Now that period seems like a distant golden age to the Ahiranyi but for Parijatdvipa it was a time of despotism from which the empire arose to save the Parijati people.

In a remote period known as the Age of Flowers, Ahiranya was a rich country that had come close to ruling the whole sub-continent. Ashok disappeared into the killing fields of the bone forests to await his chance to take revenge on the Parijati invaders.Īhiranya is a land that has fallen partly into ruin since the destruction of its spiritual elders and the growth of a kind of rot that infects people as well as crops and forests. Priya had to make her way then as a servant, finding work in the household of the regent, due to the kindness of his wife, Bhumika. That prison, the Hirana, had been the sacred center of Ahiranyi culture until destroyed by the invaders, and its elders and children burned alive.įrom that inferno years ago, the children Priya and her brother Ashok had escaped with the help of an elder of their faith and of supernatural powers they were just beginning to learn. At her refusal, Chandra has her imprisoned in the abandoned citadel of a religious order of Ahiranya, a country brutally conquered and now ruled by a Parijati regent. And even more by his abhorrence at what he sees as her impurity (her attraction to women).

The princess Malini refuses this fate that her emperor brother Chandra has pushed on her as part of his fanatical faith. The Jasmine Throne opens with preparation of a funeral pyre on which three young high-born women of the Parijatdvipa empire are to be immolated in an act of purification by fire.

The jasmine throne by tasha suri