4/4/2021 0 Comments Pasurappadi Ramayanam Tamil
It is clearly mentioned in the Ramayana that the sage taught it to Lava and Kusha, who were the sons of Rama who were living with him and these two lads sing it in the assembly hall in front of Rama.Valmiki was a hunter who was transformed in to a sage by sage Narada.The restless Valmiki wanted to write an epic and sage Narada requests him to write about Rama.
He agrees and Lord Brahma blesses him saying that he would be by his intuition able to see every incident that took place in the life of Rama. He was confused as to which metere he should adopt for writing this great book. One day he sees a hunter killing the male bird of a bird couple and the female bird cries for its mate.Valmiki is moved and tells a poem Maa Nishada Pratistham Tvam agamah ssvati Samaa Yat Krauncha mithunaad ekam Avadhi Kaamamohitam Oh hunter, you killed one of the pair of Krouncha birds in love, And so for years to come you would never be alive. And this poem (curse) born out of intense sorrow becomes the model for the entire epic of Ramayana. Naturally the first chapter of Ramayana, is the story of Rama in a nutshell as told by Narada called Samkshepa Ramayanam. The entire story of Rama is divided in to six books (kanda) and each Kanda is further divided in to Sargas. Yuddha Kanda ( Book of War ) 128 chapter) The chapters in these books have many slokas(verses) all written in Anushtup meter. The chapters are of differing length and so too are the books. The shortest book with about 2000 slokas is the Bala Kanda and the biggest book is Yudha Kanda with nearly 6000 slokas. Sage Valmiki is an expert in use of Simile and metaphor and almost throughout the narrative, these are used.Valmiki also tells every incident in great detail as he loves to describe. The description of the four seasons in the forest, the great description that Sugreeva gives his monkeys about the path that they have to follow in search of Sita, the descriptions of the fauna and flora throughout the path of Rama are examples of these. Sage Valmiki prefers to concentrate on the story that he is telling about and rarely relates us stories within stories. The exceptions to this is the story of Ganges and birth of Lord Subramanya in the Bala Kanda, stories of the lineage of certain sages like Viswamithra, Rama himself, Ravana etc. It is interesting also note that for valour, Valmiki most of the times quotes Indra or the Trivikrama or Narasimha as the model. He never mentions the great wars which sage Parasurama another incarnation of Vishnu fought. The poet rarely tells in any part of the book about Rama being an incarnation of Vishnu or Lakshmana as an incarnation of Adhisesha etc or refer to for one chapter except in the BalaKanda and another chapter in the Yudha Kanda. Both these chapters do not properly merge with the narrative and are contradicted immediately. Valmiki prefers to cut off reference to a character which he thinks as not important. For example, not a single word in the entire epic is spoken by the wives of Lakshmana, Bharatha or Sathurugna and Sumithra, the mother of Lakshmana rarely speaks. For example even Rama and Lakshmana do not talk in the same style. Valmiki is supposed to have composed this epic in the Treta Yuga ie 869113 years ago.
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