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  • Vishnu Rama Married Mother Bhu Devi and Daughter Sita?

    I have been receiving some  intelligent and incisive questions on the Ramayana.

    What is the Age of Rama when he married Sita, was he 12 or 24?

    How many days did the Ramayana war take , 7 or 13?

    Did Rama marry Mother and Daughter?

    These questions have been asked to get clarity , not with the intention of maligning Hinduism.

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    Bhudevi.”Bhudevi”. Licensed under CC SA 1.0 via Wikimedia Commons – http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bhudevi.jpg#/media/File:Bhudevi.jpg

    I shall answer the question relating to Rama marrying Mother and Daughter and shall write on the other points with some more in an article as the answer for each of the may be of one or two lines.

    Lord Vishnu has only one consort, wife, Mahalakshmi.

    All the others are  only Avatars or an amsa of Lakshmi.

    Bhu Devi was an avatar of Lakshmi during the period of Varaha Avatar in another Yuga,Aeon.

    Bhūmi (Sanskrit: भूमि), also Bhūmī-Devī (Sanskrit: भूमी देवी), Bhuma-Devi or Bhū-Devī, is the personification of Mother Earth. She is the consort of Varaha, an avatar of Vishnu and regarded as the mother of the goddess Sita. According to the uttara-kanda, when Sita finally leaves her husband Rama, she returns to Bhumidevi. She is the mother of the demon Narakasura .[1] Bhumi Devi is also believed to be one of the two forms of Lakshmi. The other is Sridevi, who remains with Narayana.

    Sri is Lakshmi and the others ae only manifestations of Lakshmi.

    In abstract Philosophical terms, Sri,Prosperity is

    Varchasva,  वर्चस्व,

    1. sway (n)
    2. influence (n)
    3. dominance (n)
    4. ascendancy
    5. domination
    6. mastery

    Ayushyam,Longevity

    Arogya,Health

    Dhanya,Cereals, Food,

    Dhana,Wealth

    Pasu,Cattle

    Puthra,Children

    Sri Varchaswa Ayushyam Arogyam Mavvthach Choobhaaaana aheeyanthe Dhaanya Dhanam Pasu Bahu Puthra Laabham Sadha Samvathsaram Dhhergamaayuhu

    Aaseervatha Mantra.

    In the case of Sita no where, to my knowledge, Valmiki states Sita was born of  Bhu Devi excepting indicating she s considered to be so as she was found in a Field.

    Sita was the daughter of Ravana, though this is not mentioned in the version we follow.

    There are many versions of Ramayana  by Valmiki.

    Please read my post on this.

    In the Avatar of Varaha Vishnu married Bhu Devi who was an incarnation of Lakshmi while he married Sita born in a  Field.

    I am not sure whether Valmiki states Sita is Lakshmi’s incarnation.

    But the Sita Pravara says,

    ‘

    Yajur Veda Saakhaadhyaayineem, Aangeerasa aayaasya gouthama trayarsheya, pravaraanvita goutama gotrOTbhavaam, Chaturdasa

    Bhuvanaadeeswareem, akhilaaNDa kODi brahmaaNDa naayikaam, tattva swaroopiNeem, Chandra vamsa pradheepikaam, saraNaagata vatsalaam,

    vEdigarbhOditaam, padma alankruta kara kamalaam, kalahamsa kamineem, indeevara lOchanaam, divya srag vastra bhooshaNaam, hari chandana

    lipta bhujaantaraam, vidhyut prabhaam, visaalaaksheem, srida kunjita moordhajaam, hamsaamkita kshoumENa kinchit peetEna samvrutaam,

    vaasitEnottareeyENa suraktEna susamvrutaam, jagan maataram, nimi vamsOdbhavaam, SwarNarOma mahaaraaja varmaNa: napthreem, hrasvarOma

    mahaaraaja varmaNa: poutreem, Janaka mahaaraaja varmaNa: putreem, sree Seetaa naamneem saakshaath lakshmee swaroopiNeem imaam

    kanyaam
    Meaning:
    This bride named Sri Sita is offered in holy wedlock to you:
    She belongs to Yajur Veda, She belongs to Pravara consisting of the three Rishis viz., Aangirasa, Aayaasya and Goutama, She belongs to Goutama Gotra,

