- Savitri was not kept away and was highly educated
- beautiful description of when she met eyes with her love. "And, as eyes gazed into eyes, across the narrow stream their souls, predestined from all eternity to complete each other, awakened"
- boy turns out to be prince of exiled king
- father doesn't want Savitri to marry the "penniless prince"
- king asks for advice and finds that he is actually a perfect suite EXCEPT he is destined to die in one year!!
- Servitor wants to marry him anyway even though that could mean the ruin for her father, the King's, line
- "Love like hers is heaven-sent"
- A year loving Satyaban is worth a lifetime of widowhood
- Satyaban is honorable. after the wedding, instead of living in the palace and accumulating the riches, he vows to return to his blind father in exile to support him.
- Savitri vows to accompany him
- Servitor took the character of a poor mans daughter, cooking and cleaning like she didn't grow up a princess in a palace
This is the perfect story for a premarital counseling session. They are desperate to get married but they know the road ahead will be extremely difficult. With death glooming in the near future, they love each other so much, Savitri loves Satyaban so much, that she is willing to marry him no matter what. Can't wait to write this story!!
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Bibliography: Nine Ideal Indian Women, Maharanee Sunity Devee, Reading Guide, Book
(Savitri begging for her lover's life. Found on Wikipedia from the Calcutta Art Studio)
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