4.Aranya Kandam
(The book of
forest)
(Rama and
Lakshmana and Sita as per the
advice of Sage Agasthya decide to shift to Panchavati. There
they met an Asura called Viradha, whom the brothers kill. While they were staying there
Soorpanakha the sister of
Ravana is attracted by Rama , who
refuses her. When Soorpanakha tries to
carry away Sita , Lakshmana cuts off her
nose , ears and breasts. Her Cousin
Khara comes with a huge army to fight
with Rama. Rama alone kills Khara and his huge army. Soorpanakha goes and tells Ravana that Sita was extremely pretty and when she was
trying to bring her to Lanka, Lakshmana
,
Cuts her nose and ears. Ravana falls in love with
Sita. He makes Mareecha his uncle
to become a golden deer and tempt
Sita. When Sita wants the golden deer to play , Rama goes behind it . The deer dies but calls Lakshmana for help. Sita compels Lakshmana
to go to the help of Rama. Ravana
coming in the garb of a sage kidnaps
her. Jatayu , who tries to prevent it is
killed. Rama and Ravana go in search of
Sita. On the way a Rakshasi called
Ayomukhi kidnaps Lakshmana who
disfigures her and escapes. Later they
meet with a Rakshasa called
Kabandha . On killing him Kabandha gets rid of his curse and advises
Rama to seek help of Sugreeva the
monkey who is the son of Sun God and
also meet a sage called Sabari .Rama meets Sabari and gives her salvation.)
Kadavul Vaazzthu
Prayer to God
2516.Would I with my
little wisdom understand that primeval God,
Who could not be
understood by the four Vedas , which,
Never altered from
its high view point , which did
not,
Differ from the various forms originating from it and which gives ,
An understanding of the true feeling when it is read several times,
And by the
Brahmins learned those Vedas , by Brahma
and other devas.
1.Viradhan Vadhai padalam
The chapter on killing of Viradha.
(Rama and Lakshmana meet sage Athri and his wife Anasooya and then enter the
Dandaka forest. There they are attacked
by an ignorant Asura called Viradha. Viradha informs them that he cannot be killed and takes Sita
away. Rama and Lakshmana attack
Viradha, cut his hands off and bury him
deep in to the earth. Viradha assumes
his Gandharwa form amd praises Rama and goes to heavens
In Valmiki
Ramayana Viradha tells Rama and
Lakshmana to go and meet sage Sarabhanga)
2517. Those lads who carried those pretty bent bows along with Sita,
Who had teeth
which resembled the arrangement
of collected pearls ,
Reached the
hermitage of a great saint Called Athri which
was,
Having dense
gardens full of trees with leaves
as well fruits.
2518.Those Rama and Lakshmana who were like
small eyed elephants,
Who were carrying the burden of earth on all
directions and ,
Were having
big pretty tusks, after entering the hermitage ,
Saluted that sage
of great penance who had completely ,
Got rid of passion , anger and illusion
and that saint with joy told them.
2519.That sage who became as happy as if his relatives have come ,
Said, with a melting mind “Sons of Dasaratha , is it easy for people like
us to see you,
Who have come and visited us? It is like
all the worlds and ,
All the devas
have paid a visit . It looks like we have ,
Done more
penance than everybody in the world.”
2520.After
spending that day with that great saint , as per the order ,
Of his wife Anasuya
who was a lady of great
virtue , who presented,
Pretty ornaments
and great dresses to the
daughter of Janaka,
They left that
place and entered the great
Dandaka forest.
2521- 2532. Carrying
in his powerful trident the bodies of sixteen elephants,
Thirty two lions
and sixteen Yalis which had cruel round eyes,
Which were living in the forest which were
densely placed ,
By his one powerful hand , Viradha who had
red lustrous curly hair,
Looked like a
mountain of poison walked speedily on the floor inside
that forest,
Driving the
clouds away like cotton
by the movement of his legs ,
With fire sparks coming out of his eye like the twitching of wounds,
Making the sky
with clouds shiver , making the
mountains shiver ,
Making the sun who saw him loose his
luster ,
Making the earth surrounded by water tremble
,
Making the very strong God of death
depressed in mind,
With fire
sparks entering the ears of great lions,
With the gem
studded top of Meru mountain becoming
cold ,
With the coating of blood
from those fallen warriors who came against him,
Making him look like a reddish sky ,
Wearing several
type of garlands which wave on his broad shoulders made of,
Well armed men , huge
elephants in rut , chariots ,
Tigers whose job seemed to be killing people
,
And all other things that reached near him,
Who after
putting large number of
elephants in rut,
Stacked them one
over another by using his huge hands
In his cave like mouth
and munching them,
Who in spite of eating them was looking hungry and searching food,
Whose chest was
decorated by garland of pythons with
sound on which,
The gems from
great serpents like Vasuki were taken
out and studded,
And the nine planets
of the sky and the planes used by the devas,
Were hung
here and there , Who had red hairs like
the broad red sky,
Who had shoulder
rings made of the huge decorative shield hung ,
On the huge tusks
of the huge Airavatha elephant of
king Indra,
With the dark
black colour shining on him, the great cruelty
which rises,
Rising up , with
the great sin that does
very great harm,
And looking like the kali age which is a mixture of fire and poison ,
And which is drowned in dark night
, with the hides of very powerful,
Cruel and huge tigers
rolling on his very huge chest as upper cloth ,
With hides of many
elephants tied around his hips,
With a
shining belt of a huge
python which has gems ,
From those eight
guardians which stand around the
world ,
With huge armlets
made from the red eyed long serpents,
As well as
invaluable gems worn round his
cruel arms,
With the chalanchala conches which were produced with difficulty by other conches,
Decorating his conch bangles with his
legs pushing ,
The silver mountain and the golden mountain like balls
,
Was walking and
walking around the mountain path,
And though he was living
on earth , he was,
Living in the
minds as well as the eyes of devas.
2533. He had a new
form like a single great element made by all
the five elements together,
He had a voice like thunder and had
the power of exactly twenty five thousand ,
Elephants in
rut , created
by Lord Brahma with great love.
2534, That Viradha
who had very scary eyes and had the job like very cruel thunder,
Was uprooting many trees and powdering many mountains by
his speedy walk,
And came and stood
before Rama and Lakshmana ,
Who had bows which had very huge size but had not participated in any war.
2535.Opening the big cave like mouth with the long white teeth
Huge protruding teeth
which had eaten flesh he
shouted,
“Stop, stop” and
immediately lifted Sita who was
like a swan,
Sitting on an open lotus flower ,by his hands and proceeded on the sky.
2536-2537.Those lads who were like young bulls got very angry ,
And holding the cruel bow which they had hung on their shoulders,
And the lustrous arrows in their right hand , followed that Virada .
And told him, “Hey silly one , this is cheating
, turn ,
Where are you going? And then that Rakshasa said,
“By the boon given by Brahma to me , I cannot die,
Even if I do not have any weapon and even if
,
I am opposed
by people of all the world .
Silly ones , I have given your souls as charity to you,
And so leave this girl with and proceed.”