    She is the Queen of the 14 worlds, She is the head of the entire BrhmaaNDam consisting of innumerable aNDaas, She is the one who permeates all the ChEtana and AchEtana Tattvas,

    She is the one who illuminates the lineage of the moon (Chandra Vamsam), She shows extraordinary compassion to all those who surrender unto her,

    She is the one who is born from the Sacrificial pit (Yaaga VEDi), She holds in her hand the lotus flower, She has the gait of a swan, She has bewitching eyes like the flower of the blue-black water lily (Neithal) flower,

    She wears divine garlands, dresses and ornaments, She has her chest smeared with fragrant perfume of sandal paste, She has her locks of hair in an attractively wavy fashion,

    She wears a whitish yellow colored silk saree with borders designed in the form of swans, She wears a scented upper cloth that shines in a natural red hue,

    She is Mother Goddess herself,

    She appeared in the Vamsam of Nimi Mahaaraaja, She is the great grand-daughter of SwarNarOma Mahaaraaja, She is the grand-daughter of HrasvarOma

    Mahaaraaja, She is the daughter of Janaka Mahaaraaja, She is the very incarnation of Mahaalakshmi.

    Here the last sentence seems to be a Poetic Licence.

    Readers may contribute with authority.

    https://ramanisblog.in/2014/06/12/pravara-lineage-of-rama-sita-recited-sita-

    rama-kalyana/

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bh%C5%ABmi

  • Ramayana’s Best Sloka

    There is a Legend that Varauchi,who was in King Vikramaditya’s Court and A great Sanskrit scholar, was asked to pick the best sloka in the Ramayana, which has 24,000 slokas, couplets.

    Lord Rama.jpg
    Lord Rama.

    He is reported to have found it, from the Ghosts in a Tree, who were talking among themselves.

    This is the Best Sloka of Ramayana, found by Vararauchi,

    Ayodhya Kanda, 40 Sarga, 9 Sloka

    ”

    रामम् दशरथम् विद्धि माम् विद्धि जनक आत्मजाम् |
    अयोध्याम् अटवीम् विद्धि गच्च तात यथा सुखम् || २-४०-९

    It has 3 meanings as follows.
    Meaning 1:”Know Rama to be Dasaratha. Look upon Seetha the daughter of Janaka as myself. Consider the forest as Ayodhya and depart happily, my son!”
    Meaning 2: Know Rama is one with 10 avtharas (Vishnu) Know Seetha as Lakshmi (Mam) and Know Forest as Ayodya (Un conquerable-Vaikunta) and depart happily
    Meaning 3: Consider Dasaratha as Dead, consider me as departed to my maternal home (as widow), and forget Ayodya and depart happily.

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  • Ophthalmology Eye Surgery In Vedas Nimi Tantra

    Ophthalmology was called Nimi Tantra in Ancient India.

     

    A research paper presented states that nearly all the diseases known to us were known these ancient people and the cures.

     

    Complicated Eye Surgery, Cataract removal were performed.

     

    The Founder is Nimi,from whose name is derived the word for Minute,Nimisham”

     

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    Ophthalmology.

     

     

     

    Ophthalmology was a recognised branch of
    Salakya tantra and we owe our fullest
    treatment of it to the Uttara tantra of
    Susruta. Its history goes back to a period of
    very remote antiquity. The author of the
    Uttara tantra, in his introduction, specially
    observes: “This part comprises within it the
    specific descriptions of a large and varied
    list of diseases viz., those which form the
    subject matter of the Salakya tantra diseases
    of the eye, ear, nose and throat – as narrated
    by the kind of Videha”. The Salakya tantra
    here referred to must be that traditionally
    credited to Nimi, the King of Videha, the
    reputed founder of the Science of
    Ophthalmology in India….

