Illustration: Sanjhiya Mayekar According to the Shanti Parva and Vishnu Parva, one day when Shiva’s father-in-law, Dak ...

The serpent pursues Ra as the sun god pulls the burning sundisc across ... match the horror of Hinduism’s Rahu, one of the Asura, a kind of demon. Originally known as Svarbhānu, the wrathful ...