Week 13 story : The tricky asura and the monkey-god of India

Once upon a time, Hanuman was relaxing in the forest with his fellow tribe of monkeys. Hanuman's followers respected him and considered Hanuman as their god since he was the son of Vayu, the wind god. A tricky asura wondered into the forest one day and noticed the tribe of monkeys. He was hungry but he couldn't out right attack the monkeys, since Hanuman was around them all the time. Asura decided to use his head instead of his strength this time to fool the monkeys. The demon disguised himself as a wounded deer near the camp of the monkeys. Hanuman noticed the wounded deer and approached the deer with the other monkeys. "Are you okay?" asked Hanuman. Deer told Hanuman that he will be fine as long as he can rest here for couple of days.  Hanuman felt bad for the deer, so Hanuman came where the deer was resting often to provide the deer with water and food. Other monkeys also followed Hanuman to care for the wounded deer. Every time the monkeys headed back to their home, the asura caught and ate the last monkey. Realizing that he was missing some of his followers, Hanuman told the monkeys that he will leave last this time. Hanuman transformed himself as a regular looking monkey and stayed until all the other monkeys left to go home. The deer soon turned into the asura and attacked transformed Hanuman. Hanuman transformed back into his real self and defended against the tricky asura. "You filthy demon! you will not leave here alive!" said Hanuman as he struck the asura with his mace, Gada. The asura fell with one strike from Hanuman. Hanuman went back to the tribes of monkeys and they celebrated the death of the tricky asura. As they were celebrating the victory of Hanuman, a messenger of Sugriva came along requesting Hanuman's presence. Hanuman asked the messenger what the issue was. The messenger told Hanuman that two unknown armed human was approaching the forest and that Sugriva has requested Hanuman to check them out, making sure that they are not a threat to Sugriva. Hanuman accepted the order and headed into the forest.

Hanuman meeting Rama

Author's Note: This story is based on the tricky wolf and the rats from the Jataka tales. Basic story is same except the asura is the tricky wolf and the pack of monkeys is the rats. I added the messenger part at the end to connect the story about how Hanuman got the orders to investigate Rama and his brother from Sugriva.

Bibliography: More Jataka Tales: The tricky wolf and the rats
                         Ramayana

Comments

  1. UnknownApril 23, 2018 at 12:19 PM

    Hi, Tim! I really enjoyed reading your story! It was very informative and I appreciate that. It is easy to follow. I think something that your story could benefit from is imagery and description. Your small use of dialogue was so nice to break up the exposition. Maybe use more of this? Thank you for sharing and best of luck!

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  2. UnknownApril 25, 2018 at 9:13 PM

    Hey, Tim! I like the way you merged two traditions, the Jataka tales and the Ramayana, into one story. You might consider working in other parts of the Ramayana earlier in the story to let the reader know that your story is taking place in that setting because until I read your author's note I didn't know that the messenger was talking about Rama and Lakshmana.

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