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Dear sri vaishNava perunthagaiyeer,
 

Wish you all a very happy Makara sankaranthi and uththaraayaNa puNya kaalam.
 
Many a times we hear in sreemadh raamaayaNam upanyaasams and kaalakshEpams that sri lakshmaNa swamy, the iLaiya perumaaL, has not slept for 14 years in the vanavaasam period. And again that is linked to the indhajith vadham – because indhrajith had a boon -- that a person who does not sleep for 14 long years can kill him. So lakshmaNa did not sleep that many years and that is why he could achieve this feat of killing indhrajith. [like raavaNa who had a boon that he can be killed by a person who lived on roots, fruits, for 14 years – this is being mentioned in 'raama piraanaik karpOm' by poundareekapuram swamy]

 

In my series on 'roles of lakshmaNa' I think this point was not dealt, as I did not think it is part of his roles. A 'sleep-less person' is not a role and hence I did not include. But I included the role of security guard and dealt that, in particular that assignment given to him by raama of guarding seethaa just when raama left behind the maareecha maan.

 

Now I request learned scholars in the list to give reference from vaalmeeki where these two points are dealt.

  1. lakshmaNa did not sleep for 14 years
  2. indhrajith got such a boon from somebody.

Or it can be from our poorva aachaaryas quotes and elaborations – like swamy periya vachan pillai's thani sloki and other commentaries.

 

Why this topic suddenly is - I was asked this question recently and I could not answer immediately. Instead of single handedly searching the 24000 slokams and their commentaries, I thought collective wisdom is a more easy approach.   

 

Await your comments and references

Dhasan


Vasudevan MG __._,_.___

Oppiliappan Koil Varadachari Sadagopan
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