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SrImate raângarAmAnuja MahA deSikAya namaH
SrImate SrInivAsa rAmAnuja MahA deSikAya namaH
SrImate VedAnta rAmAnuja MahA deSikAya namaH
SrI raânganAtha divya maNi pAdukAbhyAm namaH
AcArya rAmAmRtam - (from SrI raânganAtha pAdukA dt. July 08 Part1)
English Translation of
SrImad rAmAyaNa upanyAsam in tamizh by SrImad tirukkuDandai ANDavan
As published in SrI raânganAtha pAdukA by
SrI u.ve. nATTEri KiDAmbi rAjagopAlAcAriyAr (Editor of SrI raânganAtha
pAdukA)
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SrImad ANDavan tiruvaDi,
kalyANi kRshNamAcAri
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SrImad tirukkuDandai ANDavanâs SrImad rAmAyaNa upanyAsam
lakshmaNA'gaccha bhadraM te UrmiLAmudyatAM mayA |
pratIcchha pANiM gRhNIshva mAbhUt kAlasya paryayaH ||
(bAla. 73.35)
Janaka mahArAja said, "lakshmaNa! This is a good lagnam! Do pAnigrahaNam with
this UrmiLA".
Them,
tamevamuktvA janakaH bharataM ca abhyabhAshata |
gRhANa pANiM mANDavyAH pANinA raghunandana ||
(bAla. 73.36)
bharata! Do pANigrahaNam with mANDavi!
SatrughnaM cApi dharmAtmA abravIt janakeSvaraH |
SrutakIrtyA mahAbhAho! pANiM gRhNIshva pANinA ||
(bAla. 73.37)
âSatrughna! Take the hand of SrutakIrti!â
VasishThar performed the wedding for all four of them. Can you imagine how
those marriages would have been!
The marriage function was over.
atha rAtryAM vyatItAyAM viSvAmitro mahAmuniH |
ApRshTvA tau ca rAjAnau jagAma uttaraparvatam ||
(bAla. 74.1)
When it dawned the next morning, ViSvAmitra said, "svAmi-s! I am taking leave;
Janaka mahArAjA, daSaratha cakravartI - I am leaving".
The four sons were asked to prostrate to him.
ASIrbhiH pUrayitvA ca kumArAmSca sa rAghavAn |
viSvAmitraM gate tasmin rAjA ca jagatIpatiH |
ayodhyAdhipatiH SrImAn vaidehaM mithilAdhipam ||
(bAla. 74.1, 2)
He gave his blessings to all and left for HimAcalam - jagAma uttara parvatam.
He left for doing penance. Why? He had accomplished his mission of uniting
the divine couples; he can now meditate on them as daivataM dampatI naH and
look for ways to attain salvation. After this, till paTTAbhishekam, there is
no talk about ViSvAmitra in the remaining 21,000+ Sloka-s. He did not even
come for the paTTAbhishekam; he saw that from where he was.
Four days passed by. daSaratha cakravarti said he will take leave. Doesnât
courtesy require that one should say good-bye and leave by oneself!
Janaka mahArAjA said, "okay".
dadau kanyA pitA tAsAM dAsIdAsamanuttamam |
hiraNyasya suvarNasya muktAnAM vidrumasya ca||
(bAla.
74.6,7)
Janaka gave a lot of dowry. He gave silver, gold, blankets, gems, corals,
pearls, male and female servants, elephants etc., and requested daSaratha
cakravarti to take everything with him.
With great happiness, daSaratha cakravarti took his four daughters-in-law. The
chariot started moving. The army started moving. He left for ayodhyA.
gRhapraveSam is going to take place later in a grand way. daSaratha gets into
his chariot and leaves. VasishTha gets into a palanquin and goes.
Suddenly, daSaratha says: âStop the palanquinâ; he saw some bad omens, and
got down. VasishTha asked the reason. daSaratha said that there were bad
omens and asked him what to do.
ghorAH sma pakshiNo vAco vyAharanti tatastataH |
bhaumAScaiva mRgAH sarve gacchhanti sma pradakshiNam ||
(bAla. 74.11,12)
"What svAmi! I do not know what to do! Birds are all making noises, and it
sounds inauspicious! It looks like bad omen to me! On the other hand, all the
animals on the ground are coming around us in pradakshiNam [an auspicious
indication]. What kind of omen is this? I don't understand the reason. What
is going to happen? We see good omens as well as bad omens. What will be the
consequences? I do not know".
