Reading Notes: Sacred Cow, Rishyasringa, Sakuntala (A)

•  What if instead of Visvamitra having to travel to find someone to fight there was a neighboring kingdom that wanted to fight him for some strange reason?
• I wonder what would have happened if the king left when he wanted instead of giving in to the sage's demands that he stay?
• Wow I was not expecting Sabala to provide an army that large! It'd be interesting to tie Sabala into the Pandu story somehow. 
• So sad all his sons turned to ash! What if he bargained with the sage that he would leave them alone forever if Sabala brought back his sons?
• What if Visvamitra was the Queen. I wonder if she would have acted out so wildly to make Sabala hers?
• It'd be interesting to see through the eyes of the woman who is trying to convince King Visvamitra to enjoy life and stop living it so harshly.
• what if instead of sending down women to Visvamitra they sent men? Maybe one of his deceased sons? 

(Sabala and her loving owner)

• The way that Rishyasringa grew up reminded me of Tarzan! That'd be an interesting story!
• What if instead of being able to curse people he made them switch bodies? Or put them in random places of the earth?
• What if Rishyasringa was mute? after all he had never talked or interacted with anyone other than his father. 
• What if a woman was sent to talk to the father and was able to warm his heart from all that hatred?

(Rishyasringa's first encounter with women)

Bibliography: The Indian Story Book- Story VII Sabala, The Sacred Cow and Story IX The Great Drought about Rishyashringa