To understand the ways of Meluhans before committing to head their campaign against evil, Shiva goes around the country. Shiva has meanwhile fallen in love with Sati, Daksha's daughter. Legend has it that the Neelkanth would arrive and save the Suryavanshis.
But their neighbours, the Chandravanshis, the less evolved, a free-flowing society that are always interfering with them have over the years been taking the help of the despicable Naga tribe, and causing severe damage to Meluha through several terrorist attacks. They are the Suryavanshis and have means to mass produce ‘somras’ which gives them an advantage over others. Meluha is a kingdom that follows the laws of Manu, Lord Ram. Daksha explains to him why the Neelkanth is so important to him and Meluha. King Daksha sees Shiva's iridescent blue throat, the Neelkanth, which turns a luminous blue from the inside - a side effect of drinking the ‘somras’. But most importantly the ‘somras’ has some fine effects on Shiva that makes the doctors take him urgently to meet the King of Meluha, Daksha. Shiva is told that the ‘somras’ will give them long, disease-free life, a life in which they will be able to live for long years with the vitality of their youth. The medicine 'somras' has its effect and brings high fevers to most and are taken care of by the efficient doctors.
Intially they are kept in camps on the outskirts where they learn of the Meluhans obsession with hygiene, are taught the ways of the land, quarantined for possible illnesses and administered medicines to cleanse them. The barbaric tribe reaches Meluha, a well-developed, highly evolved society. There is constant strife for prime land between Shiva's tribe and the other tribes and after one such vicious attack, Shiva decides to move from this land to the neighbouring land of Meluha, on invitation of course. The only hope for the Suryavanshis is an ancient legend: When evil reaches epic proportions, when all seems lost, when it appears that your enemies have triumphed, a hero will emerge.The story, set sometime in 1800 BC or so, begins with a Tibetan tribal leader Shiva, who is under attack from his neighbouring barbaric tribes. To make matters worse, the Chandravanshis appear to have allied with the Nagas, an ostracised and sinister race of deformed humans with astonishing martial skills. They also face devastating terrorist attacks from the east, the land of the Chandravanshis. This once proud empire and its Suryavanshi rulers face severe perils as its primary river, the revered Saraswati, is slowly drying to extinction. The inhabitants of that period called it the land of Meluha a near perfect empire created many centuries earlier by Lord Ram, one of the greatest monarchs that ever lived. Its 1900 BCE in what modern Indians mistakenly call the Indus Valley Civilization.
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