The Secret of the Nagas by Amish Tripathi

The Secret of the Nagas by Amish Tripathi
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Another classic by Amish Tripathi. The author continues in the same vein as in the first book and manages to keep one glued to the book till the end.

The secret of the Nagas open up in this book. Shiva travels to Kashi from Ayodhya along with the crown prince of Ayodhya who becomes another loyal follower of Shiva.

At Ayodhya Shiva's entourage encounters the rich Brangas who are from what is modern day Bengal and Bangladesh. It comes out that the Brangas are in touch with Nagas who supply them a medicine to coutner the disease that plagues the Brangas year after year.

The citizen's of Kashi hear about the sacrifice of a peacock by the Brangas and they are about to attack their colony. Shiva's intervenes and asks his general to go and pacify the crowd by attacking the Brangas themselves. They find that Brangas have truly sacrificed as peacock, but only to save their children for whom the blood of the peacock is required for preventing the plague that strikes them. The head of the Brangas gives a medicine which is applied over Sati's stomach before she delivers and Ayurvati sings glory of the medicine. She also says that the medicine will be available only from the land of Nagas.

Shiva recruits the help of the local Branga leader and persuades him to lead to Branga from where he plans to go to the land of Nagas.

Soon a son, Karthik, is born to Shiva and a thrilled Shiva sets off to Branga land. After spending some time they come back.

Revealing anything more will kill the joy of reading the book.

All in all a very well written and presented book.

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