From:Uttara
To: Abhimanyu
Rajkumar ji,
It has been two days since you left for the war.
I found this stack of papers in your chamber today.
I promise I was not snooping around, I was just telling the candles there that they need to ready themselves for your sweet welcome, I was asking the breeze through the windows of your state, I was taking in the scent of our love, the times spent together.
I wonder if you miss me too, I wonder if you miss our child.
He has been fidgeting more since you left, the gentle kicks and rolls remind me of you all the time.
Do you remember the first time I cooked for you? You said that kheer and my presence in your dreams taste the same. Dreams, oh Aryaputra! Do you know what mine taste like?
They taste like milk and smoke, sound like yearning and hurt like you.
Yes you have hurt me, you have hurt me by disunion, insulted me by deeming me unfit for the battlegrounds.
I Uttara, the daughter of king Virat, daughter in law of the valorous Arjun and the wife of Prince Abhimanyu I am unfit for the battleground?
The child in my womb, the envisioned mahayoddha cannot be kept away from the greatest Dharmyuddh.
And so, I am coming to Kurukshetra.
Wait for me there, Rajkumar ji, we will meet our child together.
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Context- Abhimanyu is a warrior from the ancient Hindu epic Mahabharata. He was the son of Arjuna, the third of the Pandavas and the hero of the epic, and Subhadra, the younger sister of the revered Hindu deity Krishna.
He died in the Mahabharata war, before the birth of his child.
Uttarā is a princess in the Mahabharata, she is described to be the daughter of Queen Sudeshna and King Virata, at whose court the Pandavas spent a year in concealment during their exile.
Rajkumar ji- Prince
Kheer- a sweet dish, a type of wet pudding popular in India
Aryaputra-used by all women in their youth to address their husband
Mahayoddha- a great warrior
Dharmyuddh-war in defence of righteousness
Kurukshetra-setting of the Hindu epic poem the Mahabharata.