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The Great Epics
They killed him three times. The third time they burned him, mixed the ash into wine, and gave it to his own teacher to drink.
The war had settled into a pattern the gods could not break, and the reason was a single piece of knowledge held by one man.
Shukracharya was the guru of the asuras, and he possessed the Sanjivani vidya, the science of bringing the dead back to life. So the asuras fought without any real cost: when they fell they were raised, and came back the next morning. The gods, when they fell, stayed down.
The rest of this story, read aloud, and a new one every day.