Dear shri Sudarshan,
This is in reply to Part I of your posting.
Knowing the public prosecutor to be an impressive and eloquent advocate, the
Defence had expected much more solid arguments from him. In fact, the
prosecution's submission so far has hardly been able to even scrape at the
concrete wall of the defence arguments, leave alone knock a hole in the same.
The by-now "famous" line, "If Rama did it, it must be correct!" appears to
stand unassailed, despite the prosecution's attempts to demolish it.
I would appeal to the amicus curae and members of the jury to note very
carefully the adept way in which the prosecutor has shifted the scene from the
Agni pariksha, to Uttara Kandam. I would like to emphasize very much and
repeatedly, that the case we have on hand concerns Sri Rama's conduct on the
occasion of Sri Sita's ordeal by fire and is not at all about Her being
abandoned in the woods. I pray to the jury not to be misled by counsel's
skilful attempts to shift the focus from Agni pariksha, where he finds not any
text to support him, to the Uttara Kandam episode.
Members of the jury and Amicus curae, it is a basic principle of jurisprudence
that one must argue one's case on the basis of available facts pertaining to
the instant case alone, and not bring in material irrelevant to the same,
simply because no tenable arguments can be adduced for the current case. If we
are talking about Agni Pariksha, we will continue to do so. If we are to talk
about the Uttara Kanda, we will do so separately and not mix up things merely
for our convenience.
Having cautioned members of the jury against these diversionary tactics, I
would like to point out that even the texts quoted by the learned prosecutor
hardly afford him the requisite degree of support. All these slokas pertain
strictly to Piratti's plight in the woods in the Uttara Kanda, with the Agni
Pariksha episode hardly figuring in them, unless such a "spin" is put on the
impartial Maharshi's words.
And I draw the jury's attention to the careful way in which the prosecutor has
avoided all reference to the Sundara Kanda sloka of Piratti. If you want to
listen to the true Voice of Sita Piratti, placed in context, it is to be found
in Her admission of guilt to Siriya Tiruvadi--
"Mamaiva dushkritam kinchit, mahadasti na samsaya:"
Why doesn't the prosecutor take cognisance of this plain text which is
incapable of embellishment or misinterpretation?
In fact, Sri Mythily emphasises Her admission with the words, "na
samsaya:"(undoubtedly). It is natural that the prosecutor disregards this, for,
if he were to admit the same, it would lay clear to all the truth that the
Public Prosecutor is arguing a case he has dreamed up on his own, with
absolutely no basis for the same in the form of a complaint from the aggrieved
party. Have you ever heard of a prosecution without a complaint? You have a
bizarre instance of it here. It is a case of being more loyal than the King,
for, can anyone in the jury or the listening public say with any element of
certainty that Sri Sita Piratti would ever prefer a complaint against Her
beloved?
All that the much-wronged "traditionalists" have done is to identify the acts
which Piratti Herself considers to be sins, big and small. And without such
"traditionalists", Mr. Public Prosecutor, pray tell us where we would all be in
the matter of finding interpretations to esoteric components of the Scripture,
whether it be the Brahma Sutras or the Dravida Vedam? It is tradition which is
our life line, without which all of us, irrespective of our social, economic or
spiritial standing, would be entirely lost and floundering for the rest of our
lives in this mundane morass, without the guiding light of scriptural wisdom.
So there is nothing wrong, per se, with "traditionalists" and their accounts.
In sum, I am sure that members of the jury would entirely agree with me that
the prosecution has so far been unable to prove anything and has been forced to
resort to diversionary tactics, much in the manner of the hapless Hamilton
Burger, the District Attorney in many of Erle Stanley Gardner's "Perry Mason"
novels.
Let me deal with Part 2 of the Prosecution Counsel's averments later.
dasan, sadagopan
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