2538-2540. Rama smiled
like the silvery moon light understanding,
That Virada did not know war fare and that his
strength ,
And joy would soon get faded and when he twanged his bow,
And that Rama who had the blue colour of rich cloud ,
Who held a very sharp spear ,twanged
the long string his bow so that,
The earth surrounded by water of the sea with tides and mountains,
,The king heavens and the land of the serpents trembled and echoed
As if hit by a great thunder and then that Viradha leaving Sita,
Who was shouting
like a suffering caged macaw
Caught by a cruel
cheating huge cat and stood depressed,
And after thinking
, came and stood with great anger in front of Rama .
2541-2553 .When he
threw the trident which had a tip which was,
Dipped willingly
in the blood of his enemies for the sake of quenching,
The thirst of ghosts,
Which was very heavy and which
had the form,
Of the burning mare
which had the fire
which wanted to drink ,
The water of the
ocean of the northern side with
its face and mouth,
And while it was
coming like a lustrous poison
shaking ,
The eight directions, the devas who were
protecting those directions,
The eight elephants
in those eight directions and
the world ,
Rama from his
bow which was stronger than the faultless ,
Seven mountains like Meru, sent an arrow at him, thinking,
That this crown of
Rakshasas would be destroyed today ,
And cut in to two
that trident which had
the luster,
Of big stars
with great luster falling from
the empty sky in day time ,
And threw it to
the end of the direction and then that
giant ,
Seeing that his
cruel trident was cut in to two pieces ,
Without getting any tiresomeness in the war
,
Assuming valorous
behavior , using his huge hands,
Which could destroy the heaven , then
he started picking ,
Up huge mountains one
by one and throwing them at Rama,
And due to Rama
sending huge lustrous arrows ,
Breaking those
lustrous mountains thrown at him
by Viradha,
And then they broke
the mountains and went with great speed .
And hit all over
the body of Viradha and when
all the parts ,
Of the body thus
hit became wounded , and then he uprooted ,
A huge maramara
and was rushing to beat Rama .
who is the form of “Om”.
Who had the name
which could be understood by only
great learned elders ,
Who had left his bed of Adhi Sesha and took an incarnation in this earth,
To establish Dharma
, That Rama whose culture
increased by days,
Using four arrows
and cut in to many pieces those Maramaras ,
Which were coming
against him and then he shot twelve ,
Cruel arrows
with great speed and when he hit his chest ,
Then when that
giant like a boar troubled with very many arrows,
On his body which
is dejected and trying to get them out,
Shook his
body , Rama sent on him more fire like arrows,
And without hitting anywhere else
when all those arrows,
Pierced on his
body, that giant who was greatly cruel
but without wisdom,,
Looked like a mountain with several streams and like this,
When he lost his
strength and wisdom,
Those Rama and Lakshmana who had great shoulders ,
Which helped them
fight without getting tired ,
And knowing well that
this Viradha who had got the boon
of no destruction,
By hitting him
with arrows , with great anger took their swords ,
And with the
thought that they would cut off his arms with that
,
And when the climbed on his broad shoulders, that giant Viradha,
He who had fallen on the earth with great flow of blood and lost his senses,
Again got up ,
regained his sensations and lfted Rama
and Lakshmana,
With his shoulders which were like Dhandayudha hugged them ,
And rose up and
walked with ten more times more
vigour than earlier,
And with that Rama and Lakshmana who were shining like sun and
moon,
Which go round the
Meru mountain hit him on the top of the sky with force ,
And when he was
rotating like a top, , he who was having
,
On his shoulders
Rama and Lakshmana and was walking,
Touching the sky
looked like Garuda the personification of Dharma,
And the great king , flying round carrying Krishna and
Balarama.
2554.Then Sita who was born in a great clan seeing
that the very merciful,
Rama was being put
under his strength and being
carried by that cheat
Was greatly disturbed and faded and was like a female swan,
Which saw her mate
being imprisoned and being carried out by others.
Fell on the
dust with her hair
like a flowering branch.
2555.Again Sita
not getting help from any where and no
one to console her,
Followed Viradha with her streak of lightning like waist getting tired,
Telling him that
“Please leave those followers of
Dharma , who love ,
Others like mother
, and take and eat me
“ and fell before him.
2356.Seeing her
with a stammering mouth
crying , becoming extremely sad,
And understanding the sorrowful state of her who was
like a picture ,
Lakshmana , after
saluting Rama and asked him , “should you watch ,
The Goddess, sorrowing and keep quite playfully .It is not
proper?” and ,
Rama who created
the world after final deluge
replied.
2557-2561.”Oh matchless
one, I thought it is better to sweetly cross this forest
,
In comfort riding
on this person’s shoulders though
it is not at all,
Difficult to kill
him “ . Saying this in jest , Rama ,
Kicked that Giant
by his leg wearing heroic anklet,
And Rama and
Lakshmana , who had huge shoulders , getting very angry,
With a sharp sword
cut both the shoulders of that giant ,
And like Rahu the serpent planet neared
the shining sun and moon ,
And both of them saw
that in spite of the large amount
of blood that flowed from his body ,
That there was
no change in him and still he was going along
,
That Rama who was
great in thought said ,” Oh brother ,
I think except
burying him swiftly in the earth
,
There seems to be no alternative” and that pure Rama
with his reddish feet ,
Which has
eaten the sweet smelling pure ghee
poured in the pit made by a plough,
Made of Athi wood
and which fulfills the desires of all the devotees ,
Kicked and made
that Asura fall on earth and
then,
Buried him in a
pit made by Lakshmana, near the west
flowing river,
And that giant realizing that he has
been buried deep in the earth,
Remembered the earlier curse of Khubera
which turned him,
In to a cruel Asura
, And after getting out of the
cruel hateful body,
Like Lord Brahma , the primeval god coming out of the egg called HIranya Garbha,
Appeared before
them in his former form of a Gandharwa.
2562.Having got
imprisoned by the net of five senses ,
with the soul ,
Wandering in
the materialistic view outside But by his
remembering,
That he was involved earlier in holy acts which
were beyond thought,
And also due to his having great devotion leading him to unification with God earlier,
He started praying Rama due to the help of the realized true wisdom.
2563.”If these are your holy feet that is spread in all the worlds chanting Vedas ,
How would your other parts of body other than the feet look like?
Apart from living
in the sea with water , if you are also ,
Living in all the
contradictory beings that pervade ,
How are they able to bear you within them?”
2564,”When the very angry crocodile
caught hold of
the legs,
Of the elephant
and when that elephant lifting its trunks upward,
And getting exhausted
shouted making all directions
hear him,
“Oh great God who lives in all beings , oh great god”,
Are you not the one
who asked him “Why?” and removed his sorrow.
2565.”Oh lord with
lotus like eyes having sight of
grace without any bias,
For protecting Dharma
, you are spread inside and
outside of everything ,
Though there is
no one to help you in your divine
endeavor.
And are you the only
one to rotate like a fan for
doing this duty?”
2566,”Oh Lord who is well involved with joy
in the sports that are called
birth and death,
Even if the wise ones who have cut off all attachments, by chance are born
in this world,
Would they forget their nature and if it is
not possible would they take
birth,
And even for
those , the great luck they get is some thing very rare.”
2567.When all the people of all other religion
say that their God,
Is the only one who
is a boat that helps one cross the
fearsome sea of birth,
Because you are
the form of that matchless form of real truth,
What would those Gods who
come from now onwards try to do?
