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

Few eclipse myths can match the horror of Hinduism’s Rahu, one of the Asura, a kind of demon. Originally known as Svarbhānu, the wrathful demigod sought to live forever by drinking Amrita ...