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                                  SrIH
SrImate ra?ngarAmAnuja MahA deSikAya namaH
SrImate SrInivAsa rAmAnuja MahA deSikAya namaH
SrImate VedAnta rAmAnuja MahA deSikAya namaH
SrI ra?nganAtha divya maNi pAdukAbhyAm namaH

AcArya rAmAmRtam  - (from SrI ra?nganAtha pAdukA  dt. March 08  Part 1)

               English Translation of 
SrImad rAmAyaNa upanyAsam in tamizh by SrImad tirukkuDandai ANDavan

        As published in SrI ra?nganAtha pAdukA by
SrI u.ve. nATTEri KiDAmbi rAjagopAlAcAriyAr  (Editor of SrI ra?nganAtha
pAdukA)

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SrImad ANDavan tiruvaDi,
kalyANi kRshNamAcAri
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                    SrImad tirukkuDandai ANDavan?s SrImad rAmAyaNa
upanyAsam

In Janaka's palace in Mithilai, ViSvAmitra and Janaka were chatting
with each other.  Janaka said that he would show the bow to the kids
next morning.

Next morning, everybody came to the court.  Immediately on arrival,
ViSvAmitrar asked where the bow was.

nRNAm SatAni pa'ncASAt vyAyatAnAm mahAtmanAm |
ma'njUshAm ashTacakrAm tAm samUhuste katha'ncana || (bAla.67.4)

The bow was kept in a carriage with eight wheels.  That carriage was
being pulled in and brought by many people, svAmi!  How many people? 
nRNAm SatAni pa'ncASAt vyAyatAnAm mahAtmanAm - 5000 people were pulling
that eight-wheeled carriage. The bow was kept on it.  Were these 5000
people who were pulling it weak ones?  Were they inflicted by yellow
fever?  (laughter in the audience) vyAyatAnAm mahAtmanAm - they were
all well-built people.  Only those kinds of people were pulling.

ma'njUshAm ashTacakrAm tAm samUhuste katha'ncana - they pulled the
carriage with great difficulty and brought it to the court. 
ViSvAmitrar was informed that the bow has been brought. That bow's
height was reaching the sky.

uRuvali yAnaiyai otta mEniyar
SeRimayirk kal enat tiRaNDa tOLinar
aRupadinAyirar aLavu il ARRalar 
taRi maDuttu, iDaiyiDai, taNDil tA'nginar  
                       (kambar.bAla. kArmukap paThalam-3)

Kambar says that 60,000 people carried it and brought it.  VAlmIki is
saying 5000 and Kambar is saying 60,000.  How were those 60,000 people?
 uRuvali yAnaiyai otta mEniyar - they were all valiant like elephants. 
In PudukkOTTai palace, there were three elephants.  We have seen them
when we were young.  It will take four hours for the elephant to get up
(laughter in the audience).  They were all the king's elephants.  On
the day called svarNA savAri, they will decorate the elephants very
nicely and bring them. 

uRuvali yAnaiyai otta mEniyar
SeRi mayirk kal enat tiRaNDa tOLinar

The shoulders of these people were strong like stone, granite stone.
There were 60,000 of those people - aRupadinAyirar aLavu il ARRalar  -
they were all extremely strong.  

taRi maDuttu iDaiyiDai taNDil tA'nginar. VAlmIki says 5000 people, and
Kambar says 60,000.  Kambar is giving a higher figure; can he do that? 
If we look at the word aRupadinAyiram (60,000) as aRu (cut) padinAyiram
(10,000), then the word aRu- padinAyiram can mean half of 10,000, which
is   5000, right?  aRu [cut in middle] padinAyiram [10,000]; if you cut
10,000 in the middle, it is 5000.  Interpret it that way.  Kambar's
words are very deep in meanings.   His words can be interpreted with
several meanings. 