2568.”Oh Rama
who is the matchless form of
Dharma to the,
Lord Brahma who
is sitting on that restless lotus
flower,
To the devas who do not have death and
to all the beings,
Who are not the devas , you are the primeval , father and ,
You are also
their mother who gave them birth as per law.
2569.”You are the primeval God and all the worlds belong to you ,
And even other
religions who are not able to think and
understand you ,
Attain you and no one else and in spite
of that ,
Why are you hiding like a cheat , Why are appealing publicly?,
And is there any
necessity for this great sport of illusion of yours?”
2570.”Oh God who can appear before your devotees as one
who is weak,
There is no calf that
cannot recognize its mother and
so also there is no cow,
That cannot recognize
its calf and since you are mother
of all,
You know about every being and those
beings are not able ,
To recognize you and I am not able to understand this
wheel of illusion?
2571.The people of the world for praying would consider very many Gods,
And thinking
that there is a God superior to
you is not the nature of very wise
people,
Is it not true that
the Brahmins who originate from Lord Brahma ,
Who rides on
a swan
think of you as greatest God and no one else?”
Would this not be thought out by people following many religions?
2572.”Oh Lord who has a chest lived by Goddess Lakshmi
,
Those Gods
specially mentioned by the matchless other religions ,
Are like the ignorant people who think about bad and good action,
And perform matchless
penance? Where is the need of
penance for you?
Oh Lord who does not sleep and is always awake,
You are always
sleeping as if there is no other work
for you.”
2573. “You bore
the lady earth as
the serpent called Adhisesha ,
You have lifted her using your teeth as a wild boar
,
At the time of deluge
you swallowed the same world by your mouth,
You measured and hid her by one step, Would not Goddess
Lakshmi ,
Who stays in your chest wearing perfumed
garland of Thulasi .
Get very much angry with you , if she knows about it?”
2574.”Oh Lord , would it not be possible for the beings that you created,
To know about this truth
and can they not get salvation?
If they do what
problems would you face by that?
Due to the alms given to
Lord Shiva who is armed with an
axe ,
There are devas
and men whose doubt as to who is
the greatest truth has been removed?”
2575.Oh Rama who
is a boar unearthed the earth by your
horn,
Taking the shape
of a swan , you taught Vedas to Lord Brahma,
Who taught you that Vedas before? Were they all dead at
that time?
If those which separated from a thing , join together to form
,
That same thing, does it mean they are the same thing or,
Does it mean they have not come by division,
I am not able to
understand this illusion.”
2576.Oh Lord Who cannot be compared with any other thing,
Due to your leaving
the place you normally stay on the milk ocean,
And appeared
before me due to the great penance I
did ,
I have left the
sea of the inferior form of mine and I
will not be born again,
And you have removed all my good and bad fate
by your ,
Red feet which
is of the colour of the coral gem.
2577.When he
stopped after telling all these words ,
Rama told him “Please tell me the story
about,
Your taking the
form of Asura” and he ,
Who had achieved victory
started telling.
2578.”Long live ,
Oh Rama , who has the divine feet
granting eternal wisdom,
So this life filled with stealing and deceiving goes away and
Who is very charitable
, Please hear” and then,
He started
telling Rama about his story.
2579.Oh valorous one who holds a cruel bow in his hand
,
I was born in this
world and later became an Asura ,
My name was Dumburu
and I was ,
A subject of Khubera
in the heavens.”
2580.Due to the
criminal passion which
came to me,
To hide my wisdom ,
he cursed me to become an Asura ,
Without any mercy and I was born in an Asura clan.
2581.When I got the curse
, I asked him,
When will I get
freedom from this curse ,
And the very
great thinker Khubera told,
That, “ it will go when your feet touches me.”
2582.”Oh primeval one
from that time,
Till today , as I
had no wisdom , I did not ,
Differentiate between good and bad ,
And by eating all beings
I accumulated bad fate.
2583.”It was the good Karma that is within me that made me,
To stand before you with liking to do it and when
your ,
Pretty feet that wears
Vedas touched me ,
I got rid of the
curse and became my former self.
2584. He said “Oh Lord who keeps himself alive even at deluge,
Please pardon this fool
who came as per my karma
And did lot of harmful acts to you
“ and
Viradha
assumed his Gandharwa form and
went to heaven.
2585After knowing that
Viradha ,
Who was loved by
the devas left his soul,
Rama and Lakshmana went along with the flower
decorated lady ,
Away from that
horrible place.
2586.They who were
holding spears.,
Which were like God
of death .
Went to the garden where
sages,
Who were
personification of Vedas lived,
And the lord of the day also went to his home.
2.Sarabangan pirappu neengu padalam
(The chapter on
death of Sarabanga)
( Rama then goes
to meet Sarabanga. At that time Indra had come to take Sarabanga to the land of Brahma. The sage refused as he only wanted to attain salvation by merging
with God. Rama enters there at that
time. Indra prays to Rama .Sarabhanga
and his wife enter the fire and get
salvation.
In Valmiki
Ramayana , Sarabanga did not want to go to Brahmaloka because he wants to meet Rama. After meeting Rama he directs him to the hermitage of Sutheeshna and attains salvation. There is no mention
of Sarabanga ‘s wife in Valmiki Ramayana
)
2587.Along with Sita who was like a flowering branch of Kurava
flowers ,
And Folded Kongu
buds , they reached the place where
,
Sage Sarabhanga was doing penance in the forest
,
With a smell of honey
from the well grown maramara plants
And reached that
place when the night was about to fall.
2588.When those
two holding a red spear walked that way
,
And reached that
place , Indra with thousand eyes ,
Which were looking like a fully open flowers even
at that night time,
Reached that
hermitage in that forest.
2589.That Indra
was greatly lustrous like
the combination,
Of the light
radiating from the ornaments of
Deva maidens,
Who walked like
swan and the spread
of the streaks of lightning.
2590.Indra was one
whose eyes which were like bees
enjoyed ,
The prettiness
of the flower like eyes of
peacock like deva maidens,
And whose ears enjoyed the
honey like music,
Which flowed from the
Veena of Narada called the Mahathi.
2591.He had the fame of performing one hundred
Aswamedha,
Sacrifices as per
the rules given in the scriptures ,
And one who wears the golden heroic anklets which is
saluted,
By all the devas
except Lord Vishnu, Shiva and
Lord Brahma.
2592.That
Indra with his wife who was like
Goddess Lakshmi,
Sitting on a red lotus
rode on the white tall
elephant Iravatha ,
Who creates scare
and has great rut flow from three
different spots ,
And is similar to
Lord Shiva who sits on the great
mountain spread like silver.
2593.That Indra
had the white Royal umbrella which appeared,
To be the huge
lustrous heaven taking the
shape of an umbrella ,
And made the moon
whose cool rays spread
and shine everywhere, shy and ,
Loose its luster feeling
that, there was no need of him
any more?
2594. That Indra who
was near to the huge elephants in eight directions,
Which had the
clear gum of rut and who
in very many close battles,
Defeated the
Asuras who have lost their speed
and determination
And had obtained and
great fame and had the white chowries looking up.