It is obviously a difficult situation. There is a SAstram called Sakuna
(omen) SAstram. It is very difficult to predict based on this SAstram. It
says, "If there are a lot of good omens, take them as bad omen; if theree are
lot of bad omens, take it as a good omen".
"atyapaSakunaM Sakunam, atiSakunaM ca apaSakunam"
Too many good omens mean bad omen! Too many bad omens mean good omen! Sakuna
SAstram is a very hard one to interpret.
There is a Slokam. Direct meanings are not given by the Sloka-s. The meaning
will not be easy to figure out as well.
At the time of departure for some place,
akuberapurI vilokanam adharAsUnukaraM param |
ata tat parihAra hetave adamayantIpati locanaM smara ||
Can someone come forward to give the meaning of the Slokam!?
akuberapurI vilokanam â If one looks at âakuberapurIâ when leaving - If
one looks at the object represented by the word that is obtained by adding a-
to the place that is name of âkuberapurI;
adharAsUnu-karam param - the result will be what is indicated by adding the
letter a- to the word representing âdharAsUnu â bhUmiâs sonâ, followed
by the word âkaramâ.
ata tat parihAra hetave â the parihAram (the act for nullifying the effect of
this bad omen) is;
a-damayantIpati locanam smara â Meditate on the one who has eyes resembling
the word that results from adding âa to the word that stands for the
âconsort of damayantIâ.
Here is the decoding of the Slokam!
akuberapurI vilokanam - When one is starting from the house with some purpose
in mind and happens to see 'akuberapuri' (kuberapuri, the abode of kubera is
'alakA'; add an 'a-' in front of 'alakA'; it becomes analakA - a widow). If
you look at a widow as you are starting for some place;
adharAsUnukaram param - add an 'a-' in front of the word representing bhUmi's
son (dharA sunu is bhUmi's son - SevvAi graham â planet Mars, called
ma~Ngalam in samskRt); adding a- to the word ma~Ngalam, one gets the word
âama~Ngalamâ â ama~Ngalakaram - inauspicious. [So far, the meaning is:
âSeeing a widow when one leaves for some place is inauspiciousâ].
ata tat parihAra hetave - what should be done as parihAram [the act that will
nullify the bad effect of this omen] for that?
adamayantIpati locanam smara - add an 'a-' in front of the name of damayantI's
husband (nalan/naLan); it becomes anala.â Thus, âanala locanam smaraâ is
the parihAram specified in the Slokam. âanalaâ means âfireâ. anala
locanan is a reference to the âfire-eyed personâ (ParameSvaran).
âMeditate on ParmeSvaran in order to nullify the effect of the bad omen
resulting from looking at a widow as you leave for some placeâ â that is
the interpretation for the Slokam from Sakuna Sastram! The Sakuna Sastram
does not explicitly say âParameSvaranâ because his name should not be said
explicitly - he is devatAntaram â anya devatA! (slight laughter in the
audience).
It is very hard to predict based on Sakuna SAstram. daSaratha tells VasishTha
- ghorASca ca pakshiNo vAcaH vyAharanti samantataH - When we are starting to
leave to our places for gRhapraveSam, birds are all making very loud and
terrifying sounds! [a bad omen].
But if you look down on the ground, there are good omens.
bhaumAScaiva mRgAH sarve gacchhanti sma pradakshiNam - down on the ground, all
the animals are circumambulating us clockwise [a good omen]!
When akrUrar went to fetch kRshNa, "pradakshiNaM mAm pracaranti amI mRgAH -
says bhAgavatam, and says this is a good omen indicating that akrUrar is going
to be successful in seeing kRshNa.