    Unfortuntely, though the contents of these
    tantras were, in a compressed and selective
    form, compiled in Susruta’s Compendium,
    the original of the work is not now available.
    The names of other famous works by Nimi

    are said to be Vaidya Sandehabhanjini and
    Janaka tantra. About this period six other
    Salakaya tantras written by the disciples of
    Nimi Salyaka, Saunka, Karalabhatta, Caksu
    Sena, Videha and Krsnatreya appear to have
    been current and regarded with great esteem.

    Though the identity of Nimi is still a
    question of keen debate, we have reliable
    records to assume that he was the great
    grand-father of Sita, the daughter of Kind
    Janaka. He is believed to have beenthe
    twelfth King in descent from the Iksvaku
    line of kings who then ruled the kingdom of
    Ayodhya.

    The eye-ball is described as two fingers’
    broad, a thumb’s width deep and two and a
    half fingers in circumference. The eye, we
    are told, is almost round in shape and is
    made up of five mandalas, or circles, six
    sandhis or joints, and six patalas or
    coverings. The mandals are (1) Paksma
    (circles of the eyelashes) (2) Vartma (circles
    of the eyelids) (3) Sveta (the white circle)
    (4) krishna (region of the cornea) (5) drishti
    (circles of the pupil). The sandhis are (1)
    pakshmavartma (between the eye – lashes
    and eyelids) (2) vartma sveta (the fornise)
    (3) sveta krishna (the limbus) (4) krishna
    drishti (the margin of the pupil) (5) kaninika
    (the inner canthus) (6) apanga (the outer
    canthus)

    Of the six patalas two are in the eyelid
    region and four are in the eye proper. There
    are two marmas near the eye, apanga at the
    outer end of the eyebrow and avarta above
    the middle of the eyebrow. If these are cut,
    loss of sight results.

    Most of the common diseases of the eye
    were known to Nimi. He gives a count of
    76 eye diseases of which ten are due to vata
    dosha, ten to pitta dosha, thirteen to kapha
    dosa and sixteen to vitiated blood, twenty
    five are caused by the united action of the
    three doshas (sannipatha) and two are due
    to external causes (visible or invisible
    injury) Cloudiness of vision, lachrymation,
    slight inflammation, accummulation or
    secretion, heaviness and burining sensation,
    racking or aching pain, redness of eye are
    indistincly evident as premonitory
    symptoms…

    Of the seventy six kinds of diseases eleven
    should be treated with incision operations
    (chedya); nine with scarification (lekhya);
    five with excision (bhedya); fifteen with
    venesction (siravedhya); twelve should not
    be operated upon, and nine admit only of
    palliative measures (yapya) while fifteen
    shoud be given up as incurable.
    Opthalmoplegia, nyctalopia, hemeralopia,
    glaucoma, keratitis and corneal ulcers,
    subconjunctival echymosis, scleral nodules,
    blepharitis, xerothalmia membraneous
    conjunctivitis and sclerosis are diseases in
    which operation is not indicated..

    Citation.

    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3331568/pdf/ASL-3-183.pdf

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  • Rama Breaks Shiva Dhanus Pranava OM Reverberates

    Lord Ram, as ordained by his father Dasaratha, at the behest of Janaka, Father of Seetha, takes the Shiva Dhanus playfully in his hands, which as a child

    Seehta  too lifted playfully when she was a child, strings it and it breaks.

     

    Rama breaks Shiva Dhanus, Ravi Verma painting.Image.jpg.
    Rama breaks Shiva Dhanus, Ravi Verma painting. image from wiki.

     

     

    What is the size, measurement of this Shiva Dhanus?

     

    “A bow has a definite height and it is a measure of length, from the ages even up to the age Kautilya, who gave many accounts for weights and measures, in his ‘Artha Shaastra’ a Penguin re-publication.

     

    Four aratni-s cubits are one dhanu, a bow-length, where one aratni is 18 inches, thus a bow-length is 6 feet and above, taking the standard size of archer as a six-footer and a little above.

     

    The bow’s height is the height of the archer plus one measure of his head’s height, as the upper end has to tower the archer’s head.

