Book II ended with Shiva
and Kali reaching Panchavati tactfully crossing treacherous Dandak forest and
they take refuge in a school. The biggest reveal of the trilogy unravels when
they discover Brahspati alive and teaching students.
Book III- Shiva is elated
to see Brahspati at the Naga capital of Panchavati. Brahspati narrates the
truth behind explosion at mount Mandar and the ordeal related to soamras and
the ill effect it causes on people. Somras is the reason of depleting river Saraswathi
and the birth of Naga babies. Somras causes cell multiplication and genetic
mutation that leads to deformation and outgrowth. Shiva travels to hidden city
of Ujjain to meet Gopal the chief of Vasudev pandit. It is here he is made
aware of the Vayuputra Council an ancient tribe left by previous Mahadev lord
Rudra where they train members of the tribe as Neelkantha to oppress the evil whenever
it rises. And Shiva is also made aware of his genetic linage routing to the
sacred tribe and how his uncle has been training hm since childhood for this
role. A war on Meluha is declared and people are urged not to intake somras. The
loyalties are decided the allies changed and the battle strategies are drawn.
Shiva loses a battle and postpone the attack on Meluha and leave for Pariha to
seek forbidden Brahmastra to threaten the Meluhan’s for peace. With much persuasion and convincing the
vayuputra council that Shiva is the real Neelkantha they give him Pashupatiastra
that destroy a specific target rather than annihilating everything. In a bid to
assassinate Shiva a peace treaty is organized by Daksha which is attended by
Sati in Shiva’s absence and gets assassinated in confusion.
Though the book
disappointed me with its end. Immortals of Meluha and Secret of Naga built a
great prologue for the Third instalment yet Tripathi some how failed to capitalized
and conceptualized he end. There were few loose ends all over the 1st
two instalments and he did try and fix majority of it but doing so the charisma
faded. He tried to immortalize the legend but sought scientific reason for
every phenomenon and attribute nothing to supernatural possibility.
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