2595. That Indra who was similar to Goddess Lakshmi, who lives,
In the very
famous chest of Lord Vishnu who holds the
holy wheel,
Who is an expert in war, and who is having a very lustrous crown ,
Which gives a
place to stay of the sun god
travelling,
On a chariot with one
wheel and has red coloured rays.
2596.Indra was one who wore armlets which shine like
the,
White teeth of
cool smile of Goddess Vijayalakshmi
.
And who had greatly
lustrous shirt which
shines,
Like the red Manikhya
gems which shine by its rays.
2597.Indra who
shines like a rainbow which shines like ,
Luster of several
thousand very good quality Manikhya
gems ,
And the luster
emanating from the collection
of old ornaments ,
Which all join
together and rises up together.
2598. Indra
was the one with a sword
which were like the,
Eyes of Deva maidens
, which had fought with
fishes and became victorious,
And had a
flower garland which had the
divine scent of honey ,
Which did not have any
match in the entire world.
2599.Indra has the weapon called Vajrayudha
which has a small tip,
Similar to the end of paddy and which could not
be destroyed,
By Ravana who was
wearing gem garlands which shine,
Like the very
lustrous sun , when it was thrown at him for gaining victory.
2600.Indra went
and stood before Sarabhanga’s
hermitage and there,
He was received by the sage of great penance and taken inside,
And did all that
was necessary to be done to a guest and asked,
“Why have you come here?” and that Indra
,
Who was wearing the non spilt golden anklets spoke as follows.
2601.”Oh sage of great penance who has a golden colour
matted hair,
Realizing that
the great penance done by you is greatly rare ,
Lord Brahma has summoned you to go to his world ,
And so please
depart so that you can go to that land.”
2602.”Oh sage who
is like my father , that Lord
Brahma ,
Who has created
all the living beings of the world ,
Has given you the
great chance of living in his
land,
And that land has been attained only by the penance which
cannot be destroyed,
And if you come
there. Lord Brahma would receive
you.”
2603,”You are greatly old and know that , the Sathya loka ,
The land of Brahma is better than all other worlds ,
Even without my telling you and so please .
Come there with your wife
“ and when Indra told like this,
The great sage
said, “I cannot agree for that.”
2604.”oh lord whose fame cannot be described properly by words ,
Would I attain the
positions which are not stable due
to,
The temporary karma ?I do not like to attain that inferior position,
As you know that
the rare penance that I did has passed through many eons.”
2605.”Oh Lord who wears sturdy anklets, What you
have said ,
Is not something
that should be talked about
And is a state t hough
achieved is considered as not achieved, What is the need to talk more?
And I understand that because you have come my life has come to an end.”
2606.”Oh Indra who
owns the heaven, I would attain that salvation,
Which is not for a short period, which does not shift me from one place to another,
That which does not reduce over time, which does not go
on increasing,
Whose form does not change and that
which cannot,
Be destroyed even
if all the five elements perish.”
2607. When the sage
was telling like this , those valorous
ones,
Who hold a strong
and great bow , knowing the reason ,
For the tumultuous
sound there , stood there and thought ,
“What are the things
that are happening
here”?”
2608-2609.Having
seen the rocking Iravatha
elephant with,
Four tusks which
shine like big diamonds and ,
By that , understanding
that the king of devas,
Has come to this
world and is with the sage of great penance,
Rama made the
Sita who is like a deer and his
younger brother ,
To wait in that garden which is full of flowers , and ,
Reached inside the hermitage like a bull
and like a big lion.
2610.That king of
the devas seeing the fruit of all
Vedas ,
Standing on this earth
who has eyes which were like
lotus ,
And was looking
like a black sun and
looked at him,
With great depth
using all his one thousand eyes,
2611.Seeing him he was
pained to see him in that forest,
And saluted that
leader of men , leader of all Brahmins,
By his head which
regularly saluted him ,
By falling on the
earth and catching his feet with his long arms.
2612. Seeing Rama
who by destroying his enemies in
the battles filled with flags ,
By teaching him meaning of the
limitless words of the sea of Vedas
By daily
leading in the very good path of great Dharma daily,
By giving wealth,
by granting salvation , by becoming an armour,
Without others realizing
it , by becoming the soul , by becoming the eyes,
By becoming true penance
, by becoming the endless true wisdom,
He forgot himself
, stood near him and like one,
Who did not know
his greatness started praying to him.
2613.”Oh light which stands mixed and not mixed in everything,
Oh Lord who is the friend of all sages who have got rid of all attachments,
Oh Lord who is the store house of all graces which helps one to cross this life,
Oh Lord who can
be understood by the proper behavior as
per the Vedas,
Oh Our father who
has come here as per your
assurance to us,
When we came and
prayed your holy feet for protecting
from our enemies,
Is it proper that
your lotus like soft feet is touching
this rough earth of the forest?”
2614. “Oh god of
all devas who sleeps in the big ocean of
milk ,
You do not have enemies nor friends , no difference between ,
Light and darkness nor have you anything above or below you ,
You do not have youth nor old age, you do not have beginning , middle and end,
By time you do not
have anything before you or after you.
When your old state is like that , if you do not carry the big bow ,
And do not walk
giving pain to your red feet and not protect us,
Will bad name
come to you? Is there
anything that ,
You get out of
doing these acts? Nothing, is it not?”
2614.”Even if the
four faced Brahma born in the lotus from
your belly,
Who measures all
these faultless worlds
, measures you ,
For several eons without stopping , your greatness cannot be measured.
Oh Lord whose great good characters never
diminish over time,
In the earlier days
making the earth as the pot , the sea water as the cool curd,
The big Mandhara
mountain as the churner you
churned ,
Making your lotus like hands pain and gave the nectar ,
Which came out of it to all the devas , and were
not,
The asuras who
churned with us your slaves?”
2615.”Oh Lord who
was one in the beginning , split from that to several later,
Became intelligence , soul and the body and
becoming that,
Which is to suit
the conditions at the time of the
final deluge,
Later taking the
form of various worlds you became
,
The matchless new
growth of the very
great wisdom ,
Oh Lord who completely
solves the problems of people like us,
You save the
people who do good acts and
destroy ,
Those who do sinful deeds
, Is it not true that ,
Even those ever unstable sins were also created by you?
2617.”Oh Lord , who is our father , in
earlier days due to the trick played ,
By the very strong limitless
illusion , mixing with
those whose wisdom was jaded ,
Losing the normal
wisdom we said to you, “That you are not the ultimate God”,
And also , “You are God” , when we were suffering with sorrow,
And due to the our past good karma , Those seven primeval sages ,
Crossed the fire and took an oath that, “all the worlds were,
Situated within you”
and you cleared our doubt ,
Who were not knowing
who was the ultimate god.”
2618.That Indra who had the long golden crown after praying ,
Rama in this way and many other ways , saluted him,
And understanding clearly what was happening there ,
He looked at the sage who was equal to him and told,
“Please be kind enough to give leave for me to go
“.
2619. Understand the state of the mind of Indra by his divine eyes,
The sage received the God of all devas Rama and that Rama
who came like that,
Saluted his feet ,
the sage shed tears of love and ,
They all entered
the hermitage of that great saint.
2620.After
welcoming both Sita as well as
Lakshmana and ,
Wishing long
life To Rama whom
Sarabanga understood ,
As That God who does yogic sleep on the ocean of milk,
After visiting that sages home , just before the deluge.
