Amish Tripathi - Scion of Ikshvaku

Amish is a 1974-born, IIM (Kolkata)-educated, boring banker turned happy author. The success of his debut book, The Immortals of Meluha (Book 1 of the Shiva Trilogy), encouraged him to give up a fourteen-year-old career in financial services to focus on writing. He is passionate about history, mythology and philosophy, finding beauty and meaning in all world religions.

Amish lives in Mumbai with his wife Preeti and son Neel.

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I wish many more would be inspired by Amish Tripathi...

- Amitabh Bachchan, Indian actor and living legend

Amish is Indias Tolkien

Business Standard

Amish is Indias first literary popstar

Shekhar Kapur, renowned filmmaker

Amish is ... the Paulo Coelho of the east.

Business World

Amishs mythical imagination mines the past and taps into the possibilities of the future. His book series, archetypal and stirring, unfolds the deepest recesses of the soul as well as our collective consciousness.

Deepak Chopra, world-renowned spiritual guru and bestselling author

Amish is a fresh new voice in Indian writing steeped in myth and history, with a fine eye for detail and a compelling narrative style.

Shashi Tharoor, Member of Parliament and
celebrated author

Amish has mastered the art of gathering, interpreting and presenting Indias many myths, folklores and legends, and blending all of that into fast-paced thrillers that change your views about Gods, cultures, histories, demons and heroes, forever.

Hi Blitz

Amishs philosophy of tolerance, his understanding of mythology and his avowed admiration for Shiva are evident in his best-selling works.

Verve

Tripathi is part of an emerging band of authors who have taken up mythology and history in a big way, translating bare facts into delicious stories.

The New Indian Express

one must congratulate Amish on reintroducing Hindu mythology to the youth of this country.

First City

Scion of Ikshvaku

Book 1

of the

Ram Chandra Series

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Amish

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Published by westland ltd 2015

First ebook edition: 2015

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either the product of the authors imagination or are used fictitiously and any resemblance to any actual person living or dead, events and locales is entirely coincidental.

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To my father, Vinay Kumar Tripathi,

and my mother, Usha Tripathi

Khalil Gibran said that parents are like a bow,

And children like arrows.

The more the bow bends and stretches, the farther the arrow flies.

I fly, not because I am special, but because they stretched for me.

Table of Contents

Om Namah Shivya

The universe bows to Lord Shiva.

I bow to Lord Shiva.

Rmarjyavs tvam, procchrayasva te iram

Nyyrtha yudhyasva, sarve u sama cara

Pariplaya durbalam, viddhi dharma varam

Procchrayasva te iram,

Rmarjyavs tvam.

You live in Rams kingdom, hold your head high.

Fight for justice. Treat all as equal.

Protect the weak. Know that dharma is above all.

Hold your head high,

You live in the kingdom of Ram.

List of Characters and Important Tribes

(In Alphabetical Order)

Arishtanemi: Military chief of the Malayaputras; right-hand man of Vishwamitra

Ashwapati: King of the north-western kingdom of Kekaya; a loyal ally of Dashrath; father of Kaikeyi

Bharat: Rams half-brother; son of Dashrath and Kaikeyi

Dashrath: The Chakravarti king of Kosala and emperor of Sapt Sindhu; husband of Kaushalya, Kaikeyi and Sumitra; father of Ram, Bharat, Lakshman, and Shatrughan

Janak: King of Mithila; father of Sita and Urmila

Jatayu: A captain of the Malayaputra tribe; a Naga friend of Sita and Ram

Kaikeyi: Daughter of King Ashwapati of Kekaya; second and the favourite wife of Dashrath; mother of Bharat

Kaushalya: Daughter of King Bhanuman of South Kosala and his wife Maheshwari; the eldest queen of Dashrath; mother of Ram

Kubaer: Trader and ruler of Lanka before Raavan

Kumbhakarna: Raavans brother; he is also a Naga (a human being born with deformities)

Kushadhwaj: King of Sankashya; younger brother of Janak

Lakshman: One of the twin sons of Dashrath; born to Sumitra; faithful to Ram; later married to Urmila

Malayaputras: The tribe left behind by Lord Parshu Ram, the sixth Vishnu

Manthara: The richest merchant of Sapt Sindhu; an ally of Kaikeyi

Mrigasya: General of Dashraths army; one of the nobles
of Ayodhya

Nagas: A feared race of human beings born with deformities

Nilanjana: Lady doctor attending to members of the royal family of Ayodhya, she hails from South Kosala

Raavan: King of Lanka; brother of Vibhishan, Shurpanakha and Kumbhakarna

Ram : Eldest of four brothers, son of Emperor Dashrath of Ayodhya (the capital city of Kosala kingdom) and his eldest wife Kaushalya; later married to Sita

R oshni: Daughter of Manthara; a committed doctor and rakhi -sister to the four sons of Dashrath

Samichi: Police and protocol chief of Mithila

Shatrughan: Twin brother of Lakshman; son of Dashrath and Sumitra

Shurpanakha: Half-sister of Raavan

Sita : Adopted daughter of King Janak of Mithila; also the prime minister of Mithila; later married to Ram

Sumitra: Daughter of the king of Kashi; the third wife of Dashrath; mother of the twins Lakshman and Shatrughan

Vashishta: Raj guru, the royal priest of Ayodhya; teacher of the four princes

Vayuputras: The tribe left behind by Lord Rudra, the previous Mahadev