"IMMORTAL" - A Martial Arts Stage Play by Kalari Academy

THE SAPTARISHIS ARE A GROUP OF 7 SAGES IN HINDU MYTHOLOGY BEILIEVED TO HAVE BEEN BORN FROM THE MIND OF LORD BRAHMA. ONE OF THESE SAGES, BHRIGU, WAS BLESSED WITH 6 SONS. AMONG BHRIGU'S SONS WAS RICHIKA, A SAGE RENOWNED FOR HIS DEVOTION TO THE GODS AND HIS KNOWLEDGE OF THE VEDAS. RICHIKA MARRIED SATYAVATI, A PRINCESS WHO DESIRED A CHILD OF HER OWN AND WISHED FOR HER MOTHER TO HAVE ONE AS WELL. RICHIKA, WITH HIS DIVINE WISDOM, PREPARED 2 BOWLS OF RICE PUDDING, EACH INFUSED WITH A SPECIFIC ENERGY THAT WOULD INFLUENCE THE NATURE OF THE CHILD BORN. ONE BOWL WAS INTENDED TO GRANT THE CHILD A LIFE OF SPIRITUALITY AND. WISDOM, WHILE THE OTHER WOULD BESTOW UPON THEM THE QUALITIESOF A POWERFUL WARRIOR, SATYAVATI AND HER MOTHER, HOWEVER, WERE UNABLE TO RESIST THE TEMPTATION TO SWITCH BOWLS, DRIVEN BY THEIR DESIRES. WHEN RICHIKA DISCOVERED THE SWITCH, HE GRANTED SATYAVATI'S REQUEST, ENSURING THAT HER GRANDSON, RAMA, RATHER THAN HER SON JAMADAGNI, WOULD POSSESS THE WARRIOR'S SPIRIT THUS, THE SEEDS OF DESTINY WERE SOWN. KAUSHIKA, THE SON OF THE QUEEN, WOULD BECOMETHE RENOWNED SAGE VISHVAMITRA. BUT FATE HAD ANOTHER TWIST IN STORE. JAMADAGNI, A M AN OF PEACE, WAS FORCED TO CONFRONT KING KARTAVIRYA ARJUNA (A POWERFUL KSHATRIYA RULER AND NEMESIS OF A YOUNG RAVANA OF LANKA). THE CONFLICT OVER JAMADAGNI'S PRIZED POSSESSION, THE DIVINE COW SURABHI, WOULD LEAD TO A TRAGIC OUTCOME, SETTING THE STAGE FOR A LEGENDARY TALE OF VENGEANCE.