The story of my namesake
Savitri's Love - From The Maha-Bharata ( Originally Published 1939 ) Now, there was a king in India, whose name was Aswapati (As-wa-pah-tee), and his people loved him, for he gave help to all in need, and he served the shining gods in prayer and sacrifice. But he had no son or daughter in whom his name and line could live on, when the time came for him to die, and his heart was grieved, and he fasted oft, and said hymns to the shining gods, and burned offerings on their holy altar, and hoped they would grant him the gift he asked. When sixteen years had thus passed, his prayer was heard. In the red fire of the altar he beheld a Iady of fair Iook and ways, and she said to him: "Thy faith hath pleased me, 0 Raja, and if thou wilt say thy desire, it shall be given thee." "Goddess," replied the king, "my wish is to have a child to live after me." "The Lord of heaven," she said, "will grant thee what thou hast prayed." She was gone and t...