2621.And there
Rama as well his lady , with the eye of the deer,
Listened to the words of Dharma as told by Sarabanga,
And they stayed
awake till that night came to an
end.
2622.That Sun who
had blowing luster and the light which
shines,
For the sake of spreading his light
in to all the four directions,
Spread
countless rays which were like the sharp swords,
Exposed to sun
light and using that collection of his
rays ,
Started
removing the blanket of
darkness covering the world.
2623,At that time
that sage Sarabanga took a clear decision to give up,
His life in front of Rama by entering in to the fire , and as per Sastras,
Built up a
burning fire and asked Rama ,
“Please give me leave.”
2624. That Rama who held the strong bow seeing
that able ,
Cultivator of Vedas
asked, “what do you want to do?,
Please tell me”
that sage said “Oh consort of
Lakshmi ,
I wanted to enter the fire so that I get salvation ,
And so please give
me leave “ , then Rama told.
2625.”Oh sage who is
wearing the matchless hide of a deer on his chest.
Why are leaving
your soul as soon as I
reached here?” , then
That sage who due to his strength of penance destroyed,
The power of God of love who has a fish flag,
Due to the joy in leaving his body told the following words.
2626,”Oh heroic one
, I am one who has done various ,
Types of penances
and I knew that you would be
coming to this place ,
And as per my fate
both types of my karma has
vanished and due to that,
You came here to
give your blessings to me ,Now I have
nothing more left.”
2627. “Oh strong one
, Indra came here and told me ,
“I have given you, life in Brahma loka till it is destroyed ,
And so please stay there.” But I did not want to live
there ,
And I would try my best
to attain that salvation which never ends.”
2628. That sage
who knew the Vedas which did not talk
of rules ,
And had the highest
knowledge of that ultimate
God,
Said, Because of that
grant me that salvation” and then,
Along with his wife
entered the burning fire and
attained salvation.
2629.Lord Brahma who sits on the scented lotus flower
,
Devas, sages and
others who were able to know ,
What is going to happen
in future , were able
to,
Understand the
good and bad Karma by their
wisdom,
And were able to
attain the salvation they want at the
end.
2630. if we know that
the amount of greatness one
attains,
Just by thinking
about Rama who was the one who swallowed,
All globes and all the words without any one knowing
it ,
Is beyond the possibility of estimation ,can any one ,
Say how much greatness
that person attains ,
Who is able to see
that God himself before his
death?
3.Agathiya Padalam
The chapter on
Agasthya
(Rama goes to the hermitage of Agasthya
. Agasthya presents Rama with
many divine weapons. Rama decides to
move south from where the Rakshasas are coming. Sage Agasthya advices
them to go and stay in the hermitage
at Panchavati.
The chapters in
Valmiki Ramayana on Sita’s advice to
Rama against indiscriminate attack of
Rakshasas and his reply to her is not found here)
2631.Those sweet lads
who had big bent bows ,
After seeing the
end of the sage Sharabanga,
Became sad and
with a sorrowing mind ,
Along with Sita who was
like a flowering branch,
Went away from the hermitage of that
saint with great sorrow.
2632. They with joy
crossed several trees , Several places ,
With big pretty stones , several rivers which had
waves ,
Several mountain
with streams flowing from it ,
Several gardens
with lots of leaves and several
sweet places.
2633.Those
sages of the Dandaka forest like ,
The Valkilyas who
were created by Brahma ,
Saints with shaved
heads and saints who do not talk ,
And other saints , saw Rama and mentally became happy.
2634.Those sages
who were suffering because
the asuras,
Who had anger which was like fire , troubled
them,
And they did not
have any method to control them,
Became like trees in a
burning forest which got,
Water mixed with nectar
made them all put new leaf.
2635, .Those sages
who were even greatly scared to
tell,
Even the
names of those Asuras
who were growing ,
More and more powerful
and were very strong,
Were like young calves
in the burning forest ,
Who saw their
matchless mother cow returning.
2636.Those sages
who were suffering due to
enmity,
With the asuras
with very cruel acts , since ,
They did not have
capacity to fight with them ,
Had become greatly worried and they ,
Who were all
drowning in the sea of asuras,
Seeing Rama, felt that
they have got a ship now and
became happy.
2637. Those
saints who saw Lord Rama properly
,
Making the penance done by them with effort giving
results difficult to get,
And with their great wisdom helping them ,felt as if
,
That they have got freedom from the
big prison of sorrow due to their
cruel birth .
2638.They who were
doing great penance so that,
They can give whatever
is desired to those who need it ,
Due to their
strength of patience , had
completely ,
Uprooted the
anger which comes up and up,
And due to that
they got in to trouble due to
those asuras.
2639.When those sages departed and reached that valorous Rama,
Who resembled the
flakes of black cloud , with great ebbing love,
They saluted Rama
individually and blessed him
while saluting him.
2640 .All those sages
took Rama and others to a
hermitage,
Which was sweet to
live and told them, “You please live ,
Happily here
and made all needed
arrangements ,
And went back to
their residences and then ,
Came again to tell Rama , the problems they were
facing by those asuras.
2641.Rama saluted those
sages who had come to see him,
He praised them with love and asked them, “What orders are
,
You giving me now.” And they said .”oh son of Dasaratha ,
Who is an expert in protecting the worlds, be pleased to hear,
The very cruel things
which happened to us.”
2642.”There exist the asuras
who do not have something,
Called mercy and
who have gone far away from Dharma.
Due to their troubling us , we have been forced to leave
,
Good behavior and
slip to bad behavior and ,
Due to this we
have moved far away from the path of penance.”
2643.”Oh Rama who
is an expert in archery, like the deer,
Which live in the forest
with very many tigers ,
We are sorrowing in our mind , day and night
And we have been forced
to move away from good,
Would we able to get freedom this sorrow at any time?”
2644.We are not following
the ritual of penance properly ,
We are not chanting
the Vedas , we are not doing our duty,
To those students
who want to learn Vedas , we are not,
Lighting the very
old fire for Yagnas and we have ,
Moved away from proper behavior and so
,
We have slipped
away being Brahmins.”
2645.”As for Indra
, he is obeying the orders of those asuras,
Taking it on his
mind and head and is behaving like
their servant ,
And so oh
lord , So who are there , who can remove .
Our sorrows except you and you
have come here,
Due to the
power of the penance we did
earlier.”
2646. “Oh son of the king who ruled and protected the entire earth by his power
,
Oh merciful and
valorous one , due
to that sorrow that cannot be removed ,
We are spending all our days in darkness and now you have come
.
Just like Sun and all of us are
under your protection.”
2647 . That Rama
who was born in the clan of the sun said,
“If those asuras do not promise not to trouble
you and,
Surrender to me ,
even if they run away to a world outside earth,
They would die due
to my arrow and so please remove,
This unsuitable
sorrow” and further told.
2648.” It is due
to the good deeds done by
me , that I came to the forest,
After the death of
Dasaratha , after mother Kausalya
becoming sad ,
After my younger brother
Bharata becoming sad and,
After all the
citizens of my city attaining
matchless sorrow”
2649.”If I am not able
to destroy the power of those
base Asuras,
Who are troubling
the sages who do not move away
from Dharma,
Being killed by those Asuras would be better for me
,
And what type of birth do I have ,If I am not useful to
this good work.”
