Take it easy, Urvasi!

>>Urvasi would only consume ghee that was offered to the sacrificial fire (don't ask me how she stayed slim on a diet like that)
>>Pururavas was to guard Urvasi's two rams, which she claimed were like children to her (why should a king stoop to guarding rams? Hey Ram!)
>>Except while making love, Urvasi should never see Pururavas naked (And you though that ancient mythology was only about pious stories?)

Of course, this went on fine for a while, but the devas of heaven wanted Urvasi back (it has been reliably learnt that Indra feels rather sad when the gang of fouru00e2u0080u0094Urvasi, Menka, Rambha and Tillottama are missing. If you think that dancing girls during IPL matches are new, well Indra has had them all along the dancing girls, not the IPL). So, they hatched a low plot to get Urvasi back (and you thought that only our politicians can stoop so low?)

So, one fine night, after Pururavas and Urvasi were lying in bed after an intense bout of lovemaking, some of the devas came and stole the rams. Pururavas would have followed and fought manfully, but since he was naked, he couldn't rise to the occasion (pun unintended). This irked Urvasi, who hurled nasty words at him (yes, wives used to harangue husbands even in those days) and so he chased the devas in the nude.

Contract revoked

The devas pretended to be scared and left the rams and ran away. When Pururavas picked them up and approached Urvasi, the wily devas set fire to a stack of hay nearby and this meant that Urvasi saw Pururavas in the nude while they were not making love. And so she left him.

Pururavas however caught up with her later and after discussing their lives together with a strong focus on their amorous pursuits, which would have left Casanova feeling like a nice, innocent school kid Pururavas, knowing that Urvasi would never come back, said to her, 'Give me my Ayus'.

Here, note the double pun ayus means life, and it is also the name of their son. Pururavas made this pun because he hails from the Chandra Vamsam and his ancestors include Budha (Mercury, who rules intelligence and more importantly, in this context, humour).

Ok, so I have taken a long time to tell you people that Budha is associated with humour and double entendres. And this is the link between our resident editor, who writes 'Ayyo Rama' every day, and Ayusu00e2u0080u0094humour.

So, now, let's look at his chart. Why did Ram have a career in writing? It is because Sani the lord of the 3rd house, which rules written communications, aspects Budha, the lord of the 10th house of careers. And since Budha is responsible for humour, Ram writes Ayyo Rama.

Seriously funny

Now, you may want to ask me why didn't Ram become a pure comedy writer? Why did he become an editor, who has to also write a lot of serious stuff? One reason could be because, in his chart, Budha is in Anuradha, a star owned by Sani. Sani is an extremely serious graha and is associated with stuff like discipline, patience, persistence, responsibility, and seriousness, among others stuff that editors need to possess (especially the patience part when they are dealing with writers like me who take three months to write stories like this one).



So, now you know why Ram is an editor and a person who writes humorous stuff.

Now, there is only one thing to address, the question I asked in the beginningu00e2u0080u0094and if you still want to ask me the question, then you probably need to read this article again!

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