THE MIRACLES OF PURAN BHAGAT
SUMMARY
SUMMARY
The
Miracle of Purun Bhagat' (The Second Jungle Book), was one of the most explicit
attempts Kipling made to understand the relationship between the two worlds,
free of the racial meaning implied in the opposition of East and West. But it
achieves its impressive artistic effect by a fairy-tale perfection. For it
deals with a man who leaves the life into which he was born and enters upon a
new and challenging existence. Like Mowgli, Purun Bhagat is searching for the
world to which he truly belongs, and it is his discovery of that world that is
the old man's miracle.
"The Miracle of Purun Bhagat" is
the story an able administrator, Sir Purun Das, who as Prime Minister of a
progressive princely state of India, builds roads, schools and hospitals in the
state and becomes a favourite of the British. But when the time comes, he
renounces the material world and becomes a wandering mendicant, finally
settling down in a temple on a hill in the Himalayas. The people of the village
down the slope call him ‘Bhagat’ and take care of his meagre needs of food,
water, etc. One night, a huge landslide brings the hillside rumbling down the
slope, and the ‘Bhagat’ once again becomes a man of action and leads the entire
population of the village down the slope and then up the adjoining hill, safe
from The landslide.
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