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VOL. 16 No. 4
DID YOU KNOW?
diViNE Childhood Before Lord Rama, Dashratha first had
a daughter named Shanta. Kaushalya’s
Many Indian Epics have elaborated on the childhood of elder sister did not have an offspring and
Gods and Goddesses. These stories help people connect to Dashratha let her adopt the child.
the idea of Gods reincarnated as human beings. Srishti, VII G, P.K.R. Jain Senior Secondary
Public School, Ambala
Pratham gogia, X D, bharatiya Vidya bhavan’s Public school, Jubilee hills, hyderabad
KRISHNA CHRONICLES
RAMAyANA’S BAAL KANDA Lord Krishna has been shown as
The Baal Kanda is the first part of Valmiki’s Ramayana. a mischievous child. Once, his
The stories highlight Rama’s innocence. Once, as a mother prepared a pot of butter,
baby, he was being fed and to keep it away from him, she
by his mother when he tied it from the ceiling. Krishna got
saw the bright full moon his friends together, formed a human
outside the window. He pyramid, broke the pot, and enjoyed
insisted that he wanted the butter! This is the human pyramid
it. His mother brought a that they make during the Janamashtami
mirror for Rama, in which celebrations.
he saw the reflection of the P. Vaishnavi, iX, Olivet school, Maharanipeta,
moon. He was overjoyed Illustration by: Kashish, X, Sri Sathya Vishakhapatnam; Keshab De, iX b, army Illustration by: Garima Rawat,
that he had finally got the Sai Jagriti Vidya Mandir, Public school, ambala Cantt. sania Jain, VI A, Scholars Home Sr. Sec.
School, Dehradun
iX h, gwalior glory high school, gwalior,
moon! Darwa, Jagadhri Muskan Mehlawat, Muskan Yadav, Nupur
sharma, and Mahi Parashar, X C, ajanta Public school, sector- 31, gurugram
Kashish, X, sri sathya sai Jagriti Vidya Mandir, Darwa, Jagadhri; avani,
V b, gitanjali Devashray, hyderabad ACTIVITY: POEMS OF PRAISE
Surdas, the renowned poet from the 16 century,
th
belonging to the Bhakti movement, wrote a doha (a lyrical
MIRACLES OF JESUS verse) about Krishna’s mischief.
In Christianity, Jesus “मैया मोहि मैं निी माखन खायौ ।
has been depicted भोर भयो गैयन के पाछे, मधुबन मोहि पठायो ।
as a child who is way चार पिर बंसीबट भटक्ो, साँझ परे घर आयो ।।
ahead of his years with मैं बालक बहियन को छोटो, छीको हकहि बबधध पायो ।
wisdom. Stories of his
childhood have him ग्ाल बाल सब बैर पड़े िै, बरबस मुख लपटायो ।।”
performing miracles. As Find a similar poem in your regional language on any
a child, he once saved deity. Mention the writer too.
his brother James, who got bitten by a poisonous
snake while he was collecting straw. Jesus quickly blew
upon the wound and brought him back to life. SIDDHARTHA AND THE SwAN

Once, Buddha, born as Siddhartha, and his cousin,
ACTIVITY: GODLY CHILDHOOD Devadatta spotted a beautiful swan. Devadatta shot
Look at the images given below. Find out the stories it with an arrow. Siddhartha, upset, nursed the bird.
associated with the baby Jesus and Krishna and write them Devadatta claimed ownership of the bird and he took
in your own words. him to the court of justice. There, he was told that
the bird belonged to the one
who saved its life, not the
one who took it. Siddhartha
then took the bird and set
it free proclaiming that the
bird belonged to no one.
Illustration by: Vaishnavi Raj, IX A, Scholars
Home Sr. Sec. School, Dehradun

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