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YOu may BE My Tf HUSBAND BUT HE [ey HAD NO RIGHT TO LET You ee | eee o MUST HAVE Ye | : fA GANA OF My { OWN WHO WILL } OBEY ME Donor = a a SWE SPOKE TO HER FRIENDS ABOUT 1 Ee { YOU ARE RIGHT, none} OF THE GANAS CAN REALLY BE CALLED “OUR WNDINE GF THEM HAD Fi IDEA. DON'T YOLL CREATE |, Wi A GANA WHO WILL OWE SHE GATHERED THE SAFFRON PASTE. FROM HER OWN BODY AND CREATED A BOY. ! HOw ty STRONG HE (Looks! £5ab NEVER SEEN Hv) BEFORE oa ad! is- . [zo SHIVA'S ASTONISHMENT, THE “YOUTH T al BARRED HIS way. HALT! NO ONE ENTERS. WITHOUT My MOTHER'S PERMISSION, =a : FOOLISH BOY! DO , YOU KNOW WHO 1AM? MOVE OUT OF fay way a ENTER. MY OWN s Home!UT THE YOUTH ONLY RAISED HS (Oy | SHIVA TURNED 70 HS GANAS. HT SHIVA ONCE AGAIN. y WHO 1S THAT FOOL’? WHAT nw \ IS HE DOING THERE? THROW HIM QUT AND: > REPORT To ME. YOu SEEM TO NOU WILL RECEIVE / FROWN HERE,IF } FORGET THAT . ATASTEOF MY 4 YOu VALUE WALOUR. LIFE. a eeTHE YOUTH STOOD STILL FOR A MEANWHILE, INDOORS PARVATI HAD HEARD THE WHILE HE WAS PUZZLED PLEASE FIND OUT WHAT THAT LORD. WHAT j } NOISE 1S ALL SHOULD 1 D0?) | SHOULD | FIGHT THEM OR THEY ARE THREATENING Jp) YOUR SOM.PLEASE DON'T ALLOW 2 Oo wns . - a EM TO pone \ = . SHIVA 1S : : : AFTER ALL - - . oy i hit annealBUT WHY DID HE TRY TO FORCE HIS WAY IN ® LET WHAT MAS TO HAPPEN, HAPPEM SHE SENT THE FRIEND OUT ONCE AGAIN, z THE FRIEND CAME OUT, GENTLE Sik, YOUR MOTHER SAMS THAT YOU SHOULD NOT LET ANWONE ENTER. § { LAM THE SON OF PARVATI. |. YOU ARE THE GANAS OF SHIVA.YOU MUST CARRY OUT HIS ORDERS AMD |— HERS.Y MOTHER'S ORDERS, WEL: OME YOU,THE LEADERS OF SHiva’S HORDES,THE GEST FLED As FAST AS THEY COULD. ONCE AGMN TOOK AIG POST AT THE- HA! RUN, sf) SHALL NEVER FAIL Wty THIS MATTER HAS GONE TIO We FPR.THE BOY NIST BE DESTROYED. LEAD Your GANAS AND DEVAS TO WAR, VANQUISH THE \WWFUDENT UPSTART,THE DEVAS, LED BY INDRALAND THE GANAS L_UPON THE BOY FROM Ai +BY KARE DRECTIONS. HOW DARE THEY HARASSiCwar SHOULD) LET US GO}UNRERTURBED BY. THE SIGHT OF. SHIA, THE BOF ATTACKED AL THE-CIEP GODS) ONE BY ONE THEY FELL. | AS SANA WATCHED HIV THE SAME THOUGHT HAD STRUCK. | AMAZED, ‘ FISHING TOD, ME SPOKE TO SHIVA. HE IG INVINCIBLE, HE CAN ONLY BE KILLED BY CLINNING, DELLISION TO (MUST WATCH FOR FIGHT HIM,IF 42 AN OPPORTUNITY.US CONFER ALL OUR | IGTH ON THE YOUTH. EN EVEN VISHNU’S a! AYA WILL PROVE /] INEFF SCTUAL. ff BUT KALI AND DURGA [Wate THE ADDED GaReNETI OF] THE: TWO SHEETS, THE BOY SWING HIS CLUS AT VISHNL: SHIVA SAW HIS PEIGHT AND CHARGED WITH HIS TRIDENT,we BUT IT WAS Cla in TWO BY WISHES DISCES, BARYOA, CAUGHT IT AND PROIECTEO HiS MASTER , vi |[THEN AS HE oY PICKED UP Wis STAAP 7D SHINE ci HIND) BND. PGR 9 MOMENT ALLOY rie Stee S7aCD Till, THEIR G pan ON FE LIANT ERD. : Belin ;THEN THE DEVAS AND THE GANAS BECAME JLIBILAN. ALAS! WHAT HAVE “| a | DONE 2 HOW SHALL oe Pati SON WAS KILLED | FACE. PARVATI? HE "| BY UNFAIR MEANS. WAS CREATED BY ! FOR THIS THE HER.THAT MADE eHAVE MERCY ON US. WE SHALL ACCOMPLE ey SOM MUST REGAIN HIS LIFE AND ABLE STATUS AMONG YOU: THEY WENT TO SHIVA ANE: POT «. [G0- NORTH.BRING THE PARVATCS: CONDITIONS BEFOR: -| HEAD OF THE FIRST CREA- TURE THAT CROSSES Our PATH. FIT THAT HEAD TO THE BOY'S OR. THE SAKE OF AND HAPPINESS.7 THEY BROUGHT THE HEAD oy BACK AND FITTED 17 TO “J THE BODY OF THE BOY,THEN SHIVA PLACED HIS HAND ON THE 8O¥'S HEAD. EVEN AS A MERE BOY YOU SHOWED GREAT WALOUIR..YOU SHALL BE GAMESHR THE. PRESIDING OFFICER. OF ALL MY GANAS, “YOU SHALL BE WORTHY OF WORSHIP FOREVER. YOU SHALL ALSO BE CALLED VIGHNESHWARA, THE QUELLER OF OSSTACLES. SHIVA AND PARVAT! ONCE AGAIN BEGAN TO LIVE HAPPILY | IN THEIR ABODE AT MOUNT KAILAS, DELIGHTED BY THE PRESENCE OF THEIR TWO SONS .TO THIS DAY, BEFORE fp ANY VENTURE [5 UNDERTAKEN, IT 1S GANESHA WHO 1S | INVOKED AND WHOSE BLESSINGS ARE SOUGHT. a