I abandoned it in favour of others, only to have it silently remind me of its presence. However, as all of you know, I am someone who gets distracted by newer and shinier books and it was the same with this book. I got it immediately and started reading it as well. Recently, when I subscribed to Kindle Unlimited, one of the first books to garner my interest was this same book, albeit an English translation this time. That copy is still at my father’s and I hope that one day I would find time to read the original soon. Seeing his enthusiasm, my husband’s uncle gifted him with a copy of the book in Marathi about the same time as my marriage. He loved it so much that he wanted to read the original Marathi version of the book.
YAYATI BOOK IN MARATHI PDF SERIES
Apparently, my father had read the Tamil translation of this book, which used to appear like a series in one of the Tamil magazines that he used to subscribe to. He was waxing poetic about this book and I was naturally curious. I first heard the name of this book some 14 years ago when my father started talking to one of my husband’s uncles about it. Of course, having read the book now when I am older, it is possible that he would have thought that I was too young for it, especially as I was pretty naïve in those days. However, despite him telling me all about these two mythological sagas, I don’t remember the name Yayati. He must have told them to me innumerable times and yet I never got tired of listening to his soft melodic voice reciting it, so much so that even today when I read a tale from either of these two mythological stories, I remember him and miss him a lot. I still remember going up to my grandfather once he had finished listening to the news at 9 and asking him to continue with these tales. He must have told them to me innumerable times and yet I never got tired of listening to his soft melodic voice reciting it, so much so that even today when I read a tale from either of these two mythological stories, I remember him and miss him a I grew up, like most kids in India, on a steady diet of tales from Ramayana and Mahabharata and their allied tales.
I grew up, like most kids in India, on a steady diet of tales from Ramayana and Mahabharata and their allied tales.