Kambar describes the above incident of daSaratha asking VasishTha about the
omens :
ninRE neRi uNarvAn, oru ninaivALanai azhaiyA,
'nanRO? pazhudu uLadO? naDu urai nI, nayam' enna
kunRE purai tOLAn edir puLLin kuRi koLvAn
'inRE varum iDaiyURu; adu nanRAi viDum' enRAn
(paraSurAma vadaip paTalam - 6)
Kambar says -
ninRE neRi uNarvAn - predicting Sakunam - reading omens - must be done after
weighing everything. It will depend on the particular instance. VasishTha
bhagavAn looked â in the sky, birds are all creating sounds indicating bad
omen; but, on the ground, animals are coming around in a clockwise fashion
(which is a good omen). kunRE purai tOLAn edir, puLLin kuRi tErvAn - VasishTha
says - " 'inRE varum iDaiyURu adu nanRAi viDum'- a big obstacle is going to
appear for us; but, that will be rectified immediately. Because the birds in
the sky are raising bad omens, the danger will be posed by some deva(s), and
because animals on the ground are producing good omens, that danger will be
overcome by our boys on this earth."
'inRE varum iDaiyURu adu nanRAi viDum' - because of bad omen, a danger will
occur; but, because of the good omen, 'adu uDanE viDum', that will go away -
says kamban in this great pASuram.
ninRE neRi uNarvAn, oru ninaivALanai azhaiyA,
'nanRO? pazhudu uLadO? naDu urai nI, nayam' enna
kunRE purai tOLAn edir puLLin kuRi koLvAn
'inRE varum iDaiyURu; adu nanRAi viDum' enRAn
Suddenly, it became dark. Sand storms started blowing. Have you seen "Andhi"
(sand storm) in Delhi? It was pitch dark. Nothing could be seen in any
direction.
All on sudden, there was a brilliance standing in front of them, holding a bow
and an axe! Who was that?
krodhAgniM jamadagni pIDana bhavaM santarpayishyan kramAt
akshatrAmiha santataksha ya imAM triH sapta kRtvA kshitim |
datvA karmaNi dakshiNAM kvacana tAmAskandya sindhuM vasan
abrahmaNyamapAkarotu bhagavAn AbrahmakITam muniH ||
(daSAvatAra
stotram - 7)
dadarSa bhImasa'nkASam jaTAmaNDala dhAriNam |
bhArgavaM jAmadagnyaM taM rAjarAja vimardinam |
kailAsamiva durdharshaM kAlAgnimiva duHsaham | (bAla. 74.20)
jvalantamiva tejobhiH durnirIkshaM pRthagjanaiH |
skandhe cA''sajya paraSuM dhanurvidyutgaNopamam |
pragRhya SaramukhyaM ca tripuraghnaM yathA puram || (bAla. 74.21)
This person came like the fierce parameSvaran who came to conquer tripurAsuran.
His matted hair was shining with radiance.
irunila mannar tammai iru nAlum eTTum
oru nAlum onRum uDanE
ceru nudalUDu pOgi avarAvi manga
mazhuvALil veNra tiRalOn
peru nilamangai mannar malar mangai nAtar
pula mangai kELvar pugazh SEr
peru nilamuNDumizhnda peru vAyarAgi
avar nammai ALvar peridE!
(tirumangai AzhvAr in periya tirumozhi 11.4.6)
This person killed twenty one generations of kings on this earth, svAmi!
irunila mannar tammai iru nAlum eTTum oru nAlum onRum uDanE - did you count?
irunila mannar tammai iru nAlum eTTum
oru nAlum onRum uDanE
ceru nudalUDu pOgi avarAvi manga
mazhuvALil veNra tiRalOn
Using a single axe, he killed the evil kings belonging to ((2 x 4) + 8 + 4 + 1)
= 21 generations. Why?
kArta vIryArjunan killed this person's father, jamadagni. In retaliation, he
killed twenty one generations of kings, collected their blood as a pond and did
tarpaNam for his father using the hairs of the kings as darbham. Look what
kind of a person this was! He has that much anger in him.
He wreaked vengeance because kArtavIryan killed his father -
vaDivAi mazhuvE paDaiyAga vandu tOnRi mUvezhukAl
paDiyAr araSu kaLai kaTTa pAzhiyAnai, ammAnai
kuDiyA vaNDu koNDuNNak kOla nIlam maTTugukkum
kaDiyAr puRavil kaNNapurattu - aDiyEn kaNDu koNDEnE !
(tiruma'ngai in 8.8.6)
AzhvAr says that he saw that paraSurAmap perumAL in tirukkaNNapuram.
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To be continued â..
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