“Out on you! Be off!"

(Creation of Women and birth of a family based on Sanskrit Myths.)

In the beginning when Twashtri came to the creation of women, he found that he had exhausted materials in the making of man, and that no solid elements were left.  In this dilemma, after profound mediation, he did as follows:

The rotundity of the moon, and the curves of creepers,
The clinging of the tendrils, and the trembling of grass,
Slenderness of the reed, and the bloom of flowers,
The lightness of leaves and the tapering of the elephant’s trunk,
The glances of deer and the clustering of rows of bees,
The joyous gaiety of sunbeams and the weeping of clouds,
The fickleness’ of winds and the timidity of the hare,
The vanity of the peacock and softness of the parrot’s bosom,
The hardness of adamant and the sweetness of honey,
The cruelty of tiger and the warm glow of fire,
The coldness of snow and the chattering of jays,
The cooing of the Kokila and the hypocrisy of the crane and The fidelity of the Chakrawaka;
And compounding all these together he made woman and gave her to man.

But after one week, man came to him and said, “Lord, this creature that you have given to me makes my life miserable and so I have come to give her back again, as I cannot live with her”.

So Twashtri said, “Very Well” and he took her back.

Then after another week man came again to him and said, “Lord, I find that my life is very lonely, since I gave you back that creature, I remember how she used to dance and sing to me, and look at me out of the corner of her eye, and play with me. Her laughter was music and she was beautiful to look at and soft to touch. So give her back to me again”.

So Twashtri said, “Very Well” and gave her back again

But only after 3 days, man came back to him again and said, “Lord, I know not how it is, but after all I have come to the conclusion that she is more of trouble than a pleasure to me, so please take her back again”

But Twashtri said, “Out on you! Be off! I will have no more of this. You must manage how you can.

The man said. “But I cannot live with her.” And Twashtri replied: “Neither could you live without her”. And he turned his back on man.

The man said “What to be? For I cannot live either with her or without her”

Thus a family was born.