Saturday, May 12, 2012

RAMARPANAM-30

File 30

Dated 10-05-2012

Dasaratha and His subjects.

Offering pranAms again and again to that Rama, who quells hardships and fills all the wealth to the seeker, we move on to the story how King Dasratha + His 3 wives, in all 4 jointly, were blessed with 4 children, Rama-LakshmaNa-Bharata-SatrugNa.

To put it in other words,

Dasaratha and His Aides, namely Sumantra + Vasishta + Rishyasingar, these 4 together made it happen for the King, when He went without even one child for several millennium years.

Kambar accolades Dasratha meaning :

He was taking care of His subjects as Mother to a child. In austere methods He was comparable to the DevathAs and the Rishis. For those inflicted with ailment or disease He served as medicine and in their betterment, helped as proficiency would do for them.

By His philanthropic gestures, He dried the sea of indigents. By His studious instincts, He became a Savvy of all knowledge. He crushed His enemies, by the might of sword. He accomplished all the Bliss, a King would deserve, by the Grace of God.

Despite all these, the birth of a Crown Prince to succeed was denied to Him for several millennium years. So He started consultation with His counsel of Ministers and decided to perform Ashwameda yagnya.

They narrated the story of King RomapAda of Angadesa, who brought Rishyasingar to invoke the mercy of Rain God to remedy the famine and draught that fraught his nation. So also, they desired that King Dasaratha shall perform PutrakAmeshti by the hands of Rishyasingar for a child to be blessed to Him.

The Yagnya sAla used in ThrethA Yuga that stand testimony to the story of Rama AvatAr can be witnessed on the banks of Sarayu in AyodhyA even today, to believe it yourself.

--K S S.

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