RAMARPANAM-46

File 46.

Dated : June 1st, 2012.

Jai Sri Ram.

Dasaratha's reasoning for not sending Rama.

Visvamitra clarified to Dasaratha that the Yajna He is attempting is for 6 days and that He would require the services of Rama just for 10 days. So better He would send the Lotus eyed Rama with Him.

Dasaratha, after recovering from the faint like situation on hearing Visvamitra request, took the cue from what He said and reacted specifically thus :

Unashodasa varsho Mein Ramaha rajeeva lochana: meaning

My Rama, Lotus eyed one, is not even 16 years old
and so He would not be fit to go for a fight, as per the yudha sastra.

rajeeva lochana: further meant that as the Lotus flower shuts to itself at the setting of the sun, so also Rama's eyes would prefer to sleep after twilight and so cannot fight the nisacharas, those who wander in the thick of night and attack the Yajna site.

As per certain calculations, Rama's age at the time of Visvamitra's visit was just 12 years. Whereas Dasaratha meant to say that Rama was 16 years or less of age. It may look like a contradiction. In fact Dasaratha's intention here was not to suggest Rama's  correct age but was to emphasis that 16 years or less would make Him  ineligible for the war of the kind Visvamitra requested His services.

Namalwar at the age of 16 took Madhurakavi Alwar as His disciple and gave away saraNagadi sastra in the form of 4 Divya Prabhandam to be palm-scripted by Him. So also Rama, in less than that age, walked behind Visvamitra as disciple to master the Dhanur Veda.

Namalwar saved the three worlds by His writings, holding His Sastra paNi  and Rama by hittings from His Bow as Sastra PaNi.

So, let us beseech the Alwar to behold Rama.