Saturday, May 22, 2010

My reading homework 22/5/10

STORY :  The Lord Krishna and the Lapwing's Nest  PAGE 1-10   30MIN


It is the battle of Kurukshetra. The white conch shells were about to sound,
the elephants to march forward, and the attack of the archers to commence. 
The moment was brief and terrible. Banners were flying and the charioteers preparing
for the advance. Suddenly a little lapwing, who has built her nest in the turf of a hillock 
in the midst of the battlefield draw the attention of the Lord Krishna by her cries of
anxiety and distress for her young. Poor little mother! he said tenderly let this be
thy protection! And lifting a great elephant-bell that had fallen near he place it over
the lapwing's nest. And so through the eighteen days of raging battle that follow a
lapwing and her nestlings were keep in safety in their nest by the mercy of the lord
even in the midst of the raging field of Kurukshetra.



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