2650.”You who are cultured Brahmins
who recite the Vedas ,
Would see the many headless body of those asuras*
dance ,
And my
tiredness in carrying this
very heavy bow,
As well as the completely filled up
quiver would get reduced.”
*One
headless body would dance if 1000 soldiers are killed.
2651. “Those who protect the cows, Those who protect the Brahmans,
Those who protect
poor people and those who protect any
one ,
And who die when
they are doing that are the only ones,
Who are saluted
by those Devas , who
live in heaven.”
2652.”Even if Lord Subrahamanya who killed Soorapadma
,
Or Lord Vishnu
who killed enemies with lustrous
wheel,
Or Lord Shiva who
destroyed the three cities are guarding
them,
If they are moving in sinful path and not following Dharma ,
I would uproot
them all and so do not be scared” .
he said.
2653. When they heard
these words of protection from Rama,
With ebbing joy , they
who were having great love,
Lost all their sorrow
and they who were having a
rotating staff,
And who were experts
in singing Vedas danced with joy
and told.
2654.”Oh Lord , If
you become angry , even if thirty
crore worlds,
Which are like these worlds come and oppose you all together
,
They are not equal to you and for that our wisdom is the witness.”
2655 “.Because it is like that for
all the time that you
spent in this forest,
You will see to it that
no sorrow whatsoever approaches
us ,
And please live here happily “ and when they said this,
That great one who is the son of the great
king Dasaratha
saluted the feet
of all those sages and continued to live there.”
2656. Those sons
stayed there without any sorrow
,
For another ten years
with great satisfaction of the mind,
And when those sages
after great thought told them,
“Please go and meet the great sage Agasthya , they,
Departed from there
With Sita having crescent like forehead.
(Some versions
call the above portions as Dandakaranya
Padalam
And the
rest as Agathiya Padalam)
2657.Walking through pits in mountains and
high bamboo forests,
Through
continuously going small paths
slowly and slowly,
They reached the
garden without sorrow of the lustrous Sutheeshna.
2658. Those Rama and Lakshmana who had no pride in their mind ,
Saluted the sun
like lustrous soft feet of the
sage Sutheeshna,
And he said to them,
“please stay here.” And obeying
it ,
All the three of
them stayed in that garden full of
flower scent.
2659. When they were saying there, that sage after
performing ,
All hospitalities
to Lord Rama told him “oh great one
,
What an amount of penance I have done , for making you,”
Stay here and
Rama with love replied to that great sage.
2660.” Among the
first sages who were born in the clan of Brahma
,
Who else is
there like you who have succeeded in penance .
And who are there
like me who lead a life of a householder,
Who have got the blessings and grace from a sage like you?”
2661.To the words
of Rama who was an expert in
usage of simile,
As reply that sage
who had done penance from
earlier days told,
“Becoming my great guest
who has not been wasted ,
You have become one who can take the results of all my penance .”
2662. Rama then told Sutheeshna who was an expert in all Vedas ,
“Oh leader, how easy
is to get your mercy by simple
penance.
I have only to tell you
that I have a shortcoming in my mind.
That so far I have not
been able to see the great sage
Agasthya.”
2663.”Oh great one, You have thought of only something good,
For even earlier I
wanted to tell you
about the same thing .
So please go to hermitage
of Agasthya and meet him ,
And after meeting
him , there would be no more wants in your mind.”
2664.”Also
he would be wanting you to
pay a visit ,
And would become happy
by your visit and so,
You please go and reach Agasthya and oh great one,
Meeting Agasthya
is good for the devas and good
for all others to.”
2665.”He then told him clearly the way to go to the hermitage ,
Of sage Agasthya
and told him his limitless
blessings ,
Rama saluted the
lotus like feet of that sage
crowded by bees,
And from that hermitage which had streams of honey
flowing from hives,
Rama and others
went speedily towards Agasthya ’s hermitage .
2666.Sage Agasthya
who had measured the world like
Lord Vishnu ,
Who measured the
three worlds using language of tamil ,
Understanding
that Rama and others have reached that place ,
Like the sea ebbing
with joy attaining the fourteen
worlds ,
Received Rama who
can grant any boon and he saluted him.
2667.”The devas
once upon a time , when the asuras hid
themselves in the sea,
Thinking that they will never get destroyed the devas called
“Oh sage You did
very great penance , Please shower your grace on us.
“
And when they begged you like this and knowing their sorrow ,
You took all the
waters of all the seas and just drank it ,
And later when
those devas requested you,
To release the water again and you again filled up the sea.”
2668.That sage took all the pure water
of the sea .
And later released
them all and due to
that became a dwarf,
And was called by others
as dwarf sage and he
with joy ,
Ate all the body of a cheating Asura called Vatapi ,
And destroyed the
problem of all the people of the world.
2669.”He was the one who saw to it that the sages
of the world,
Who practice Yoga
are not disturbed and when asked
by the devas ,
As to the path to cross Vindhya mountains
, stood on the top of that
mountain,
Which was
surrounded by long series of
clouds and was touching the sky.
Like an elephant and pressed it so that
the mountain went down to
Patala.
2670.Once upon a time when the northern side of the world tilted down,
As per the
direction of Lord Shiva who wears
many a serpents,
Which told, “Oh Agasthya who in spite of growing old .
Has not got tired ,
you go and stand in the southern side”
Went to the south
and reached the Malaya mountain,
Which was touching the sky , and remained there,
He being equal to
lord Shiva, the world attained its
balance.
2671. And he took
the Tamil language from Lord
Shiva
Who holds the axe
and who had on his
forehead ,
An eye that spits
fire , learned it painstakingly,
And split it in to that which can be learned with great difficulty ,
And that which is
used by highly placed people of society
,
And gave it
to the world in the
form of Wisdom,
Poems , usual
usage and by the ritualistic roots
2672.That sage
thinking that he would be able to see Rama,
Who has been thought as that thing
which is in sky , in land ,
In several other worlds
and in Vedas , with his own
eyes ,
That same day and
became one with a very happy mind.
2673, After
grinding the other books which are equal to the Vedas
which are chanted loud, in the mortar
of best knowledge ,
And searching
it as the knowledge
of that ultimate God,
Whose
greatness cannot be even understood by Lord Brahma,
Would stand before
him and talk with him and he became happy.
2674.Thinking that Rama who is the doctor who is going to uproot
.
The poison of Asuras who like bad Karma never
go away,
Has already come
there , which would
make ,
The devas
survive , the great sages survive and
ensure,
That all
Brahmins would stand steadfast in Dharma
,
And that
Agasthya became bold
to face everything.
2675.Those
Asuras , whenever they need food ,
Used to boil the trees which are also beings
and eat them,
And Agasthya who
was anxious to see Rama
,
Who he knew would
use his thunder and great anger
Put out
the forest fire like
Rakshasas,
And has come like rain
which is coming from
clouds .
2676.Agasthya who
brought the river in his water pot,
For the good
of eight directions ,
seven worlds ,
And all living
beings seeing that Rama was coming towards him,
Shed tears of
joy from his lustrous lotus like
eyes.
