RamarpaNam-85

File 85.

Dated: July 26, 2012.

Jai Sri Ram.

Rama’s love at first sight.

Ulagam yaavaiyum Thaam uLavakkalum

Nilai peruththalum, neengala

Alagilaa viLaiyatudaiyaar, avar

Thalaivar, AnnavarkE charaN naangLe.

Kamba RamayaNam, written in chaste Tamil spreading in 10000 sweet verses, reproduces Valmiki’s Sri RamayaNam in a more lucid and dramatic style. Kambar deviates from the original in certain places of the story, in text and not in content.  One such chapter included in Kamba RamayaNam is the Mithilai Padalam, with graphic parturition of Rama’s entry into Janakapuri and His chance exchange of sight with Sita, the Bride of Rama.

As Rama LakshmaNa walked through the streets of the city of Mithila, known for grate palaces and princely residences, in one of the upper story of the Princely palaces, Sita was standing to be looked by Rama, as He crossed. They both exchanged sight and with that their hearts too exchanged places between them and were in love, at first sight.

Sooner than the two going out of sight, the sickness of separation started annihilating Sita’s soul. Moon started shining harsh. Milk didn’t taste as milk. The foamy bed pricked like stone. Unable to bear, Sita even disliked Her parents for the sake of Rama, who has to pass through the test kept for marrying Her.

The flags in the city welcomed Rama by their fluttering hands.

Rama was lotus eyed as if His spouse house, Padmam, shifted place from water holes to His charming face.

The youths and the mistresses there looked like the Gods in heaven. Their wealth knew no limits that gold and silver wares were shriven everywhere. It was not callousness but care too hood to them approach.

The time Rama entered Mithila was evening time, when the moon started rising.  This moon with a black hair in the middle was less blistering than the face-moon of the damsels in the city.

….so goes the descriptions by Kambar in this Padalam.

With Love in heart, everything seem un-interesting than the loved. That too for Goddess Lakshmi, the in-separable from VishNu, could not prolong Her joining in marriage with Rama.

This sringara rasa was brought out nicely by Kambar, in His poetic frenzy.

We shall forsake love for worldly things in exchange for Love of God, as did Sita and Rama engaged between them in heart and Soul.