In productionDay One of the seven
Book One
दिवस १
The question at Naimisharanya, Shuka’s answer, and the making of the world
- Covers
- Skandha 1, 2, 3.1–22 · ends at the marriage of Kardama and Devahuti
- Parts
- 3
- Length
- About 520 pages, one volume
Where Book One stands
Updated from the production pipeline each time a chapter is locked.
- Part One · Skandha One 1 of 6 bound
- Part Two · Skandha Two Planned
- Part Three · Skandha Three, chapters 1–22 Planned
Contents
Parts, episodes, chapters
A part is a skandha. An episode is a sitting in the courtyard. Each chapter shows its verses.
- All-Access
- ◇ The frame — the courtyard, today
Part One Skandha One 19 scripture chapters · 808 verses · 6 episodes
EPISODE ONE The Seven Day Yajña 1.1–1.3 · 7 chapters Bound in proof
A thousand-year fire is burning in a forest, and the men tending it ask a storyteller the only question worth a thousand years — now that He has gone, where does dharma live?
- 1 The Second Evening the courtyard ◇
- 2 The Thousand-Year Fire 1.1.1–23
- 3 What is Dharma the courtyard, dusk ◇
- 4 The Supreme Dharma 1.2.1–34
- 5 The Equal Eye the courtyard, moonrise ◇
- 6 Hari Anant Hari Katha Ananta 1.3.1–27
- 7 Where Dharma Seeks Refuge 1.3.28–44
EPISODE TWO Vyasa’s Sorrow and Narada’s Song 1.4–1.7.12 · 6 chapters In boards
Chapter titles are published as each episode is bound.
Episode Two ›EPISODE THREE The Weapon and the Womb 1.7.13–1.8 Planned
Chapter titles are published as each episode is bound.
Episode Three ›EPISODE FOUR The Bed of Arrows 1.9–1.11 Planned
Chapter titles are published as each episode is bound.
Episode Four ›EPISODE FIVE The Great Departure 1.12–1.15 Planned
Chapter titles are published as each episode is bound.
Episode Five ›EPISODE SIX Seven Days 1.16–1.19 Planned
Chapter titles are published as each episode is bound.
Episode Six ›Part Two Skandha Two 10 scripture chapters · 393 verses
Part Three Skandha Three, chapters 1–22 22 scripture chapters · ends at the Kardama marriage
The frame
Seven days in one courtyard
In Book Zero, Parasharya — Vyasa in our own day — tells the Mahatmya in a temple courtyard to a boy named Anvesh and his parents. Book One opens in the same courtyard the following day, and more people have come. Each book is one day there.
From the workshop · Episode One
As it is being drawn
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The assembly at the thousand-year fire -
The fire itself -
The ladles, set down -
Suta on the dais -
The ground at first light -
The row