2677.The Rama who
came there fell at his feet and saluted
him,
And that
Agasthya who got great fame by telling grammar of Tamil,
With tears of
joy flowing his eyes
hugged with love Rama ,
And told him sweet
words like, “Your coming has been good.”
2678.With Brahmins
reciting various type of Vedic chants,
With saints of
great penance with love surrounding
,
And sprinkling
water from their pretty water pot ,
And with flowers
being showered on them,
Agasthya took Rama and others to his cool garden.
2679.Rama after
entering with the pleased mind
in to the garden,
Participated in
the feast given by the sage and then
Agasthya ,
Joyfully told “Oh
lord of mercy , having come to my
home ,
Where great penance has been done , You have made my penance fruitful.”
2680.Rama saluted the sage who told like that and
said,
Your grace has not been received by the devas, by persons ,
Who have done the
penance that needs to be done by
them ,
And by great
sages, but I have received
your grace ,
And so I have become one who has won over
all the world,
And I do not
think that there is anything that I have to achieve.
2681.And then sage Agasthya who was similar to Lord Shiva
,
Who wears the crescent on his high head , Started telling,
“Oh Rama who has good characters which are liked by
all ,
Having heard that you have come to Dandakaranya ,
I was happily thinking that one day you will visit
here.”
2682.”Oh Lord , please stay here for if you are here ,
You would be able to complete the great penance that you wanted to do,
And if the
asuras with greater cruelty were to come here holding a sword,
You would destroy them and make them fall and
The sorrow of the sages
like me who are living here would
vanish.”
2683.”Oh son of Dasaratha who ruled all over the earth,
Now Vedas would get revived, the laws of
Manu would be established,
All type of Dharmas would get established, The devas
,
Who were in bad times
due to cruelty of Asuras would become great ,
The Asuras would
go down , The seven worlds would leave well,
There is no doubt about these and so you live here” Agasthya told.
2684.Rama said .”
Oh Sage who follows Vedas , I have decided to destroy,
All the
Asuras who do cruel acts and make all others happy ,
And so I feel that my going to south wherefrom they come ,
Would help me destroy them. What is your desire?”
2685.Then
Agasthya told ,”you have told what is appropriate ,
The bow that is here
with me was once used by Lord Vishnu
,
And is being worshipped
by me and all the three
worlds ,
Take this bow for me
as well as sharp arrows and matchless quiver.
2686.He also gave him a
rare sword , which is
greater than,
All the three
worlds in a plate of balance
and also gave him,
The matchless
bow which was used by Lord
Shiva,
Who had the form of fire
and bent the Meru in to a bow.
2687. “Oh son,
there is a place called Panchavati
,
With tall trees going straight with huge mountains ,
With tall heaps of
sand hills , With cool gardens,
With large number of bunches of flowers
,
And surrounded by
rivers with jumping waves ,
And on a small
hill , and there is a residence there.”
2688. In Panchavati
there are Banana trees giving sweet fruits,
There are red
paddy plants , with
lustrous tips,
There are flowers
from which honey flows ,
There are divine
rivers there like river Cauvery,
And there huge stroks to play with this gold like Sita.
2689.Agasthya said,”Now
you go there and live there “
And Rama of the colour of cloud saluted Agasthya and,
Took leave from
him followed by Sita
who spoke ,
Like Sugar syrup
and his younger brother Lakshmana,
And walked speedily with mind of Agasthya
following him.
4.Chadayu kaan Padalam
Chapter on
seeing of Jatayu.
(On the way to Panchavati they meet Jatayu, the king of hawks , the son of Aruna and very close friend
of Dasaratha. As soon as Jatayu
heard that Dasaratha is no more ,
he wanted to give up his life. And at
the request of Rama decided to live and
protect them while they are there. They go and start living in a hermitage near Godavari river,
In Valmiki
Ramayana , Jatayu tells them how all the
different type of beings were created
in this world. There is also a
very detailed description of Dandaka forest in winter in that Ramayana.)
2690.Then they
walked several Kadhams.(1.16 km) ,
The way was dense with several rivers as well as,
Continuous
mountain ranges which appeared like relations,
They crossed several forests with such mountains ,
And then they
saw Jatayu , the king of vultures.
2691.Jatayu was like
the gold melted in fire ,like
The Sun rising from Udaya mountain which lights
.
All the directions of the entire world
using .
Dense lustrous
rays spreading like wings.
2692.Jatayu was
like the Mandhara mountain
, which
Was once
established by the devas in the limitless sea of milk,
And was the shining moon light sitting
on huge ,
Black mountain ,
long , long ago.
2693.With
prettiness of black sky fading
away , emitting red colour
,
From his gem like
legs , Jatayu was sitting on the
,
Huge blue mountain
like a very long chain
of corals.
2694Jatayu
was one with a pure heart , was one
with ,
A great knowledge
which consisted of great
education ,
As well as great boldness , He was personification of
truth ,
He was extremely
sharp and intelligent , was like ,
A minister who
was like a wise minister in a council,
And had a very small
eyes which could see great distance.
2695. Jatayu had
a sharp nose which was like a goad ,
Held by Indra
sitting on the small eyed
Iravatha ,
Which had been sharpened by rubbing it on trees,
With which he used to dismember the cruel
asuras ,
Holding a sword
which would be eaten by Yama
like a feast,
And he himself would the
left over after he
eats.
2696.That Jatayu
was like the sun god who rules over,
The nine planets
and was shining like a holy wheel,
And he had a
necklace of nine gems and
had a crown,
Which shined like Sun atop the top of
mount Meru.
2697.Jatayu was like
the cluster of fame which cannot be described by words.
Was the son of
Aruna who comes for destruction of
night ,
And one who has
spent several eons just like a day time
which passes quickly.
2698. Seeing Jatayu sitting on a huge mountain and seeing
that mountain,
Has crashed deep
in to the earth unable to bear his
weight ,
And who appeared
as very strong and valorous ,
those brothers ,
Approached and neared
him with mind full of doubt.
2699. Those two
brothers who were wearing heroic anklets ,
Decided that he
was an ignorant Asura who had come,
There in search of
his own death and if he is not an
Asura,
They suspected he should be the very powerful Garuda .
2700.And that Jatayu
, seeing them with huge
bows ,
And wearing heroic anklets , understood that they,
Were not sages who have cut of the two types of Karmas ,
And as they were holding
bow and having matted hair ,
He thought that
they were devas and had a doubt.
2701.He thought , I often see Indra
and other devas ,
Lord Vishnu, the boon
giver Brahma and Lord Shiva with
an axe,
Would not hide themselves from me as I see them always.
2702.”I have seen
the god of love endowed with prettiness ,
And I do not
think that God of love is comparable ,
These heroes with
red eyes like lotus flower
petals,
And endowed with long arms , with dust ,
Attached on
their lotus like soft
feet.”
2703. And further
thinking that , these
lads are both having
The measure less
proper signs of masculinity , and
appear ,
To have the ability
to own the entire world ,
And have come along
with a lady who is comparable ,
To Goddess Lakshmi
and further thought ,
“I am not able to guess
who they are.”
2704.He further
thought , They who are like blue and gold,
Mountains , have a chest where the Goddess
of victory lives ,
And those
valorous ones look like my friend Dasaratha ,
Who was blessed
with all rare
good qualities.
