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The Ramayana is an ancient Hindu text about Rama, an incarnation of the God Vishnu. It tells the story of the righteous prince Rama and his rescue of his wife Sita after her abduction by the demon king Ravana. I am sorry, we do not have this in Hindi or Kannada. They might be available at archive.org. BAPS Kids - Story Time: Shravan: In ancient India, there once lived a sage named Shantunu and his wife. Both were very old and blind. The couple had a young son.
The ashram of sage Valmiki was situated in a forest on the bank of river Tamsa. In this forest Rama had sent in a chariot his queen Sita along with his brother Laxman.
They all lived here with the sage. In the ashram Sita gave birth to two sons; Luv and Kush. Valmiki taught them different sciences and trained them in the skillful use of war weapons.
Lord Rama once, organised a Yagna; Ashvamegha’, on the banks of river Gomati. To perform this Yagna, the presence of queen Sita along with king Rama was necessary but she lived in the forest.
So the Yagna was performed by placing the golden idol of queen Sita. Rama did not enter another marriage to gain a queen, though the Yagna made it necessary. The horse of the Yagna was sent for supreme victory under the command of Shatrughna. After several victories, the horse came to the ashram of Valimiki. Valmiki was not present in the ashram.
Kush had moved out in search of firewood and Luv saw the horse. Luv knew all the animals that inhabited in the forest but he saw this horse for the first time. He recognized the horse which his guruji had described to him.
On the head of the horse on a gold plate was inscribed, “One who is not ready to accept the king of Ayodhya as his king, should tie this horse and fight with the army.”
Luv read the inscription and laughed at the writer’s ignorance and said, “Let me test the horse that has come to conquer the free forest of Valmiki.” Luv pulled its reins vigorously and tied the horse to the nearby tree.
Within few minutes the army of Shatrughna reached the spot. On seeing the courageous deed of tying the horse to the tree, the soldiers walked to the young prince and said, “Young boy, mind well, this is not a sport, you know that one who ties this horse shall have to fight with us. You are too young, please untie the horse and we won’t punish you.” Luv said, “With full knowledge I have tied this horse.
This is Valmiki’s ashram. I am prepared to fight. Nobody’s rule is allowed here.” So saying he took bow and arrow in his hand. The soldiers also were ready with their bow and arrows. Luv released a mighty arrow and under its spell the whole army went off to sleep.
Shatrughna who was standing at a distance, watched the young prince. He looked at the child with unusual awe. He experienced a queer feeling and got enamored of him. He came near and said to Luv, “Dear child your knowledge of archery is worth of admiration. I am so pleased with the skill displayed by you that I forgive your uncivil behavior to my army.”
At that moment Kush entered. He stood by Luv and said, “Who are you to show mercy on us ‘?” Shatrughna could not tolerate the satrical expression and called the two brothers to fight them out. Both the brothers were ready and came and stood in the battlefield. With the bows and arrows in their hands the two brothers got ready for the fight.
Shatrughna chose two of his valiant soldiers Sugreev and Hanuman, and ordered them to fight. Hanuman entered in the combat first. Hanuman magically extended his tail and trapped Luv. Kush saw this and rushed to free him from it. Sugreev with the help of a huge tree hindered Kush in his efforts to help Luv.
During this time Kush freed himself and gave severe punches to Hanuman. Fainted Hanuman was lying on the ground. Seeing the courage of his brother Kush also got encouraged and lifted Sugreev and the tree, and hurled him on the ground. Both the brothers caught hold of Hanuman’s long tail and dragged him towards the ashram, to display their heroic deed to their mother Sita.
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Sita instantly recognised Hanuman who was chained and pulled by her two sons. She asked, “What have you done ?” Luv replied, ‘The monkey has come with a huge army and a horse. When I caught the horse, the head of the army sent him to fight with me, brother Kush was also present. So both of us gave fight. They wanted the fight and we gave it. The head of the army tried a lot to frighten us.
Do you know, mother, what did they do to frighten us ? They displayed their strength by uprooting a huge tree and with that huge tree in their hands they came to fight with us. Before they could make use of that huge tree we flattened them on the ground.”
With great astonishment she listened to Luv. Sita suddenly recognized that the horse belonged to Rama. She said to her sons, “This horse belongs to Rama, your father, and he is Hanuman a devotee of your father. Leave him immediately and
. free the horse.” Luv said, “Mother, we have simply performed the duty of a Kshatriya. Because they challenged us, we gave a fight to them. We are prepared to give back their horse if is they are unwilling to fight.”
In the meantime Valmiki returned from his journey. Sita narrated her story. Valmiki went to Luv and Kush and asked them to free the horse and hand over it to the army. The enthused army marched ahead triumphantly. In the meantime, Valmiki taught the two young princes the whole of Ramayana and sent them to Ayodhya.