'Sa'ngoDu cakkaram taritta Se'nkai ac-
ci'nga ERu allanEl idanait tINDuvAn
e'ngu uLan oruvan?  inRu ERRin, iccilai,
ma'ngai tan tirumaNam vAzhumAl' enbar 
                                      (kambar.bAla.kArmukap paThalam-5)

The bow was brought.  Thousands of people had come there to look at it.
They were all sitting in the gallery.  Do you know what gallery is? No?
 People watch cricket sitting in the gallery!  (Laughter in the
audience)  Like that, they were all sitting and watching.

Sa'ngoDu cakkaram taritta Se'nkai ac-
ci'nga ERu allanEl idanait tINDuvAn
e'ngu uLan?

Who can bend this bow?  Who can string the bow?  Only paramAtmA who is
bearing the conch and cakram can do it.  No one else can.  inRu ERRin
iccilai ma'ngai tan tirumaNam vAzhumAl - our sItA will get married
today if this bow is strung today.

People wondered -  'tiN neDu mEruvait tiraTTiRRO?' enbAr  (kAr.7) Was
this bow made by carving it out of the Meru mountain?

'vaNNa vAn kaDal paNDu kaDainda mattu' enbAr (kAr.7) - the Mandara
mountain was used for churning the ocean; has that mountain come here
in this form?

'aNNal vAL aravinukku araSanO?'  enbAr (kAr.7)  Is it tiruvanantAzhvAn,
who is the king of all serpents?

'viN iDu neDiya vil vIzhndadO?' enbAr (kAr.7) Or, is it the bow
[rainbow] that appears in the sky?  Has that fallen down?  Such a big
bow has been brought here.

People keep talking to themselves - 

'en"idu koNarga" ena iyambinAn?' enbAr  
'mannavar uLar kolO madi keTTAr?'  enbAr
'munnai Uzh vinaiyinAl muDikkil Am' enbAr
'kanniyum iccilai kANumO?' enbAr (kAr.8)

Kambar has described the scene beautifully.  

People were talking between themselves:  en idu koNarga ena iyambinAn
enbAr - 'Why has this been brought? Can anyone bend this?  Can this be
lifted?  What is this?  No one can do this.'

Uzh vinaiyinAl muDikkil Am - If a person has acquired enough puNyam
(blessing from good deeds) to marry sItA, may be he can do this.  It
can only be possible because of previous good karmA, nothing else.

'iccilai udaitta kORkku ilakkam yAdu?'  enbAr
'naccilai na'ngai mEl nATTum, vEndu' enbAr
'niccayam eDukkum kol nEmiyAn!' enbAr
ciRcilar 'vidi Seyda tImai Am' enbAr (kAr.9)

Why did he [Janaka] say that he would give his daughter in marriage
only to the person who bends this blow?  

The reason is this - This sItA was playing ammAnai [ a game].  It is a
game with three marbles that are tossed up one at a time and caught
repeatedly and alternately without letting them fall on the ground. 
There is a song that is sung during this game.  When she was playing,
one of the marbles fell down; and it rolled beneath the box in which
Siva's bow was kept. King Janaka was watching this.  sItA wanted to
continue playing ammAnai; so, she moved the box with her left hand! 
She continued playing the marbles.  Janaka wondered: "What is this! 
Our girl is very small!  She refuses to come if asked to clean the
eating place [in Tamizh, this is called 'eccal peraTTal'!]    (audience
laughs).  She is now moving a mountain.  How do I deal with this girl! 
How can I look for an alliance for a girl who is so strong as to move a
mountain-like bow?" King Janaka decided that he would give her in
marriage only to a person who can bend that bow.

So, 

yaH SivadhanurAropaNam akarot, sa tu bhavati janaka jAmAtA, yenAropaNam
akRtam tasyApi janakajA mAtA.  

Whoever strings this Siva's bow, sa tu bhavati janaka jAmAtA -only he
will become Janaka's son-in-law.  If one cannot string the bow, he will
have janakajA mAtA - [note the difference in words]; one who bends,
becomes janaka jAmAtA - Janaka's son-in-law. One who cannot, will have
janakajA as mAtA - he should think of JanakajA [sItA] as his mother -
mAtA.

