Har Mahadev.

The Writer gives you scope to analysis what you think of your god . Lord Shiva has always been depicted as destroyer . Shiva had uncontrolled anger which led to his transformation as per Shiva trilogy in the end . In fact Shiva is the most complicated yet lovable god of all for me because of his love towards HIS love (Sati)and for the act that he did for Sati. He knew he would demean the god's status but his love was so strong that he tried to leave the stature of god.
The writer has a view so does everyone we do not have a manuscript of that time or some proof we just have stories and its being passed to us from our forefathers so it could be highly adulated or demeaned leave that thing for individuals to decide
I personally loved the idea, he never favored to destroy people though he wanted to destroy Somrash so stop blaming BHOLE BABA

I think the author has tried to connect the story of real the Shiva as the God "the destroyer" throughout his 3 books. If we keep that in mind we have to relate to the old story where Lord Shiva does the "thanadavam" after the death of Sati. I think it was a logical ending knowing the fact that there is only so much a person or even a God can forgive!!

Put yourself in his place and if something of that sort happened to you knowing how much wrong was done to you and are given the power to avenge. What would you have done??

Many "humans" over the years have destroyed the country and life of innocent just for their personal reasons or vendetta. This will keep happening... The author has just given it a reality check to end the novel. Cheers to our soo called "HUMANITY"!!!

First of all in this series Shiva is presented as a human being and not a god. It's obvious that at one point humans do loose control no matter how wise and librated you are. And don't tell me you won't loose it when someone will kill the only person whom you love the most.

And second thing would be Shiva himself. Even though shiva in this trilogy is an human but as a god in mythology we are not unaware of anger of Lord Rudra, the god of distraction it self. There were times in mythology when Mahadev the god of gods wanted to destroy whole world just because he was angry and broken before limits and no power in universe was not able to stop him. Deep down he had his won reasons, reasons that beyond understanding but the whole point here is we are talking about the Lord Rudra, his name it selves means something right?

Hope you will agree with me.
Hara hara Mahadev

"Amish Tripathi", I will certainly like to meet him one day. Recently a few of my relatives went to the Manasa Sarovar trip. The story of their journey was very close to what I have read in these books. For sure, these relatives of mine have not read the books but looks like the tour guide mentioned to them very strange things, like at night once in a while they hear some kind of sounds coming from the mountain as if somebody is trying to open some kind of gate. and till date no one has climbed Mount Kailash peak etc...etc....I wonder if these dudes are the character from Amish trilogy ..The Parihans?

When I was listening to them... I was wondering .....does the Mitra exist even today as part of Vayuputra? In another edition (Sita Series), he talkes about Lord Ram, Sita, and Ravana ..there too Amish is making the point that they were all ordinary people like us.
Now if the Vayuputra really exist good for them that they are covered in slow. Living in a place like Bangalore/Delhi which is full of carbon dioxide, for sure their white skin would have turned black.
Rape was common even during Ramayan time, that's what Amish called out in his first book Sita series. And it exists even today.
If there is any group that is living in Mount Kailash, then you better be there...If you are waiting for some Nilkanth again, then please check the throat of our politician .....never know they are aging already and you guys have still not started your research...

I had good fun listening to my relatives and equal fun searching google about Mount Kailash. And during my search, I did read that one Russain has written the same that he hears sounds .......

ufffffff enough problem we have in our own country and this dude has gone to Mount Kailash to research ...as if God is sitting there to check if people are doing their R&D or not......

Cheers guys ......

Read all the 3 books. Amish Tripathi is an anti-Hindu atheist who gave Shiva a bad name in the end.

Amish successfully converted Shiva into a villian in the end of a fictitious story by destroying a fictitious flourishing city that was fictitiously built on the principles of Maryada Purushotham, Shri Ram!

What many did not realize is the undertone Amish Tripathi set. According to Amish, all "Good" converts to "Evil". He converted the "Good" Shiva into "Evil" Shiva at the end. The most evil of all are anti-Hindu writers like "Amish Tripathi" who do a great disservice to Hinduism.