POST 11
Dear sri vaishNava perunthagaiyeer,
In post 9 we saw the `special title' conferred on raamaa as
kim thvaa amanyatha vaidhEha: pithaa mE mithilaa adhipa: |
raama jaamaatharam praapya sthriyam purusha vigraham || 2-30-3
Meaning: What my father, the king of mithila, belonging to the
country of vidhEha, think of himself having got you, as son-in-law, a
woman having the form of a man?"
I mentioned srimadh poundareekapuram swamin has given many points on
this slokam. Now we will see these points.
1. Why seethaa offered this `title'. Since raamaa refused her in
accompanying him to the forest. So seethaa thinking "hey he is my
husband, so I can take some liberty to comment or criticize my
husband" offers this. With that `special liberty' she did it, even
though, she had high regard that raamaa is `brave'.
2. `vaidhEha: pithaa'- father janaka, is one who has come in the clan
of `vidhEha' ? they were all very sincere in their karma anushtaanam.
Bhagavaan krishNa claims in bhagavath geethaa `karmaNai vahi
samsidhdhim aasthithaa janakaadhaya:' ?such a janaka is her father.
For those who are sincere in karmas, they want the wives to be with
them always. No separation is allowed. So seethaa thought "father
janaka will not permit such separation of wife from husband. But here
raama says `I will go alone'. This means karma also will go.
Separation also will be effected". So a comparison with her father on
thekarma anushtaanam front results in the title that `you are a
sthree'.
For a woman, helping in her husband's karma is her prime duty ?
her `karmaa'.
[the wives have to take part in the anushtaanams of husband -
example ? in the agni santhaanam she has to take, divide the rice
held in hand and offer to husband, in turn, for his offer to the
agni - daily twice. If she is not there, no agni santhaanam will take
place ? kindly recollect `gold seethaa idol' was kept by raama while
he did the yagnam].
3. `kim thvaa amanyatha vaidhEha: pithaa ? what he will think `I gave
my daughter to a lady who came in man's garb, also broke the bow. I
also gave my daughter foolishly'.
4. Philosophically thinking - as per slOkam
sa Eva vaasudhEva: ayam saakshaath purusha uchyathE
sthree praayam Ethath sarvam jagath brahma purassaram -
sreeman naaraayanan alone is the purushan, male ? all others are
females only. So my father may have considered you as the female in
the male garb and gave his daughter. So `sthriyam purusha vigraham'.
5. `raama ja amaathram' purusha: vigraham ? if the words are split
like this ? then the meaning is ? hey raama ja ? one who is born to
make other people in this world happy. So you made him happy by
winning me.
Father janaka is happy of having obtained that purusha: as his son in
law and now enjoying great happiness. If you proceed to forest
leaving me behind his happiness also will suffer a dent. So how can
you do that?
6. purusha: - male ? vigraham means kalaham ? if my dad has realized
even a bit that kaikeyee, the step mother, is likely to do this kind
of twisting etc he would not have given me in marriage to you.
raama purusha: vigraham - when he is forest all the rishees and
munees are going to enjoy your manly physical beauty ? of that
purusha: - seethaa thinks `but here I am going to suffer in
separation of you'.
[this is what happened. All rishis and munees wanted to enjoy raama
by a physical union which was later materialized as krishNa and
gOpees. So a foundation laid here]
7. `praapya sthriyam'- this is split as `praapi asthriyam' ? means
one who is not married to any other lady. Thinking that raama is
having only my daughter as his wife, janaka is happy now. As per the
adage "raajaana: bahu vallabhaa: - kings have many wives" ? he has
not checked whether you have another wife in the forest. That is why
you are leaving me here to join that lady in the forest.
8. One who has leant asthraas is called asthree ? visvaamithra is an
asthree, for he taught raamaa several asthrams after thaataka vadham.
Visvaamithra lives in forest.
One who accompanies such an `asthree' [learned person of asthrams] is
also called `asthree'. [that is a specialty of the Sanskrit
language].
Since raama accompanied visvaamithraa to mithilaa, an asthree
accompanying another asthree who likes to live in forest, now seethaa
thinks `hey raamaa you also want to go forest, that too alone. No
wonder'.
9. vEdham says brahmam is male as well female. Raamaa is brahmam.
Maadhavan is the `loka pithaa cha maathaa' as per sreemadh
bhaagavatham. So also raamaa the maadhava is `sthriyam purusha
vigraham'.
10. Seethaa thinks, "The eldest son rightfully gets the kingdom of
his father. This rule or procedure is prevalent here in kosala
kingdom also. When kaikEyee said you leave to the forest by offering
the kingdom to the young one bharatha, instead fighting for your
right like a male, you are running to the forest like a lady of less
guts. So sthriyam purusha vigraham".
Hope the title and the points are enjoyable. Since such a special
title of `sthriyam purusha vigraham' is a consequence or a result
of `breaking the bow' the same is included here in bow's story.
Dhaasan
Vasudevan m.g.
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