Shanti Parva

Published on 9th February, 2018, in The Economic Times. In the beginning, in the first age of man known as Krita yuga, all was well. People respected property and women. But as the wheel of time turned and Krita yuga came to an end, people encroached on property and violated women. Lying and theft became common. So people went to Brahma who composed a complex treatise on dharma (order), artha (economics) and kama (pleasure), which was abridged and edited by Shiva, and later by Brihaspati and Shukra, the gurus of the devas and the asuras. But these treatises were not good enough; so Vishnu was ..