The Parijata Tree

by Anant Pai

When Satyabhama, Krishna's fiery wife, gets offended by the behaviour of Indra's wife Sachi, the two gods come to war over the lovely Parijata tree. The princess Lakshmana is determined to marry Krishna. Her father must ensure that during the swayamwara only Krishna will win his daughter. Sage Narada provokes Satyabhama into agreeing to give him Krishna, unless she can find something heavier than him. But all her possessions together prove to be lighter than Krishna.

Genres: Comics

31 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 1, 1984

About the author

Anant Pai popularly known as Uncle Pai, was an Indian educationalist and creator of Indian comics, in particular the Amar Chitra Katha series in 1967, along with the India Book House publishers, and which retold traditional Indian folk tales, mythological stories, and biographies of historical characters. In 1980, he launched Tinkle, a children's anthology, which was started under Rang Rekha Features, India's first comic and cartoon syndicate, that lasted till 1998, with him as the Managing Director.

Today, Amar Chitra Katha sells about three million comic books a year, in English and more than 20 Indian languages, and has sold about 100 million copies since it inception in 1967 by Anant Pai, and in 2007 was taken over by ACK Media.

Reviews

[Geetanjali · Rating 4 out of 5]

The story I knew was Shreekrishna brought the Parijat tree (after a bit of drama caused by sage Narada ) for Satyabhama and planted it in Satyabhama’s side of palace in such a way that the flowers fell on Rukmini’s side of palace space. I thought the story is included in this book but it’s not.☹️
There is one more story about the flowers getting a curse to bloom only during night and falling at dawn ( Don’t remember the entire story exactly😣, I expected them herein since the name of the book...☹️)
Got to know that, Shreekrishna and Lakshamana’s swayamvar contest was quite similar to Arjuna and Draupadi’s🤞🏻.

Nice book, mythology never disappoint you; especially when it’s related to Lord Shreekrishna ✌🏻.

[K · Rating 3 out of 5]

The story of the Parijata tree seemed to be cut short or maybe there are multiple versions of the story.
I was unaware of the story of Lakshmana's swayamwar. It reminded me of Draupadi's swayamwar from the Mahabharata and Sita mata's swayamwar from the Ramayana.
I was aware of the last story, the one where Rukmini weighed Krishna with love and devotion. It was the best story in the book.

[Perugu Shyamsagar · Rating 5 out of 5]

Interesting Krishna Story of Selflessness

It's a simple story with meaningful morale. These stories about Krishna not only teaches lessons for life but also adds on to the knowledge on Indian factology.

[Advay · Rating 4 out of 5]

Epic book

Awesome book with good stories 👍👍👍👍👍 👍👍👍👍 very exciting
The best please not buy this book ! It's great !

[Kiran Kumar · Rating 5 out of 5]

Awesome book

Good book,these books would put our culture intact great wealth next generation will have the repository pictorial to pass on to futuengeneratioms

[Evelyn · Rating 3 out of 5]

was new

[BADRINATHMJ · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good book

Nice mythology book for children. Nice for narration.
Good picture reading book for child.
No harsh pics or foul language.

[Ravi Kumar Dandapani]

nice