Singing shlokas of Ramayana both Luv and Kush wandered into the streets of Ayodhya. At that moment Rama came to know about them and he heard the whole of Ramayana from them. At that moment, Valmiki came there and introduced Luv and Kush to Rama. On learning the fact that Luv and Kush were sons of Sita, Rama embraced them and said, “I will fetch your mother to this place.” Valmiki brought Sita to Ayodhya.
Rama slays Shambuka
Shambuka (IAST: śambūka) is an interpolation in Valmiki Ramayana.[1][2] According to a version Shambuka, a shudra ascetic, was slain by Rama for attempting to perform penance in violation of dharma, the bad karma resulting from which caused the death of a Brahmin's son.[3]
Rama's killing of Shambuka or even the existence of the character Shambuka is highly disputed. The story is treated as a later interpolation to Valmiki's Ramayana, being created at a later period in opposition to Brahmins.[1][4][5]
Story[edit]
When Rama was ruling Ayodhya, a Brahmin approached the court and told everyone that his young son has died due to the misrule of Rama. Rama immediately called a meeting with all his ministers and enquired about the cause of this. Narada, one of the sages, told him that this has happened due to violation of a rule of penance. Narada informed him that someone from the Shudra varna, who are not allowed to perform penance in this Yuga, is performing a penance due to which the child has died. So Rama went in search of that person and found the place where Shambuka was performing penance. After confirming that Shambuka is indeed a Shudra, Rama killed him. Gods praised Rama for this act of his and congratulated him for protecting their interests and for not allowing Shudra to attain heaven. Brahmin's son returned back to life after it.[1][6]
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Reception[edit]
Authors such as Rabindranath Tagore, Mahatma Gandhi treat the character of Shambukha as interpolation.[7][8] The PushtimargVaishnavite tradition points out that the Ramayana refers to other Shudras, such as Shabari, who lived in the forest. Shambuka therefore deliberately violated dharma in order to get Rama's attention, and attained salvation when he was beheaded.[9] The celebrated Kannada poet Kuvempu, in his play Shudra Tapasvi shows Rama as having to both carry out his duty by punishing Shambuka, and simultaneously protect Shambuka, as a pious and devout sage, from persecution, and thereby turns the story into a critique of Brahminical attitudes and a defense of Rama.[10]
In his seminal work Annihilation of Caste, Ambedkar points out the story of Shambuka while criticizing Chaturvarnya. He argues that not only it is impossible to accurately classify people into four definite classes but that the system of Chaturvarnya faces the problem of the transgressor. He further explains that unless the transgressor is punished, men will not keep to their respective classes i.e. the whole system will collapse. In Ramayana, according to Ambedkar, Rama ensured that transgression did not happen in his kingdom by killing Shambuka.[11][12][13]
Notes[edit]
- ^ abcPaula Richman (2008). Ramayana Stories in Modern South India: An Anthology. Indiana University Press. p. 111. ISBN978-0-253-21953-4.
- ^Indian Literature, Issues 213-218. Sahitya Akademi. p. 163.
- ^Government of Maharashtra, Nasik District Gazeteer: History - Ancient Period'Archived copy'. Archived from the original on 7 November 2006. Retrieved 1 October 2006.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) (text credited to Mahamahopadhyaya Dr. V. V. Mirashi)
- ^An Introduction to Eastern Ways of Thinking. Concept Publishing Company. p. 158.
By now , it can be confirmly said the ' Uttarkand ' of Ramayana is an interpolation of quite later period
- ^Mangesh Venktesh Nadkarni. Hinduism, a Gandhian Perspective. Anne Books. p. 92.
- ^Hari Prasad Shastri (1957). The Ramayana of Valmiki. Shanti Sadan. pp. 1579–1584. ISBN978-0-8542-4048-7.
- ^Gangeya Mukherji. An Alternative Idea of India: Tagore and Vivekananda. Taylor & Francis. p. 83. ISBN9781000083774.
- ^D. K. Misra, Shambhu Lal Doshi, C. M. Jain (1972). Gandhi and Social Order. Research Publications in Social Sciences. p. 14.
Mahatma Gandhi , on the other hand, has regarded this entire story as an interpolation
CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^Motiramji Sastri, Ramayan (in Gujarati) (Ahmedabad, 1961).
- ^'M. Raghava, 'The king and the protector of the devout' The Hindu (26 October 2004).
- ^B.R. Ambedkar (2020). Ambedkar's India. Sristhi Publishers & Distributors. p. 47. ISBN9789387022898.
- ^Aishwary Kumar (2015). Radical Equality: Ambedkar, Gandhi, and the Risk of Democracy. Stanford University Press. p. 292. ISBN9780804794268.
- ^Kurukundi Raghavendra Rao (1993). Babasaheb Ambedkar. Sahitya Akademi. p. 25. ISBN9788172011529.
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