So, that great a bow was brought there to the court.  A lot of people
are looking.  Do the people who sit in the gallery sit doing nothing? 
They look at whoever is coming to the field to play, and think:  "Look
at how well this boy going to play!  He will get a century [100 point
score]!  Watch how many 'sixers' he is going to hit!"  Then, it will so
happen that on the second ball itself, that player will be called
'out'!  (laughter in the audience)  

Like that,
'naccilai na'ngai mEl nATTum, vEndu' enbAr
'niccayam eDukkum kol nEmiyAn!' enbAr

The audience will look at the person coming to string the bow and
comment - 'Look at his style, he looks very confident; if you see the
way he sits, the way he looks, etc., I can say that he is definitely
going to lift this bow'.

ciRcilar 'vidiSeyda tImai Am' enbAr

Some said:  "These kids [rAma and lakshmaNa] look like small boys. 
This bow is so huge.  We don't know how fate is." 

King Janaka brought this bow here.

'j~nAna munikku oru nAN ilai' enbAr;
'kOn ivanin koDiyOn ilai' enbAr;
'mAnavan iccilai kAl vaLaiyAnEl
pIna tanattavaL pERu ilaL' enbAr. (kAr.31)

Some people were saying:  "There are so many Rshi-s here.  This boy
[rAma] seems like a good match; why is this Janaka not giving his
daughter to him in marriage, and instead, bringing this bow?  He has no
shame.  So many kings have come and tried."

'mAnavan iccilai kAl vaLaiyAnEl
pIna tanattavaL pERivaL' enbAr.

They were saying:  "If this boy does not lift this bow, sItA will never
get married.  Who else is going to lift this bow?"

King Janaka brings that bow and says - "This was given by deva-s.  It
is Sivan's bow.  We are paying obeisance to the bow in our family every
day.  Nothing else.'

vatsa rAma!  dhanuH paSya iti rAghavam abravIt ! (bAla.67.12)

VisvAmitra said:  "Is that so?".  He called - "vatsa!"  'Child!'

vatsa rAma!  dhanuH paSya iti rAghavam abravIt !

He said, "Child"!  As soon as lakshmaNan saw the bow, he got ready to
go and look at it to try his hand at the bow; VisvAmitra said, "I
didn't call you; go and sit down.", and then he called: "rAma!"

rAghavatve'bhavat sItA, rukmiNI kRshNa janmani |
anyeshu cAvatAreshu lakshmIH SrIH anapAyini ||
                    (ParAsarar in VishNu purANam 1.9.141-142).

sitA came to this earth for rAma;  rukmiNi took birth for KRshNa; 
similarly, in all incarnations, SrI is inseparably together with Him."

"lakshmaNa, you sit down.  I have a different one for you. Sit down."

"rAma!" - what is he going to tell rAma?  He is a Rshi with anger. 
vacanam kauSikasyeti kartavyam aviSa'nkayA - If ViSvAmitra says
something, it should be executed without question.  ViSvAmitra will
easily become angry.  VasishThar will not get angry.  One can manage.

What is ViSvAmitra going to say?  rAma!  dhanuH paSya.  He has brought
Him over a long distance only to see this bow.  He said  "rAma! dhanuH
paSya".  Why did he have to say "danuH paSya"?  Because rAma was
watching something else instead of looking at the bow!  In the balcony,
sItA was watching with curiosity.  rAma was watching that sItA!  So, he
said, 'dhanuH paSya' -  "Don't look at that!  Look at this! If You do
this now, You can keep looking at Her all the time later." 