     

    That being so, this bow belongs to Shiva and its height must be placed more than the human measure of 6 feet, and then it must be some 8 to 10 feet.

     

    And ‘Rama is no crane-legged boy, as his physique is sad to be of ‘medium’ size, and then how a boy of, say of 4, 41/2 feet, could catch the upper end of 8-10 feet bow to bend it…’ is the objection.

     

    An archer has to stand the bow on ground, clutch its lower end under big toe, and with one hand, he has to bend it, while with the other he catches the bowstring to string the other end.

     

    He is not supposed to handle it like a holdall or a briefcase. For this objection it is said in a way that the poet is using the adjectivemahaatmaa to Rama, ‘ an unfathomable one with an equally unfathomable soul… inasmuch as his duty is concerned…’ The minute he touched the bow, it became a spongy stick and it listened to him and bent as he wished.

     

    Other way round, Rama is an ambidextrous archer and furthered is his skill by his possession of some divine missiles as given by Vishvamitra.

     

    Hence, his dexterity is now multiplied and he can handle any divine or human bow ‘effortlessly.”

     

    The action of Sri Ramachandra was so swift that Kamban in Tamil Kambaramayanam describes it best,

     

    ‘எடுத்தது கண்டார் ;இற்றது கேட்டார் .”

     

    “people saw the Lifting of the Bow, then heard the sound of it breaking’

     

    What was the sound like?

     

    Valmiki describes it thus in Bala Kanda Sarga 67.

     

    “Further, that dextrous one has stringed that bow with bowstring and started to stretch it up to his ear to examine its tautness, but that glorious one who is foremost among men, Rama, broke that bow medially…

     

    Then there bechanced an explosive explosion when the bow is broken, like the explosiveness of down plunging thunder, and the earth is tremulously tremulous, as it happens when a mountain is exploding.”

     

     

    ”

    Bewildered by that raucous caused by the breakage of bow, all the people swooned, except for that eminent-saint Vishvamitra, king Janaka, and those two Raghava-s, namely Rama and Lakshmana. While the people are being reaccustomed after their undergoing the shock, at that moment that sententious king Janaka, whose discomfiture has completely departed by now has said this to the eminent-saint Vishvamitra with a reverent palm-fold.

    “Oh, godly sage, the gallantry of Dasharatha’s Rama is evidently seen… and the whys of this boy and wherefores of his stringing that massive bow are unimaginable to me! More so, humans lifting it! How so? This is an unhoped-for incident for me, besides, breaking it! This a is highly wondrous experience for me… My daughter Seetha on getting Dasharatha’s Rama as her husband, she will bring celebrity to the lineage of Janaka-s..”

     

    There is an interesting explanation about the sound the Shiva Dhanus created while breaking.

     

    ”

    We can write more words for the above sound as, ‘Dhaam, Dhiim, Phut, and DiSkuu…’ etc., as long as thesaurus permit. But all that will be nonsensical.

    An ear-splitting sound has come but it is “OM” the auspicious sonus prima grata, produced once upon a time by Shiva’s drum, in order to emanate words through maheshvara suutraaNi, which were unintelligible even for the sages like Sanaka, Sananda, Sanat Kumaara et al., and which were deciphered by Nandi, the Holy Bull vehicle of Shiva, to those sages.

    Here it is Shiva’s bow and name of Shiva and all letters that attaches to Him are sha.m, sha.nkara, sha.mbhava, are peace-making letters, as codified in ˜um nama× þambhave ca mayo bhave ca nama× þaðkar˜ya ca mayaskar˜ya ca nama× þiv˜ya ca þivatar˜ya ca | – rudram – soma s¨kta – yajur ( Sri Rudram)

    Hence the real sound of Om is audible and it is ear-splitting for ordinary audience, since ordinary people cannot possibly face realities, and it is a regularly audible sound for the other four who have not swooned.

    By the way, it will be impossible for us to listen the chanting of Veda-s, even in these days, in any Vedic school for at least half an hour, as our ears are untuned to their ghana paaTha or jaTa or other sorts of chanting.

