The second Naga is Ganesh, who turns out to be Sati’s son from a previous marriage. Because she was born with an extra pair of hands, she was deemed to be a Naga. The first one is Kali, Queen of the Nagas, who turns out to be her twin sister. In the mean time, in Varanasi, Sati is on a discovery spree. She finds out that she is related to two of the Nagas. The reason is that the Nagas supply life-saving medicines to the Brangas every year, and unless Shiva can guarantee uninterrupted supply of the same they are not going to help him. He discovers that though the Brangas, too, believe in the legend of the Neelkanth and are delighted on his arrival, they are not going to reveal the whereabouts of the Nagas in a hurry. Since Sati has a baby (Kartik) while in Varanasi, Shiva leaves her behind in the holy city and travels with the rest of his entourage to the land of the Brangas. Shiva, Sati and their entourage decide to leave for Varanasi, which has a large settlement of Banglas Brangas, people from the eastern part of the country and the only people who have dealings with the Nagas. Yet again, the Naga escapes. By now Shiva is obsessed with hunting down the Nagas (an ostracised community of deformed beings with extraordinary skills, power and strength), and particularly that one specific Naga. The second book begins in Ayodhya with yet another skirmish between Shiva and Sati, and the Naga, who Shiva suspects was responsible for the death of his friend, Brihaspati. For more on the first book, you can read my review right here. It follows the journey of Shiva from his beginnings as a Tibetan tribal leader to that of an immigrant to Meluha (the area that we now know was the site of the great Indus Valley Civilization) to becoming aware of the extraordinary destiny that awaits him and his first attempts at fulfilling that destiny. The Immortals of Meluha is the first book in the series. The 3 books in the Trilogy trace the journey of Shiva from a human being to that of a God. The Trilogy is based on the premise that Shiva was not a mythical God, but an ordinary human being who became a God because of his karma.
The Secret of the Nagas (Westland, pp.396, Rs.295) is the second book in the Shiva Trilogy by Amish.
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