Myths and Legends 122-Indian Folklore: Let it Be
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Oct 3, 2018 A king fights against fate, a young man survives the impossible, a hermit reads the future from his toilet. The podcast explores the long road to becoming who you were always meant to be in Indian folklore.
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The King and the Hermit
- A king chases a stag into a forest and encounters a hermit reading fates with leaves.
- The hermit reveals the king's daughter's fate: marrying a slave's son.
The King's Deception
- The king, disguised as a peddler, retrieves Peruna and kills her to prevent the prophecy.
- Unable to kill Peruna's baby, he abandons him in a cave.
Nur Muhammad's Upbringing
- An old woman discovers the abandoned baby, Nur Muhammad, and raises him.
- Nur is falsely accused and sentenced to the army after defending his cabbages from a donkey.