Week 7 Reading Notes, Sunity Devee Part A



Savitri
  • Visited hermitages and was well educated
  • Soul mates love at first sight 
  • Kind to old people 
  • Princess can't marry exiled beggar but loves him only but doesn't want to disobey her parents bit her parents love her and don't want to force her to obey
  • He's destined to die in a year
  • Woman's destiny is to love?
  • "The year may short, but the happiness will be heavenly to me, and it's memory will live forever! And, if it is written for me to become a widow, I shall be one, no matter whom I marry."
  • They get married and she leaves the palace to help care for his blind father.
  • Yom, Lord of Death
  • She was granted children but she can't have kids without a husband so she got him back?


Damayanti
  • "A crumpled leaf lay in his bed of roses"
  • Has a daughter Damayanti who even has 4 gods as her suitors
  • Nal wins her heart with a letter in a bird's beak
  • More blushing
  • Oh good there are tests let's test more women
  • Even though he's broke she still loves him
  • Don't try to catch animals
  • Well at least the clouds are testing Nal too
  • Working for her aunt
  • Secret Nal?
  • Cool she's pure and true

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