The fifth source

THE FIFTH SOURCE Disha Mehta

The temple tomb resounded of the chants, Hari om, Hari om!!!

Thousands well victim to deathat that year!

Mr.dasgupta’s wife too fell victim of this disease....

... and they spake to a doctor who gavest them little hope

It was writ that a visit to Shanishignapur temple

Would ameeliorate one's health !

For that very purpose them twain made a visit tither.

An archeologist of renoen was he, respected and well known in his field.

As soon as they reached the temple did the pandit guiede them thru the strait meets of the temple conventions .

Thou shall not wrought a door upon thy facade of thy house.

Thou shall not go out of thine house, eft the sun fallen.

Thou shall not look into the eye of a maiden

Thou shall not interrogate an elder amongst men.

Mr Dasgupta was tarrying a while to rest her fragile person. when the man sawed a lady walk athwart that house

This happened oft, for a few days and the wife’s health too started improving.

Prayers and prasad betwixt the betel leaf aided the wife to recover.

On every beetle leaf was a scripture scribbed.

that had never been sighted or gained dechiper.

Hari om , hari om chanted they through every morn with bearing the beetle leaf

Yonder espied they, the same lady; she reading the scripture upon the beetle leaf .

It came upon one eve that the lady was naught in sight.

That very day was the wife ill as she had been in days past.

Mr Dasgupta embarked on studying the scripture and found four symbols fixed upon the leaf therewithal inly carved in the temple vicinity

It is He, the vital spark in earth, lighting in the sky, surya the sun. It is He, the sap in the plant that is carried down to them by the rain. It was he, considered as one of the most puissant sons , and be told rice to throw hither and thither the temple , sayeth the pujari.

Mr dasgupta embarked on a walk towards the nearest source of. water Thereby to discover another symbol

Was there a passerby to inform him.

Eft the wars the gods and demons betwix, each were assigned roles whence was that the water god lost his seige

As was sayed in the mythical scripĂ— tures, Vayu was come to gain importance over, the water god.

Applying this myth, between vayu and dharti , chose he vayu, as his next element of life.

...he reached a closed room locked with a door.

Walking in the direction of wind...

And he quickly ran towards the holy tree

The villagers too were ignorant of the fifth element. He was perplexed.He had to find the lady.

Tried he to analyze the chant so to gain a portent omen.

URJA !!!

URJA !!!

URJA!!!

Found he, it meaned life in ancient script.

Went forth he eft sunset.

In quest of the lady.

URJA URJA

Set in her eyes did he see the fifth element

..and he gaved way to disbelief

Homeward bounded he, and sawed his wife was palled no longer.

The eftmorn, returned he to that tree ...

..and wreathed it in flowers , coconuts did he offer to re-Incarnate the lady.

Villagers did less approve.

No sooner the lady left than the traces of the epidemic were getting washed away. The village was respite from the epidemic.

That day forth , rituals were performed , in tribute of the lady and flowers and coconut were offered along with beetle leaf.

All character s in th is book are fictitious, any resem blance between the character s in th is book and any per so n s, living or d ead, is a miracl e.

Credits ;Shrujana Shridar Anjum Maria m Tushar Vivan Ka math Rut uja Patil Prateek Vatash Sreeja Basu Adrita Das Rigzin Tzenwan Tanushree Agarwal Sadhna Prasad Shreyan sh Agarwal Siddhant Shetty Karan Worah