First book in the 'ORDER OF SEVEN KINGS' series.
Hey Everyone! I know how disappointed and upset you all were that my previous story got deleted accidentally. So I've decided to bring back the characters with a new plot.
'MAHADEVA RAAYALA'
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The next morning everyone heard the bell sound and walked in the direction of the pooja room to see Siva giving aarati to the Shiva lingam before walking out and showed them the aarati to take blessings from the god.
"I just wanted to pray. So, I took the initiative to do the pooja. If I did wrong forgive me your majesty" Siva politely said.
The King smiled and patted her shoulder saying "You don't need permission to pray to your God Siva it's fine" making her smile and nod.
"Your majesty the pooja is going to start soon" Suri informed the King making him nod and walked out followed by others.
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"Acha! Tell me Pallavi why are they doing Krishna pooja now? I mean there is no krishnashtami near" Gaurika asked.
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"It's a ritual for the pregnant women actually. So their homes would be filled with babies laughs and little Krishna's footsteps soon" Pallavi explained making Gaurika and Arun nod.
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"Then we don't need to attend pooja right. We're not married anyhow" Siva said no chanlantly.
"True. But you can pray for nice husband and future kids" The King explained making her pursue her lips.
"I don't understand why everyone wants to marry off their daughters soon so they can have babies and take care of them" Siva said with a hint of anger.
"Because a man is nothing without his woman. A woman comes into his life so he could be complete" The King explained making everyone look at him.
The car stopped infront of the temple making everyone get out and wash their feet at the wash area before entering the temple. The temple is completely built in marble including the Radhakrishna statue in the middle of the temple.
People were already present there and Poojari gaaru was setting up everything for pooja when everyone stood and greeted the King and both the Princes. The men are to sit at the back of the pooja while women sat in the front near the idols.
Pallavi handed the thambulam for the Radhakrishna statues before sitting in the front row along with Gaurika and Siva joining their hands as poojari gaaru started the pooja by pouring milk on the idol.
He along with his disciple dressed the idol before applying sindhuram in vaishnava style and putting flowers and started chanting mantras as the ladies showered the flower petals on the idol continuously.
After an hour of pooja the aarati was given to RadhaKrishna and poojari gaaru asked someone to sing a song making everyone look at each others faces as Pallavi started singing "O my lovely lalana...".
The song ended while everyone looked at Pallavi amused at her English lines in between making her awkwardly smile and took the aarati before showing it to everyone and the married ladies took blessings from their husbands.
Poojari gaaru gave threads to the unmarried girls for getting nice husbands making their mothers tie it to their wrists when Siva asked "Poojari gaaru shouldn't you give this threads to bachelors too I mean they should get nice wives too right?"
Everyone looked at her stupid but logical question as poojari gaaru explained "A wife always wants her husband to live a long life atleast for her sake so logically even if husband doesn't do any pooja he'll get a good wife" making Siva raise her eyebrow.
Siva and Gaurika looked at each other and muttered "Abboo..." and went back to help with the lunch arrangements.
