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Dated 04-05-2012.
Jai Sri Ram.
Exordium to Srimath Ramayanam.
Sage Narada after presenting the Samkshepa Ramayanam to Valmiki, took leave of him. He, a triloka sanchari, will not stay for long in any one place. Valmiki there after, along with Bharadwaja, His student, proceeded to Tamasa river for completing the mid-day oblations. He, finding the Tamasa water crystal clear, exclaimed to Bharadwaja that it is so pure and transparent like the mind of the learned.
On His return treak, He took a different route through the groves of trees and plants. As He stepped in He saw two birds engaged in love making. Just as He was feeling happy at that sight, the male bird was hit by an arrow of a hunter and fell dead instantly. The female bird, sorrow sticken screamed out of shock and died too, causing grief and anger in the minds of Valmiki. He then turned to the hunter in rage and spontaneously uttered the following verse:
Ma nishada pratishtitham tvamagamah sasvatisamah
Yat kruncha mithunadekam avadhih kamamohitam.
ending in a curse on the hunter.
He returned to His Ashram and yet was feeling disturbed for His anger resulting in words of bad augury to the hunter. As God would desire, Brahma appeared before Him to dispell the ill feelings He had. Brahma then revealing the disguised meaning of the sloka in that Rama and Sita, distanced by Ravana, were later re-united by killing him. The words of curse turned out to be words of praise on Them.
Lord Brahma then blessed Valmiki an intuitive eye to see and compose the epic on the life of Sri Rama, beginning with the verse He uttered on the hunter episode.
This Valmiki Ramayana is re-told in Tamil by Kamba Nattazhwan. He declares therein that the story of Rama written first by Valmiki and later by erudites like Vasishta, Bhodayana is being recreated in Tamil. Which attempt, he says is as childish as those of a devotee, retarded or a lame-brained. He further says, out of modesty, that His act is so meek as that of a cat attempting to drink the ocean-of-milk fully. So much so, He would do little justice in His attempt.
Whatever claims the Poets have of themselves, the story of Rama is enchanting, in that which ever languages it re-incarnates it rejunuates better than ever. Come let us be a parrot (like Valmiki Kokilam) or a cat (like Kamban) to enjoy the fruit and milk together.
--K S S.
Dated 04-05-2012.
Jai Sri Ram.
Exordium to Srimath Ramayanam.
Sage Narada after presenting the Samkshepa Ramayanam to Valmiki, took leave of him. He, a triloka sanchari, will not stay for long in any one place. Valmiki there after, along with Bharadwaja, His student, proceeded to Tamasa river for completing the mid-day oblations. He, finding the Tamasa water crystal clear, exclaimed to Bharadwaja that it is so pure and transparent like the mind of the learned.
On His return treak, He took a different route through the groves of trees and plants. As He stepped in He saw two birds engaged in love making. Just as He was feeling happy at that sight, the male bird was hit by an arrow of a hunter and fell dead instantly. The female bird, sorrow sticken screamed out of shock and died too, causing grief and anger in the minds of Valmiki. He then turned to the hunter in rage and spontaneously uttered the following verse:
Ma nishada pratishtitham tvamagamah sasvatisamah
Yat kruncha mithunadekam avadhih kamamohitam.
ending in a curse on the hunter.
He returned to His Ashram and yet was feeling disturbed for His anger resulting in words of bad augury to the hunter. As God would desire, Brahma appeared before Him to dispell the ill feelings He had. Brahma then revealing the disguised meaning of the sloka in that Rama and Sita, distanced by Ravana, were later re-united by killing him. The words of curse turned out to be words of praise on Them.
Lord Brahma then blessed Valmiki an intuitive eye to see and compose the epic on the life of Sri Rama, beginning with the verse He uttered on the hunter episode.
This Valmiki Ramayana is re-told in Tamil by Kamba Nattazhwan. He declares therein that the story of Rama written first by Valmiki and later by erudites like Vasishta, Bhodayana is being recreated in Tamil. Which attempt, he says is as childish as those of a devotee, retarded or a lame-brained. He further says, out of modesty, that His act is so meek as that of a cat attempting to drink the ocean-of-milk fully. So much so, He would do little justice in His attempt.
Whatever claims the Poets have of themselves, the story of Rama is enchanting, in that which ever languages it re-incarnates it rejunuates better than ever. Come let us be a parrot (like Valmiki Kokilam) or a cat (like Kamban) to enjoy the fruit and milk together.
--K S S.
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