Introduction:
Story 1
1. Narrator 1smriti: Once there was a sage named Shilada. He
wanted a special child. He prayed and worshipped lord
Shiva for thousand years. One day as he was ploughing his
field:
2. Shilada: Oh lord Shiva ! Please bless me! I want a virtuous,
brave and intelligent child. What is this? The baby’s body is
covered with diamond armour. His face was is bright as
sun. Whose child is this?
3. Deva (Arulmozhi): Sage this is lord Shiva’s boon for you.
“TAKE THE CHILD AND BRING HIM UP WELL” . Name him
Nandi. He will be a great devotee of lord Shiva.
4. Narrator 2(aarush): One day 2 sages Mitra and Varuna
came to sage Shilada ashram. Nandi took good care of
them and pleased them.
5. Sage Mitra : We are very happy Nandi , be good and serve
your father well. You are a good child.
6. Sage Varuna : But , I see that you have a short life. Don’t
worry . Pray lord Shiva. He will bless you with a long life.
7. Nandi( mitra): om nama shivay(3) .Oh lord! I am blessed to
have seen you. I need nothing more in life . Lord Shiva, I
wish to be with you always. I don’t want anything more in
life.
8. Shiva (vishwanath): Nandi I’m very pleased with your
devotion. Take this bell necklace. From now on you will be
half man and half bull. You will be the head of Ganas and
the guardian of Kailsa. From today you will live in Kailasa
with me.
Story 2
9. Shiva (Sai Krishna): Nandi , Parvathy and I are playing a
Dice game. We need an umpire to judge the game. You be
the umpire.
10. Narrator 4(anirudh) : However Nandi due to his love
and devotion ; declared Lord Shiva as winner and said that
Devi Parvathy has lost the game. Devi Parvathy became
very angry and punished Nandi.
11. Parvathy (samanvitah): Nandi as you are an umpire
you had to be impartial. But you wrongly declared Lord
Shiva to be winner. I punish you. You will have a dreadful
disease. But I see that you have done it out of your love and
devotion to lord Shiva. If you want to come out of this
punishment, pray and offer Ganesha your favourite food.
12. Nandi(kannan) : Oh lord Ganesha , Help me. I did all
this out of love for my lord Shiva. Kindly free me from this
disease. I offer you my favourite food – green grass. Please
free me from this disease.
13. Ganesha ( skandaguru) : I’m happy with your devotion.
You have offered your favourite food to me. I am very
pleased. You are free from this disease. From today
onwards people will also offer me grass along with my
favourite modak.
Story 3
14. Narrator 5 (anvi): When devas and asuras were
churning ocean, along with the amrutam, halahala also
came. Everyone was scared what would happen. But lord
Shiva drank the halala and saved the world. All devas
thanked and praised lord shiva for his generosity and
kindness.
15. Nandi:(kannan) My lord Shiva is very happy. Whenever
he’s happy he will do this tandava dance. Lord ,I will play
mridangam for you and you can dance between my horns.
16.
Shiva(sai adarsh) : Nandi I’m pleased with your love
and devotion. But due to drinking halahala poison I’m
unable to meditate peacefully. From now on you will
always sit in front of me and blow air on my throat to ease
the burning. I also grant you the boon that whoever wishes
to share something with me, they have to tell it in your
ears. After my meditation you can let me know their
wishes.
17. Narrator 7 (sai vishwajit): This is the reason that all
Shiva temples have a statue of Nandi in front of the Idol.
Today also whenever people go to Shiva temple they will
tell their wishes and desires in Nandi’s ears.
It is also believed that If you keep your thumb and index
finger on Nandi’s horns and see through them, we can see
lord Shiva dancing between Nandi’s horn.
Story 4:
18. Narrator 8(tanish): One day people came to lord Shiva
to seek guidance on how best to lead lives. Lord Shiva was
meditating and asked Nandi to deliver the message to
them.
19. Shiva(gitarsan): Nandi go to those people and inform
them that to lead a happy and virtuous life, they have to
take bath 3 times and eat food only one time a day.
20. Nandi(sashvath) : okay my lord. Eat 1 time – take bath
3 times… eat 1 time take bath 3 times…oh what was that? I
forgot…. hmmmm. Yes! Eat 3 times take bath 1 time….
Everyone listen my lord has told that for leading a happy
life you should eat 3 times and take bath 1 time. If you do
so there won’t be any troubles in your life.
21. Narrator 9(vamakshi): The people all over the world
started following this. Everyone started eating 3 times a
day and taking bath 1 time a day. However soon the food
reserves of the world got over. People came back to lord
+Shiva for solution.
22. Shiva (gitarsan): Nandi , due to your mistake the world
is facing shortage of food. So from this day onwards you
have to go to earth and help people plough their land and
grow food.
23. Narrator 10 ( barri mohit): from that day onwards,
bulls have been used for ploughing fields by farmers. This is
how the fierce bulls came to be domesticated.