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Dear sri vaishNava perunthgaiyeer,

 

We were seeing in this series titled 'seethaa's learnings' how seethaa exhibits 
her 'lakshaNa saasthra knowledge' - her learning-s on the saasthram of 'beauty 
descriptions of parts of a lady and phalans'. When raavaNan looks at her beauty 
- divinity comes out first and then lust - alternating - and he expresses 'Is 
it that you are a goddess?' first and then 'whatever part of you I see, my eyes 
gets locked there itself'. When hanumaan saw her, that beauty struck him, and 
we enjoyed few slOkams how he recognizes that she is seethaa from that beauty 
of hers. 

 

Has hanumaan been informed of that 'beauty of seethaa' by raama, ' hey, my lady 
will look like this this etc?' No such direct evidence in that direction is 
available in kishkindhaa kaaNdam, when raama gives that ring to hanumaan. There 
is no reference on that story of 'thilakam' also [having been said by raama to 
hanumaan]. 

 

After giving the ring, later hanumaan tells seethaa, "raama told me like this, 
which you two only know" - that as a significant point of true identification 
of himself for easy recognition by seethaa. But first he recollects what all 
raama said about her and her jewellery. Vaalmeeki places that description 
giving by way of a flash back - hanumaan recollects yes - raama told me like 
this - 

 

vaidhEhyaa yaani cha angeshu thadhaa raamO anvakeerthayath |

thaani aabharaNa jaalaani gaathra sobheeni alakshayath || 5-15-41

 

sukruthou karNa veshTou cha sva dhamshTrou cha susamsthithou |

maNi vidhruma chithraaNi hasthEshu aabharaNaani cha || 5-15-42

syaamaani chira yukthathvaath thathaa samsthaanavanthi cha |

 

Meaning: Then Hanumaan saw the jewelry marks on the body of seethaa, whatever 
groups of jewellery of Seethaa about which Raama spoke, on her various parts 
[now since not available the marks are visible clearly], those jewelry charming 
Her limbs, like well made earrings, well fitting 'dog teeth ornament' and 
ornaments wonderful with diamonds on the limbs of Her hands, adorned on the 
body for long time, blackened and making marks.

 

[sva dhamshtrou - is it a dog's teeth? Or tiger - pulippal aabharaNam - 
svapaadha means tiger - means puli nagam vaiththa aabharaNam? Not clear]

 

Point: here that word 'cha' has to be applied better for a clear meaning - for 
if you simply read above you don't get that raama described seethaa's beauty 
first and then and then about her jewelry and marks they on her body. 

If you do a little anvayam you get that meaning - 

 

1. thadhaa vaidhEhyaa yaani angeshu raamO anvakeerthayath thaani alakshayath || 

2. thadhaa vaidhEhyaa yaani angeshu aabharaNa jaalaani gaathra sobheeni raamO 
anvakeerthayath thaani cha alakshayath || 

 

Then a doubt may come - when raama told these to hanumaan - for that we have to 
go back to kishkindhaa kaaNdam - raama sugreeva meeting, and sugreeva gets the 
jewelry [which seethaa dropped during her abducted travel in the sky] to be 
seen by these two raama and lakshmaNa - see that slOkam 

 

uththareeyam gruheethvaa thu sa thaani aabharaNaani cha |

idham pasya ithi raamaaya dharsayaamaasa vaanara: || 4-6-15

 

meaning: On taking and bringing the parcel of that upper cloth with the 
auspicious jewellery, "This, you see..." saying thus that monkey [sugreeva and 
by the side hanumaan is also there] started to show them to Raama. 

 

thathO gruheethvaa vaasa: thu subhaani aabharaNaani cha |

abhavath baashpa samhrudhDha: neehaarENa iva chandramaa: || 4-6-16

meaning: Then on taking that cloth and also the auspicious jewellery, Raama 
became like mist filled moon with overflowing tears. [4-6-16]

 

seethaa snEha pravruththEna sa thu baashpeNa dhooshitha: |

haa priyE ithi rudhan dhairyam uthhsrujya nyapathath kshithou || 4-6-17

 

sa: tu = he but 

seethaa snEha pravruththEna = for Seetha's friendship outpoured

baashpENa dhooshitha: = by tears blemished 

haa priyE = oh, dear 

ithi rudhan = thus wailing 

dhairyam = courage 

uthsrujya = leaving off 

nyapathath = fallen 

kshithou = on ground.

 

Meaning: But he, who is blemished by tears, outpoured in all his friendship 
with Seethaa, leaving off his courage fell on the ground, wailing, 'oh, dear... 
oh, dear'. 

 

Point: here again the word 'pravruththi' means appearance, manifestation. Also 
snEham means love - not only friendship - so by his love he poured out her 
beautiful appearance, 'manifestation' about the jewelry making marks and 
thereby enhancing her beauty - on that occasion of seeing those jewelry of 
seethaa. 

 

Dear bhakthaas of seethaa, you may ask, 'why suddenly switching on raama 
weeping over seeing jewellery?' leaving hanumaan seeing and identifying seethaa 
as 'yes she is'.  

 

For there lies the evidence of raama talking about seethaa's beauty to others - 
earlier he talked to the plants, trees, animals etc, which these perhaps may 
not be able to appreciate that beauty of seethaa. [those slOkams of raama 
describing seethaa's beauty we will see later] but let us focus now on hanumaan 
- - 

 

See how hanumaan enjoys himself seeing seethaa - or reacts in finding seethaa - 
'dhrushtvaa seethaa' as he later says - and feels happy - let us also see that 
hanumaan - in the words of sree thyaagaraaja.

 

Krithi - kanugonu saukhyamu             raagam: naayaki             taaLam: aadi

22 kharaharapriyaa janya

Aa: S R2 M1 P D2 N2 D2 P S

Av: S N2 D2 P M1 R2 G2 R2 S 

Composer: Thyaagaraaja             Language: Telugu 

 

pallavi 

kanogonu soukhyamu kamalajukaina galgunaa - kanugonu 

 

meaning: Can the bliss of 'finding' happen to even brahmaa? 

 

[point: 'can this bliss' instead of 'the' for grammatically there is no word to 
show 'this' but can be taken as such] 

 

anupallavi:  

dhanuja vairiyagu raamuni dhaya galgina nathani vinaa - kanugonu

 

meaning: Except for the one to who happened to have the blessings of Lord 
raama, [who is] the enemy of demons?

 

CharaNam: 

thanu vOkachO manasu OkachO thagina vEsham OkachO

niDi janulanu Echuvaariki jayamounE thyaagaraaju - kanugonu 

 

meaning: According to Tyagaraja, all glories happen to those who have their 
body at one place, mind at other place, and appropriate attire at some other 
place, yet rule all living beings. 

 

Just relish the krithi and we will see the points in next post, how the krithi 
is linked to hanumaan seeing seethaa. 

 

Dhasan

Vasudevan m.g



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