Epic Puranic Mythology Novel
Budget: ₹12,500 – ₹37,500 INR
Here it is.
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**PROJECT TITLE**
Original Indian Mythological Fiction — A New Goddess — Novel / Novella
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**What I'm commissioning**
A full-length original mythological novel — not a retelling of existing Purāṇic episodes but a new story, built with the weight and architecture of the Purāṇas. The narrative centers on a new goddess, fully conceived, whose story has the scale of the epics and the intimacy of the best devotional literature.
The tone should feel like Amish Tripathi at his most epic and Devdutt Pattanaik at his most precise — cinematic, elevated, and genuinely sacred.
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**The One Line**
A thousand-year-old asura lord spends his entire existence trying to destroy his child — dies at the hands of the child's aunt — gets trapped in her ankle jewelry alongside every assassin he ever sent — and is carried through her entire life until the greatest enemy becomes the greatest devotee.
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**The Story**
Tarunaksha is an asura lord with a divine boon from Brahma making him nearly impossible to kill. When a prophecy declares his own child will destroy him, he begins dispatching demons — Kalakoota, Dhumraksha, Karkodara, Andhakasura his own brother, seventeen in all — toward the infant.
He does not know his wife has already run to her elder twin sister and begged at her feet. Give him chances. Give him time.
The aunt agrees to eighteen. Every demon Tarunaksha sends is intercepted and bound into a skull bead at her ankle. The wife watches the ankle fill in silence, knowing she is watching her own mercy being spent. Tarunaksha never connects the disappearances to his sister-in-law. He never thinks of her at all — which is the most dangerous thing he ever does.
On the eighteenth mistake he reaches for his son's throat in open court. The wife steps aside. The aunt walks to the citadel. What follows is the battle, the threshold, the confession, and the completion — the greatest enemy arriving, bead by bead over a lifetime of carrying, at the feet of the woman his wife ran to in the dark.
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**Tone and Scale**
Epic in battle. Intimate in carrying. Both simultaneously where the story demands it. The scale of the Mahābhārata. The devotional depth of the Devī Bhāgavata Purāṇa. Clean modern English throughout, with Sanskrit terms preserved and lightly glossed where needed.
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**How We Will Work**
First — A one-page synopsis aligning on theme, central conflict, and ending.
Second — A full chapter outline across 26 chapters and 8 parts, identifying where Purāṇic conventions are being followed and where creative liberties are being taken.
Third — The full manuscript. 60 to 80l words. Delivered in MS Word, proofread and publication-ready.
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**What Will Win You This Job**
Demonstrated knowledge of the Purāṇic tradition — specifically the conventions of boon-granting, asura lordship, divine prophecy, and the theology of the Devī. Cite the texts you would draw on.
Epic prose with genuine sacred register — not archaic, not casual. The voice that suits divine characters speaking as divine characters.
An understanding that this story is not only a narrative. It is a devotional object. The goddess at its center should feel, by the final pages, like someone the reader wants to return to.
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**Acceptance Criteria**
Consistency with Purāṇic logic and cosmology. Creative additions welcome. Contradictions of core lore are not.
A through-line that carries the reader from the prophecy to the completion without losing momentum across any of its eight parts.
Proofread, publication-ready text. No placeholders. No unresolved threads.
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**Budget / Timeline**
Open to discussion based on experience with the genre and demonstrated knowledge of the tradition.
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---
**PROJECT TITLE**
Original Indian Mythological Fiction — A New Goddess — Novel / Novella
---
**What I'm commissioning**
A full-length original mythological novel — not a retelling of existing Purāṇic episodes but a new story, built with the weight and architecture of the Purāṇas. The narrative centers on a new goddess, fully conceived, whose story has the scale of the epics and the intimacy of the best devotional literature.
The tone should feel like Amish Tripathi at his most epic and Devdutt Pattanaik at his most precise — cinematic, elevated, and genuinely sacred.
---
**The One Line**
A thousand-year-old asura lord spends his entire existence trying to destroy his child — dies at the hands of the child's aunt — gets trapped in her ankle jewelry alongside every assassin he ever sent — and is carried through her entire life until the greatest enemy becomes the greatest devotee.
---
**The Story**
Tarunaksha is an asura lord with a divine boon from Brahma making him nearly impossible to kill. When a prophecy declares his own child will destroy him, he begins dispatching demons — Kalakoota, Dhumraksha, Karkodara, Andhakasura his own brother, seventeen in all — toward the infant.
He does not know his wife has already run to her elder twin sister and begged at her feet. Give him chances. Give him time.
The aunt agrees to eighteen. Every demon Tarunaksha sends is intercepted and bound into a skull bead at her ankle. The wife watches the ankle fill in silence, knowing she is watching her own mercy being spent. Tarunaksha never connects the disappearances to his sister-in-law. He never thinks of her at all — which is the most dangerous thing he ever does.
On the eighteenth mistake he reaches for his son's throat in open court. The wife steps aside. The aunt walks to the citadel. What follows is the battle, the threshold, the confession, and the completion — the greatest enemy arriving, bead by bead over a lifetime of carrying, at the feet of the woman his wife ran to in the dark.
---
**Tone and Scale**
Epic in battle. Intimate in carrying. Both simultaneously where the story demands it. The scale of the Mahābhārata. The devotional depth of the Devī Bhāgavata Purāṇa. Clean modern English throughout, with Sanskrit terms preserved and lightly glossed where needed.
---
**How We Will Work**
First — A one-page synopsis aligning on theme, central conflict, and ending.
Second — A full chapter outline across 26 chapters and 8 parts, identifying where Purāṇic conventions are being followed and where creative liberties are being taken.
Third — The full manuscript. 60 to 80l words. Delivered in MS Word, proofread and publication-ready.
---
**What Will Win You This Job**
Demonstrated knowledge of the Purāṇic tradition — specifically the conventions of boon-granting, asura lordship, divine prophecy, and the theology of the Devī. Cite the texts you would draw on.
Epic prose with genuine sacred register — not archaic, not casual. The voice that suits divine characters speaking as divine characters.
An understanding that this story is not only a narrative. It is a devotional object. The goddess at its center should feel, by the final pages, like someone the reader wants to return to.
---
**Acceptance Criteria**
Consistency with Purāṇic logic and cosmology. Creative additions welcome. Contradictions of core lore are not.
A through-line that carries the reader from the prophecy to the completion without losing momentum across any of its eight parts.
Proofread, publication-ready text. No placeholders. No unresolved threads.
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**Budget / Timeline**
Open to discussion based on experience with the genre and demonstrated knowledge of the tradition.
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