#INKTOBER — Day 6 — Golden
Hanuman and Surya
An inspiring relationship
Inktober is a yearly challenge held in October. The challenge is to post one sketch for each day in October. My wife Durga is participating in this challenge. Her theme this year is Hanuman. I’m participating in my own challenge — I’m writing one article a day based on her sketch and the inktober prompt. Here are this year’s prompts.
Hanuman’s relationship with Surya is underrated in the Ramayana.
The paths of Hanuman and Surya crossed on more than one occasion. And each occasion was rather colorful. Which isn’t surprising — when Surya’s radiance and Hanuman’s brilliance come together, the interaction has to be dazzling.
An Unusual Fruit
Anjana finished feeding her child Hanuman, but Hanuman was still hungry.
Hanuman saw a fruit some distance away. He flew up to catch up to the tree. He realized He had underestimated the distance to the fruit and kept soaring up and up.
Hanuman kept flying up without realizing that the fruit was the Sun.
Meanwhile, Indra was watching this an was alarmed at some earthling approaching the Sun. Was this a nefarious person who had an ulterior motive to capture the Sun? Without…
