The small sparrow great qualities important part of environmental cycle!
If we talk about mythology, then in texts like Udyog Parva of Mahabharata and Devi Bhagwat Purana, there is a story of Indra's struggle with Tvashta. Tvashta's wife was Virochana (or Rechana) who was the daughter of Prahlad, that is, she belonged to the Asura clan. Their son was Trishira, whose name was due to his having three heads. With one head, he used to drink Soma, with the second he used to drink Sura and with the third he used to eat food. With the permission of his mother, he had accepted to be the priest of the Asuras, so indra killed him with a thunderbolt and got his three heads cut off by a carpenter. According to the stories, Kapinjal bird was born from his Veda-reading head, sparrow from the Sura-drinking head and partridge bird from the food-eating head.
The big story of a small sparrow
This unique story of the birth of the sparrow can also be linked to the prohibition of alcohol in bihar and the birth of the sparrow, considered the state bird of bihar, from the head of Trishira who used to drink alcohol. This Trishira is also known as Vishwaroop and the head-cutting Taksh (carpenter) was lured by indra to offer the head of an animal in the yagya, this story also comes in Devi Bhagwat. Whatever it may be, the sparrow has been getting a place in literature for a long time because it is one of the important birds for agriculture. It eats the insects found in the fields, due to which it is a friend bird for the farmer.
In the stories of modern times also, a famous story named “Sparrows” was written by K.A. Abbas, which many people must have read. This is the story of an angry man named Rahim Khan, whom his father did not allow to choose marriage and work of his choice. He kept taking out his anger on his wife and children throughout his life. In the end, when his family has left him, this is the story of how he takes care of the sparrow's children who have made a nest on the roof of his house. In comparison to all this, if we look at china, we will see the opposite happening there. As soon as china was brought under leftist dictatorship, Mao Tse Tung started working on the plan of "The Great Leap Forward". His intention was to somehow take the backward, disease-ridden china on the path of progress. For this, he started trying to gain control over nature. During this period, not only the economic and social condition of china but also in areas like health and education was very bad.
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