Question

are stories narrated by mara true ? true write article to prove your point with reference to the stories narrated by mara

Answer 1

Answer:

Mara has many fantastic stories about the miraculous healing power of the medicinal creeper. One such story is about Mara going to the forest to bring bamboo shoots home and accidentally cutting the artery of his hand while cutting bamboo shoots. Mara told the author that the wound was bandaged after some leaf brought by someone had been placed over it. Mara had then gone to a white man at Hulihindalu for proper treatment. But, when the white man opened the bandage, there was not even the sign of the wound. If this narration sounds improbable, another incident that Mara narrates goes beyond all boundaries of reason. Mara told the author that a barking deer which had been killed and divided by him and his friends, transformed into a live buck and ran out of the house when the packet made out of the special leaves was opened. Mara added that his wife, without knowing the value of the leaves, threw them into the fire. It is easier to believe the first story rather than the second because in the first story Mara talks about the healing power of a plant, and the miraculous effects of herbs is a generally accepted idea. However, the idea of a dead deer which has been skinned, cleaned and divided and then wrapped in leaves becoming alive on the packet being opened is next to impossible. So the question arises whether Mara was lying. If we defend Mara and argue that Mara had no reason to lie, then the only possibility is that Mara and his friends hunted a deer, brought it home assuming that it was dead and when released from the bundle, the deer, which was not really dead, ran away.

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