'paSya iti padena lakshmaNa vyAvRttiH;  dhanuriti padena sItA darSana
vyAvRttiH kriyate"  - lakshmaNa was excluded by the word 'paSya'
addressed to rAma; by referring to 'dhanus', looking at sItA was
excluded'.  Keeping this meaning, Kambar created an interesting chapter
- [paTalam] called "sItai kAN paTalam' -The chapter dealing with
"Looking at sItA".  

vaiyam ennai igazhavum mAsu enakku 
eydavaum ?.
deyva mAk kavi mAtci terikkavE  (kambar.bAla. pAyiram 6) -  

Kambar has said at the beginning of the kAvyam itself, that he is
writing his Kamba rAmAyaNam only to bring out the divine poet VAlmIki
and his importance.  There is no chapter in VAlmIki rAmAyaNam for
"looking at sItA"!  A question may arise - how is Kambar writing one? 
The answer to this is given by this one phrase "dhanuH paSya".

rAma has come only to see the bow.  

A son-in-law has come to his father-in-law's house.  He has taken bath
and has done sandhyAvandanam.  He has come to the kitchen to eat!  Why
should one serve him iDli [steamed rice cake] and then say "look at the
iDli"!  He has come only for that (laughter in the audience).  Why does
ViSvAmitrar say "Look!" to the person who has come to look at the bow? 


sItA's friends had told her:  "This boy has come.  Immensely charming. 
He is dark-hued.  ViSvAmitra says that he had brought Him to take a
look at the bow."  So, sItA came to see this boy also.

tan nEr illA ma'ngaiyar, 'Sengait taLir mAnE!
annE! tEnE!  Ar amizhdE!' enRu aDi pORRi,
munnE, munnE, moy malar tUvi muRai Sara,
ponnE SUzhum pUvin odu'ngip pologinRAL
                    (kambar. bAla.MithilA kAtchi.30)

She has thousands of lady friends. They sprinkle flowers on the path as
she walks  and praise her as deer and honey.  Amongst them, she stood 
- Sata kOTi min sEvikka min araSu ennum paDi ninRAL (kambar.
bAla.MithilA kAtchi.31)- when she is coming surrounded by friends, how
is she?  She is like the queen of all lightning; amongst friends who
are all like lightnings, she is like the queen of all those lightnings.


hiraNyavarNAm hariNIm suvarNa rajatasrajAm |
candrAm hiraNmayIm lakshmIm jAtavedo ma Avaha ||

'kollum vElum kURRamum ennum ivai ellAm 
vellum vellum' enna madarkkum vizhi koNDAL
Sollum tanmaittu anRu adu; kunRum, Suvarum, tiN
kallum, pullum kaNDu uruga, peN kani ninRAL.   
                                                  (kambar. bAla.MithilA
kAtchi.32)

rAma looked.  A look at sItA will make one melt.  sItA was standing
there in such a beautiful form.  rAma looked.  What is this!  There is
lightning standing here!"  The court itself is wonderful.  The bow is
in the court.  In upper balcony, sItA is standing.  And she is shining
like the queen of lightning.

eNNa aru nalattinAL inayaL ninruzhi,
kaNNoDu kaN iNai kavvi, onRai onRu
uNNavum, nilai peRAdu uNarvum onRiDa,
aNNalum nOkkinAn; avaLum nOkkinAL.     
                                     (kambar. bAla.MithilA kAtchi.35)

 Kambar is describing kAma rasam - SR'ngAram. 

rAmar looked - 
eNNa aru nalattinAL inayaL ninruzhi,
kaNNODu kaN iNai kavvi, onRai onRu
uNNavum,  nilai peRAdu uNarvum onRiDa

He is grabbing her with His eyes.  She is also grabbing Him with her
eyes.  Both are in the same state - tadeka darSane dRshTiH asya eva
darSane tasyAH dRshTiH.

aNNalum nOkkinAn, avaLum nOkkinAL - He looked.  She also looked.  Why
is this said?  If one looks and the other doesn't, it is of no use

ekatra dRshTe'pi ?  rasAbhAsaH sa vig~neyaH   (kuvalayAnandam)

What if he is looking and at the same time, she is looking at someone
else's back? It is like writing the numbers three and six.  Three (3)
faces one way.  Six (6) faces another way.  Will it be correct if it is
like that - like 36?  If a couple are like thirty six, you know what
that means.  Do you understand?  (laughter in the audience)  Do I have
to explain it more!  (laughter persists)

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To be continued ?..






      
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