Ending of the novel, "Samskara".

The novel,"Samskara" by U. R. Anantha Murthy ends up abruptly. At the very last chapter of the novel, Acharya cremated Bhagirathi's body. Many people of the village die because of plague. Anantha Murthy here represents a very realistic picture of the then South-Indian villages.


          In the novel, Anantha Murthy also presents a contradiction between the orthodoxical brahminical principals and the modern sceptic outlook toward life. The first is represented by the Acharya and the other Brahmins of Agrahara and the later by Manjayya, a true leader of Parijatpura. While in Durvasapura all the Brahmins are totally depended on conventional Hindu rituals to be free from the plague, the rationalist Manjayya Rook quick decisions to go to municipality authority to get the dead body removed, to summon the doctors, to exterminate the rats because all these things are responsible behind the epidemic plague.


          At the ending, we also find an important meeting of Pranesha to Padmavati who like Chandri and Belli represents life and happiness. When he meets Padmavati, he becomes aware of the sin and goes to Agrahara without making love with Padmavati to admit his sin to the agrahara Brahmins.