Week 12: Reading Notes A



Kubera: The Lord of Wealth

                                                                 Image Details: Kubera, Source: Wikimedia

In the beginning of the story, the sage Pulastya marries the daughter of the sage Trinabindu. The couple has a child named Vishrava. After Vishrava grows up, he marries the daughter of the sage Bharadwaja and have son known as Kubera. Kubera becomes the guardian of the world and later on in the story, Brahma makes Kubera guardian of the wealth. Vishrava advises Kubera to go live in Lanka. The foolish Malyavan, Sumali, and Mali challenge the gods. For fear of violence, the gods go to Vishnu for help. Vishnu leads an attack and kills Mail, which causes Malyavan and Sumali to retreat back to Lanka. However, Vishnu vows to destroy them anywhere on the earth, so they retreat back to the underworld. This allows for Kubera to live in Lanka and rule over the rakshakas. However Sumali still causes problems for Kubera by urging his grandson, Dashagriva to take Lanka back from Kubera. Although hesitant at first, Dashagriva demands that Kubera to return Lanka back to Sumali to which Kubera agrees to. Kubera escapes to the Himalayas and builds the city of Alakapuri.

Now with Lanka in his possession, Dashagriva lead the rakshakas into war against the three worlds. Kubera asks Dashagriva to stop his attacks which infuriates Dashagriva. He decides to attack Alakapuri which proves to be successful. Kubera duels with Dashagriva and Dashagriva steals Kubera’s weapon. After several years, Rama builds a bridge towards Lanka and defeat Dashagriva known as Ravana. Rama kills Ravana and makes his brother the king of Lanka. Rama also returns to stolen back to Kubera.

This was a very interesting story as not only does this story describe the origin of Kubera, but it also includes the origin of Ravana who is known as the villain in the Ramayana. In the comic book though, there isn’t much about Kubera, but more stories about other characters who have affected Lanka. I wish that there were some more detail about Kubera, but I enjoyed the reading overall.

Bibliography: Amar Chitra Katha, “Kubera: The Lordof Wealth, Volume 839.

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