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Tales of the Gods
He did not get up when she walked in. Then, with the assembly of all the worlds listening, he explained why.
It was the invitations that did it. It was not a battle, not a boon, not a curse. It was a list of names, and two that were left off it.
Daksha was a Prajapati, a son of Brahma, and by the standards of the cosmos an establishment figure of the highest order. He performed the great sacrifices. He held the correct opinions. He had a large number of daughters and had married them off carefully, and one of them, Sati, had ruined the pattern by choosing Shiva.
The rest of this story, read aloud, and a new one every day.