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Abhitara | A Mahabharat Story by GildedLotusInk
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❝the stars had always known that some loves are given a lifetime, and some are given only enough time to become eternal.❞ In which a princess raised beneath the quiet stars of matsya falls in love with a prince who carries moonlight in his laughter and war in his destiny. ──────⋅⋅──────⋅⋅────── genre: mythology · romance · family · coming of age content: love, war, grief & canon-typical loss. couple : abhimanyu. uttara. status: ongoing ──────⋅⋅──────⋅⋅────── come for the boy who grew up surrounded by legends and the girl who loved him before he became one. stay for the little constellation they make together - because kurukshetra may take the boy. but it will never take his tomorrow.
Ash and Amaranth | A Short Story ✓ by GildedLotusInk
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A three shot story. Seven years ago, Aryan disappeared without a word - and Maahi spent every one of them since learning how to stop waiting. Now he's on her table, barely breathing, and every quiet thing about him tells her he never really left at all. She saved strangers for a living. She never thought she would have to save him - or the love she thought she had buried with him. word count : 8k words source inspiration : Bharat and Mandavi from Ramayana.
Run on Water | A Short Story  ✓ by GildedLotusInk
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A three shot story. She learned to survive anything. He is quietly finishing everything - so he can stop. Three tasks stand between Dev and an ending only he knows about. Myra has stood beside him through every loss that came before, unclaimed, unspoken, the one steady thing he never thought to call love. Now the list is almost done. And she is the one thing he never counted. Run on Water - a story about the love we survive on without ever naming, and the last, unlisted reason to stay. word count : 8K words source inspiration : Lakshman and Urmila from Ramayana.
Protector's Turn | A Short Story  ✓ by GildedLotusInk
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A three shot story. Vishnu. Sesha. Ram. Lakshman. Krishna. Balarama. This era - Prithvi and Arul. Arul has always been the one who arrives before the worst thing does - in every yuga, every story, every version of them. This time, he's the one on the rope, hundreds of feet down, listening to his brother's voice go thin over a dying comms line - and for the first time across ages, the protector is the one who might not make it in time. Prithvi has always been the strength Arul leaned on when death came close. He has never had to be that strength while dying himself. Now every word he says has to hold his brother up, even as the water is the only thing holding him. word count : 8k words
Apricity Finally  | Ambys2026 ✓ by GildedLotusInk
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Aisha is everything Rudra has spent his life learning to distrust - loud, unbothered, allergic to rules he's built his whole identity around. He is everything she's learned to resent - controlled, cold, the kind of certainty that once cost her everything. Neither is who the other assumes. A story where the disguise isn't a secret identity - it's just how badly people can misread pain that doesn't look like their own. word count : 16K words
The Long Dusk | A Ramayana Story by GildedLotusInk
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❝Grief moved through that year like wind through a forest - touching every branch, bending every leaf, and somehow, still leaving room for flowers.❞ The final year of exile begins with Sita gone and her name breaking against an empty forest in Ram and Lakshman's voices - while, somewhere far away in Ayodhya, the people who love them are still counting the days until home. But what happens when the year meant to bring everyone back to each other becomes the one that asks the most of them? ──────⋅⋅──────⋅⋅────── genre: mythological retelling · historical fiction content: mature themes · war · grief started: august 17,2026 ──────⋅⋅──────⋅⋅──────
Parth Pranaa | Arjuna's Love Story [ mahabharat ] by GildedLotusInk
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Everyone remembers the thunder. No one remembers it was born of something quieter first. ❝They call me the loudest name in this war - the one whose bow cracked louder than any thunder Indra ever sent down. They forget that thunder is only an echo. Something else always moves first, unseen, and thunder is only what follows after.❞ Derived from the truth this telling keeps returning to - that a man's loudest, most celebrated moments are rarely the ones that actually shaped him - this is the story beneath the story, the quiet weather no one thought worth recording. The Mahabharata is a heroic tale of ancient times. It is also the truth of life. What is a man's thunder worth, if no one ever asks what passed through the sky before it? This is his return to four separate skies - one that lit up briefly before a storm of duty rolled in and swallowed it whole, one that gathered slowly around a stranger's grief long before either of them called it love, one that stayed distant and unclaimed for years over a kingdom not his own, one that broke open freely, by his own choosing, and was struck down regardless. Thunder always follows the same law - it only ever arrives after the light has already come and gone, too late to be the thing anyone actually remembers. Parth Praana asks what came before the thunder in a man like this - and whether the four skies that shaped his weather deserve, at last, to be remembered as more than the noise that followed them. An Arjuna's Love Story recording his love for the four lady love of his life. #1 in joy #1 in ardi #1 in arsu #1 in subhadra #2 in uloopi #3 in arjun
Milan | A Ramayana Short Story ✓ by GildedLotusInk
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Dawn breaks over four gardens, and four hearts forget themselves at once. Before the fire, before the vows, before the world calls them gods and goddesses - there is only dew-damp grass beneath bare feet, a flower reached for and a hand found instead, a peacock's cry breaking a held breath open. Here, love arrives the way monsoon arrives: unannounced, overwhelming, impossible to outrun. Four mornings. Four strangers. One unbearable, blooming first. This is Milan - where the epic hasn't yet caught up to their hearts.
The Fires of Vyomantara | 18+  ✓ by GildedLotusInk
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❝I was born to disappear. Then a fire looked at me and refused to let me.❞ Agnija, the empire's finest Rupantari, is sent to wear a stranger's face and win a prince's trust - until the trust becomes love, and the love becomes a lie she can no longer wear. ──────⋅⋅──────⋅⋅────── "Say my name," he murmured, low, aching, his mouth close to her ear. "Savyasachi." Barely more than breath, and something in his eyes darkened at the sound of it, as though her voice alone were a kind of touch he could not get enough of. "Whatever you are hiding from me," he said quietly, "I have known for weeks there is something. But I watched you weep for a woman's pain as though it were carved into your own chest, and I do not believe, whatever else is true, that what I am watching is a lie." ──────⋅⋅──────⋅⋅────── 𓆩♡𓆪 morally complicated people making catastrophically romantic decisions 𓆩♡𓆪 identity, deception & oh no, he sees me 𓆩♡𓆪 ancient courts, old magic & dangerous secrets 𓆩♡𓆪 yearning with absolutely nowhere sensible to go 𓆩♡𓆪 a woman who has worn a hundred faces learning what it means to have one of her own 𓆩♡𓆪 a prince who knows she is lying and chooses to look closer ──────⋅⋅──────⋅⋅────── genre: historical fantasy · romance · political intrigue content: mature themes status: completed - august 16, 2026 ──────⋅⋅──────⋅⋅────── come for the woman who learned to survive in a hundred skins. stay for the one who refuses to be erased by love, empire, or anything that tries to name her.
Prema | A Ramayana Short Story ✓ by GildedLotusInk
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They had already fallen in love. They had already chosen each other. But years of exile, fire, silence and waiting had left marks that even the happiest homecoming couldn't touch. And now - with the war over, the lamps lit, and Ayodhya celebrating - four couples were about to discover something harder than loving each other. Learning how to come back to each other. Because love had survived. Now it was time to live with it.