Episode Discussion Thread #18 01/09/2016 - END - Page 17

Originally posted by: sashashyam

The saat janam and the ardhangini - vamangi conundrums

Folks,

Many of you sound depressed and exasperated by the news of the early demise of our show. While I still hope that it might get some more time, let us try and amuse ourselves with a little puzzle. Or to be precise, two puzzles.

I do not know if some or all of you are as confused as I am by the above definitions of the marriage, and the status of the wife, as reiterated again and again in the show - earlier by Ashoka for Kaurwaki, and now by the officiating priest for Ashoka and Devi (for the saat janam) and by Ashoka for Devi post their marriage, both in private and in public (for the ardhangini/vamangi)

While this might be OK for the ek patnivrat husbands like Lord Rama, it is bound to result in disastrous complications for our Ashoka, who was not even serially monogamous!😉

The ardhangini concept is of course derived from the Ardhanaareeswara roop of Mahadev and Parvati, and the vamangi (the one who is his left half) is the same. Now imagine each of Ashoka's five legally wedded queens all demanding their full half share of him, and each of them fighting with the others to secure her right.

That would need about 2 1/2 of him, whereas there is only one half available for distribution, since he needs the other half for himself. I suspect that Devi would soon retire to the sidelines, but the other four would be there slugging it out.

The poor chap, if he did not run for cover in time, would be torn to bits.😉😉

The saat janam concept is equally fraught with dangerous possibilities, even for the monogamous. Let us say that a marriage sours for whatever reason, which is getting to be more and more common these days. The prospect of repeating this unpleasant exercise for 6 more births is enough to put even the most optimistic off marriage for good!

To come back to our Ashoka, if each of the five queens was bound to him not just for this life, but for six more lives, there would be a regular traffic jam in the reincarnation pipeline. And scrimmages over the order in which they would (re)marry him, who would be his chief queen and so on and on that would put a tough football match to shame.😉

Plus, they might all end up in a era where even bigamy is punishable by law, what to speak of polygamy. Then we would have Ashoka the Great in jail for years, with the five queens now fighting over who would take special home-cooked meals for him in prison.😉

Shyamala/Aunty

Originally posted by: MuguetDScorpion

One slap by KWK and he lost his mind.

One push by Devi and he comes back to senses.

Waaah !!! 👏

Originally posted by: sashashyam

The saat janam and the ardhangini - vamangi conundrums

Folks,

Many of you sound depressed and exasperated by the news of the early demise of our show. While I still hope that it might get some more time, let us try and amuse ourselves with a little puzzle. Or to be precise, two puzzles.

I do not know if some or all of you are as confused as I am by the above definitions of the marriage, and the status of the wife, as reiterated again and again in the show - earlier by Ashoka for Kaurwaki, and now by the officiating priest for Ashoka and Devi (for the saat janam) and by Ashoka for Devi post their marriage, both in private and in public (for the ardhangini/vamangi)

While this might be OK for the ek patnivrat husbands like Lord Rama, it is bound to result in disastrous complications for our Ashoka, who was not even serially monogamous!😉

The ardhangini concept is of course derived from the Ardhanaareeswara roop of Mahadev and Parvati, and the vamangi (the one who is his left half) is the same. Now imagine each of Ashoka's five legally wedded queens all demanding their full half share of him, and each of them fighting with the others to secure her right.

That would need about 2 1/2 of him, whereas there is only one half available for distribution, since he needs the other half for himself. I suspect that Devi would soon retire to the sidelines, but the other four would be there slugging it out.

The poor chap, if he did not run for cover in time, would be torn to bits.😉😉

The saat janam concept is equally fraught with dangerous possibilities, even for the monogamous. Let us say that a marriage sours for whatever reason, which is getting to be more and more common these days. The prospect of repeating this unpleasant exercise for 6 more births is enough to put even the most optimistic off marriage for good!

To come back to our Ashoka, if each of the five queens was bound to him not just for this life, but for six more lives, there would be a regular traffic jam in the reincarnation pipeline. And scrimmages over the order in which they would (re)marry him, who would be his chief queen and so on and on that would put a tough football match to shame.😉

Plus, they might all end up in a era where even bigamy is punishable by law, what to speak of polygamy. Then we would have Ashoka the Great in jail for years, with the five queens now fighting over who would take special home-cooked meals for him in prison.😉

Shyamala/Aunty

Originally posted by: .Subha.

And one hit on his head and he always loses his consciousness🤣

Originally posted by: Sandhya.A

Wish Acharya Chanakya had given Ashoka one on his head strongly enough!😈

Originally posted by: ---Andromeda---

If Acharya Chanakya had given him one then he would have forgotten everything about KWK and focused his mind only on Akhand Bharat mission 🤣

Originally posted by: ---Andromeda---

If Acharya Chanakya had given him one then he would have forgotten everything about KWK and focused his mind only on Akhand Bharat mission 🤣