2705.Then that Jatayu who was
thinking various things in his
mind,
And who was greatly liking those valorous ones
with cruel weapons,
Asked them “ Oh bull like lads who hold a huge powerful bow, who are you
both?
Please reply me
in a fashion that , That I would
understand it clearly .”
2706.When he asked them like that , they
who do not speak,
Anything but the truth
said that they were sons of Dasaratha,
Who was ruler
of all the earth which is surrounded by the sea,
And who was
wearing the heroic anklets.
2707.As soon as they told him like that that Jatayu
who had,
Ocean like joy ,
came down from that mountain top
wanting to hug them,
And asked, “ Do
both great shoulders of Dasaratha
who wears .
A scented and big
garland , continue to be healthy?”
2708.When Rama
said that Dasaratha had attained
heaven protecting the oath,
That cannot be forgotten
, Jatayu became greatly
disappointed that ,
Dasaratha was no more
and just like being sleepy lost
his conscience .
2709.Those two
who were hugged and lifted by that
great one ,
Washed his face by their tears and that
king of vultures,
Who got back his
soul that seemed to have
gone out ,
Became very depressed
and rambled as follows.
2710.”Oh king of kings
, Oh enemy of all lies , Oh ornament for truth,
Oh Home of fame ,
your charity that that
merits praise ,
Your white royal umbrella
, your patience to your Karpaga tree,
With changed character
of not denying
charity to any one who asks
,
, The moon the lord of stars , the world that is surrounded by the sea
,
The great charity
that you gave to all those who beg you and me
Have all been left
alone . Where have you gone?”
2711. “Oh
leader , who has a white umbrella which gave ,
Nectar like grace
and prettiness to all beings to earth,
Having the security
to the earth surrounded by sea
getting stopped
Did you leave the
world ,see the friendly heart of me who
does not have stability,
And I am still alive
because I have been born as an
animal,
Due to sins committed in early births and am not following the Dharma of
friendship.”
2712.”Oh Dasaratha
who has a pretty mind without
any guilt ,
When you like the churner which breaks the curd killed
Sambarasura ,
Who was giving sorrow to the beings of the world , you said ,
Making the
world scattered with soft
dust and surrounded by the sea that,
“You are the body and I am the soul”, and your words will
not change ,
But with soul
lying here , the ignorant Yama has taken the body to the heaven.”
2713.”Instead
of immediately falling in
fire and dying , as soon as I heard his death,
Making my great fame increase , like the innocent
women if
I fall on earth and cry,
Would that be proper”
saying this Jatayu got up from
his faint like one who got knowledge,
Looking at Rama
and Lakshmana told, “oh
sons who own ,
All the seven
worlds , please hear”
and then he started talking in
sequence.
2714.”oh young lustrous
lads , I am the son of Aruna and
have the ability ,
To go to all the world
that he goes and I am great sweet friend of Dasaratha,
Who using his kingship weakened
the darkness of enmity from
everywhere ,
I was born at the time when the devas and others
were being created,
And I am the younger
brother of Sampathi who was the
king of vultures.
2715. When Jatayu told this story of his those
Rama and Lakshmana ,
Who had
famous and strong shoulders
equal to mountains ,
With hands folded in salutation due
to their love and sorrow ,
Had their lotus like
eyes filled with tears and felt like seeing ,
Their father , Who
had gone to heaven, due to them.
2716.He hugged using his
wings , the sweet to hug
lads and said,
“Oh sons, please perform the after rites
for me,
Because I find it difficult to sweetly carry this body of mine ,
After my
friend who along with me was like the same soul in two bodies
And if I do not
enter the fire now itself and die
,
I cannot
bear this sorrow of mine forever .
2717.”You who are capable of protecting us all from danger,
And one who would be willing to help us , without
desiring,
To sacrifice
truth , want to die If our
leader would die leaving us,
Who would be there
whom we can request for
support.”
2718.”OH sir, Who never
moves away from the laws of
Dharma ,
Leaving our parents with whom we have never parted ,
Leaving the city of Ayodhya with plenty of cool
water and prosperity ,
When we have come and
got out of the sorrow due to
meeting you,
Would you leave us in this state and embrace death?”
2719.When they told him like this , That Jatayu whose mind was,
Disintegrating ,
looking at those valorous ones standing
before him,
Said, “If my entering the fire is not agreeable for you,
Then, after you reach back Ayodhya I would reach Dasaratha in heaven.”
2720.Then that Jatayu asked them, “If the king has gone to heaven,
Why is it that your valorous have come here without
protecting your kingdom?
What other sad
things happened to you? Since my
mind is burning ,
Without any stability
, Please tell about it clearly
and in sequence.”
2721”Oh heroic ones holding well sharpened lustrous
spears,
If sorrow has been caused to you by either devas,
asuras ,
Or the people of serpent world , I would kill them,
Get back your
kingdom and then give it back to you.”
2722.As soon as
the father like Jatayu told them like
this ,
Rama the husband of Sita, looked at
his younger brother ,
And he told Jatayu that
these happened due to,
Their step mother who was a lady and told in detail,
Without leaving anything, the sad news,
Which was like the
huge ocean with limitless sound.
2723.Hearing that
Jatayu looking at Rama
told ,
“Oh greatly charitable one who established ,
The truthfulness
of your father , obeyed ,
The orders of your step mother with respect ,
And who helped your brother with wealth of kingdom,
Who in the world
can do all these except you , who are my father?”
2724. Then Jatayu
hugged with love Rama with lotus like eyes ,
Smelled his head, and
shedding tears and told him,
“Oh son You gave
me and your father limitless fame ,
And so you are
one who is really able.”
2725.Again that great Jatayu seeing the fawn like divine Sita wearing bangles,
Asked , “oh son of the emperor , please tell me ,
Who is this pretty lady with a very lustrous forehead.”
2726.Then Lakshmana who was born after Rama
told him,
Events staring from
killing the Thataka who
was like darkness,
To the breaking of
the bow, Rama’s marriage with Sita ,
Reaching of the forest and her sleeping on the grass
and completed.
2727.That Jatayu with a shining hair became happy on hearing that ,
And asked , “Oh princes who wear garland made of petals of flowers ,
You have come away from a prosperous kingdom and
all of you,
With good qualities along with Sita live happily in this forest. I would protect you.”
2728.Rama who lives
in the mind of all beings
looking at Jatayu told,
“Oh leader , There
is a pretty place near the banks
of river Godavari,
Which flows with sound
and has been told by Agasthya as suitable residence ,
For us and so we
would reach that place and
live there.”
2729.Jatayu said, “What that great one told is very good. You please ,
Stay near the watering place and do
great penance and,
So come with me ,
I will show you that place and made
them,
Walk comfortably
in the shade created by his well
spread wings.
2730. After
reaching that place as guided by
the pure hearted Jatayu,
Who is a sinless
one and after he left , those two lads
,
With very huge
bows ready for battle became happy on reaching that garden.
2731.Jatayu who knew well about the greatness of asuras
living there ,
After deep thought
, started guarding his daughter in law with a cloth ,
Tied breasts as
well as his sons, like a bird protecting
its little ones in the nest.
congratulations anna
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