Hello friends,
It is obvious that the lead characters in the show are influenced by the shiv parvati story.
Although there are obviously many differences but we do spot similarities from time to time.
I was intrigued by the shiv parvati story (thanks to the show) and tried googling a bit. Although different sources give different
details about certain points, the broad outline more or less is the same.
I am just broadly giving here what i learnt, in case anyone is interested :)
(I have also specified the reference articles/links below):
Sati (daughter of King Daksha) from a very young age was a very ardent devotee of lord shiva. As she grew into a beautiful woman, the idea of marrying anyone else, as proposed by her father, became abhorrent to her. She rejected every proposal from rich and valiant kings because she wanted to marry only shiv.
Her father Daksha was a proud and haughty king and didn't think much of Shiva calling him a dirty, roaming ascetic. The wedding was however held when Brahma intervened (much against Daksha's wishes). Their union is celebrated on the new moon in February which is called Mahashivratri.
After the wedding Shiva took Sati, his new bride, to his mountain home.Shiva could not lavish enough attention on his lovely bride. Even though he himself wore the skins of wild animals, he had built for Sati an exquisite palace.
To Daksha (Satis father), Shiva was an unorthodox hermit, who frequented cremation grounds. No yogi with long matted hair, who consumes intoxicants, sings and dances whenever he pleases, was a worthy husband for his daughter.After Sati's marriage, Daksha distanced himself from his daughter, and his son-in-law, Shiva. Shortly after Sati had left her home with her father to live with Shiva, Daksha organized a great party, a yagna or ritual sacrifice. He invited all the members of his family, and his subjects, conciously excluding shiva and sati from the list. He also set up a statue of Shiva, at the entrance to his hall, which he defiled and mocked.
Wanting to visit her parents, Sati sought to rationalize this omission. She reasoned within herself that her parents had neglected to make a formal invitation to them only because, as family, such formality was unnecessary. Sati was hurt by her father's refusal to acknowledge her marriage and her husband and decided to go to the party.
Shiva tried to dissuade her, but she had resolved go, so he provided her with an escort of his ganas and requested that she maintain her composure in the face of insults that Daksha would heap upon him.
When she arrived her father, sniggering, said "Perhaps you have come to your senses and have had it with your wild animal of a husband, isn't he also called Lord of the Beasts?" Daksha went onto insult Shiva. Some of the guests began to laugh. Sati was hurt by the insult to her husbandand devastated with the harsh words and taunts of her father.She trembled with disgust and indignation at having been so cruelly let down by the one man upon whom she, as a daughter, should always be able to rely. She walked past her father and sat in a meditative seat on the ground. Closing her eyes, envisioning her true Lord, Sati fell into a mystic trance. Going deep within herself she began to increase her own inner fire through yogic exercises until her body burst into flames.
Shiva sensed this catastrophe, and his rage was incomparable. He loved Sati more than any and would never love after her. So, he created Virabhadra and Bhadrakali, or collectively Manbhadra, two ferocious creatures who wreaked havoc and mayhem on the scene of the horrific incident. Nearly all those present were indiscriminately felled overnight. Daksha himself was decapitated.
According to some traditions, it is believed that an angry Shiva performed the fearsome and awe-inspiring Tandava dance with Sati's charred body on his shoulders. During this dance, Sati's body came apart and the pieces fell at different places on earth. According to another version, Shiva placed Sati's body on his shoulder and ran about the world, crazed with grief. The Gods called upon the god Vishnu to restore Shiva to normalcy and calm. Vishnu used his Sudarshana Chakra to dismember Sati's lifeless body, following which Shiva regained his equanimity. Both versions state that Sati's body was thus dismembered into 51 pieces which fell on earth at various places. Several different listings of these 51 holy places, known as Shakti Peethas, are available; some of these places have become major centers of pilgrimage as they are held by the Goddess-oriented Shakta sect to be particularly holy. Besides 51 main Shakti pethas, some small peethas like Bindudham have also in existence which are due to Sati's fallen blood drops.
After the night of horror, Shiva, the all-forgiving, restored all those who were slain to life and granted them his blessings. Even the abusive and culpable Daksha was restored both his life and his kingship. His decapitated head was substituted for that of a goat. Having learned his lesson, Daksha spent his remaining years as a devotee of Shiva.
References:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sati_(goddess)
https://www.naturallyyoga.com/files/shiva_sati.htm
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