06-09-2004, 10:23 AM
There is the tale of Hindu-Muslim love story that Indi secularvadi janta relish between Pathan Bahadur and Rupmati, and the latter killed herself when some Mughal wanted her (at least this is the romantic story I was told).
I was told another parallel story involving only Hindu from Kalhana when I was a kid, but I forget the details of the characters (could look up later). There was another similar Gujarati one.
About Meera it depends on whether you are a Vaishnava bhakta or a rational observer. The merging in to Krishna could be an euphemism for suicide to the latter. Many times moksh and death are interchangeably used <!--emo&
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I was told another parallel story involving only Hindu from Kalhana when I was a kid, but I forget the details of the characters (could look up later). There was another similar Gujarati one.
About Meera it depends on whether you are a Vaishnava bhakta or a rational observer. The merging in to Krishna could be an euphemism for suicide to the latter. Many times moksh and death are interchangeably used <!--emo&
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