The Bridge to Patala

di Chinmoy Mukherjee (Autore)

Chinmoy Mukherjee, 2025

In the shadowed annals of ancient lore, when sky and fate conspired to unmake the world, thirty-four rishis of Bharat gathered beneath a bruised firmament. A colossal asteroid, a mountain of fire and iron, raced toward the cradle of civilization. The sages—keepers of law, craft, and song—were summoned by visions and by the urgency of dharma. Their plan was audacious: to pierce eight kilometers of living rock, to span a two-kilometer abyssal ocean with a bridge of living verse and engineered craft, and to lead the seeds of life—human, animal, and vegetal—into Patal, a subterranean realm of rivers, caverns, and memory, ten kilometers beneath the crust. This novella traces that exodus. Each chapter is a portrait of a rishi whose temperament, tapas, and skill shaped one facet of the descent and the subterranean polity that followed. Some forged wards of iron and mantra; others taught households how to ferment roots in the dark; some bargained with the sea, others taught children to sing the names of plants. Together they wove a polity from necessity: law braided with ritual, craft braided with song, hospitality braided with discipline. The catastrophe above was not merely escaped; it was translated into a new set of practices that allowed civilization to continue in a different register.

• Autore: Chinmoy Mukherjee
• Anno edizione: 2025
• Editore: Chinmoy Mukherjee
• Formato: EPUB2 con DRMFREE
• Lingua: Inglese
• Compatibilità: Tutti i dispositivi (eccetto Kindle)
• Layout: Reflowable
• EAN: 9798232005245