This concise book attempts to provide us with an insight into this new epic that narrates to us the beginning of creation, as well as the ever repeating complete human cycle lasting 26,000 years covering the Golden, the Silver, the Bronze and the Iron Ages or the Satya, the Treta, Dwapara and the Kali Yugas. Devayana tells us that mankind will very soon regain its inherent spirituality as we are now at the threshhold of the Golden Age.

We come to know from Brahma, Vishnu and Maheshwara the unfolding of events through the Four Ages as they remain ever present. They are the mouthpiece of this narration and we see the events happening in the world through their perspective. They are the chorus who describe the background of the events taking place in front of us. We see heroic and demonic characters of brilliant stature striding across the wide panaroma of the epic. We become part of the cataclysmical conficts beteen the Good and the Evil during the aeons when the Gods and the Titans confronted each other. The heroic figures of yore stride across the wide canvass of the epic and we come to know about the historical events from a different viewpoint. Also we come to know about the events that are still to come in the future All the wonderful stories that our parents and grandparents narrated to us suddenly come to life as we see them really happening before us. For the first time we have a consecutive and comprehensive story of the history of humanity without an interruption.

I am more than convinced that no synopsis can really do justice to the original Devayana. One would require a much larger treatise to elucidate the beauty of the epic. However, a much deeper analysis will defeat its own purpose as modern readers, except researchers, have little time. For the first time we have in one epic the details of events that have occupied humanity. With this short synopsis, we hope to draw the attention of interested researchers, seekers of Truth, and lovers of literature to this epic. We earnestly wish to stimulate their curiosity as its close study will surely enrich them.

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