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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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