    We feel stranded in some audio studio with fully loaded sound FX.

    And the pacemaker Rama lifted the bow of the peacemaker Shiva, where the bow itself is “Om”.

    The legendary Indian bow is composed of three parts, unlike Robin Hood’s single-piece bow.

    The lower bowing part, upper bowing part combined by a grip handle, and the bowstring.

    The three pieces are comparable to the three letters syllabified “Om” – a u ma, where a is upper bowing piece of bow,u, the lower end, and ma, the bowstring.

    The painters usually paint this bow-breaking scene, where Rama will be still handling the upper end in his hand, while the lower part will be falling, and the bowstring will be still dangling onto the upper end.

    The upper part of bow is a and this a is Vishnu akaara artho viSNuH, and the dangling bowstring is ma Goddess Lakshmi, loka maataa maa ramaa mangala devataa, dangling on the Supreme Person through thick and thin, and the detached-un-detached lower end is u, Lakshmana, or any other adherer.

    A lengthy account of this trilogy is provided in Aranya Kanda, Ch. 11, first verse.

    And the pacemaker Rama is marrying the world with peace, by stringing the bowstring of peacemaker’s bow, and it is not a mere marriage of some prince charming, with a charmy princess.

    Thus, this sound is the initial impact, impetus, brunt, or whatever, for universal peace, and that way this marriage attains a legendary significance in peace process, though by force”

    Citation.

    Bala Kanda of Valmiki Ramayan

     

     

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  • Family Tree Of Sita’s Father Janaka

    This is the Family Tree of Janaka, Father of Janaki,Sita the consort of Lord Rama.

     

     

    Lord Rama,Flanked by Sita and Lakshmana, with Hanumanji at the Feet.Image.jpg.
    Lord Rama,Flanked by Sita and Lakshmana, with Hanumanji at the Feet. Image credit.http://www.hindugodwallpaper.com/
    • Nimi – Nimi was son of King Ikshwaku and grandson of Manu.
    • Mithi – Founder of Mithila and the first Janaka.
    • Udavasu
    • Nandivardhana
    • Suketu
    • Devarata
    • Brihadratha
    • Mahavira
    • Sudhriti
    • Dristaketu
    • Haryasva
    • Maru
    • Pratindhaka
    • Kirtiratha
    • Devamidha
    • Vibudha
    • Mahidhrika
    • Kirtirata
    • Maharoma
    • Swarnaroma
    • Hrasvaroma
    • Seeradhwaja – Father of Sita.

    The list of Janaks has been compiled from Valmiki Ramayana.[5]

    Janaks after Ramayana[6]

    • Bhaanumaan
    • Shatadyumn
    • Shuchi
    • Oorjnaamaa
    • Kriti
    • Anjan
    • Kurujit
    • Arishtnemi
    • Shrutaayu
    • Supaarshwa
    • Srinjaya
    • Kshemaavee
    • Anenaa
    • Bhaumarath
    • Satyarath
    • Upagu
    • Upagupt
    • Swaagat
    • Swaanand
    • Suvarchaa
    • Supaarshwa
    • Subhaash
    • Sushrut
    • Jaya
    • Vijaya
    • Rit
    • Sunaya
    • Veetahavya
    • Dhriti
    • Bahulaashwa
    • Kriti

    Note on Nimi the First of Janakas.

     

    The Time ,Nimisha’ Minute is named after Nimi.

     

    Once Nimi performed Yagya and invited Sage Vasishtha to be the main priest to conduct Yagya. However Sage vasishtha had already committed to conduct yagya for Lord Indra, he told Nimi that he would officiate as Head Priest after having conducted Lord Indra’s Yagya and thus Nimi will have to wait. Nimi went away without replying. Sage Vashistha got impression that King Nimi has assented to wait for him.

    Sage Vasishtha conducted Lord Indra’s Yagya and rushed to preside at King Nimi’s Yagya only to find that the Yagya was already being conducted. Sage Vasishtha got angry and cursed King Nimi that “he would cease to live in corporal form”. Thus, King Nimi was left without his body. After the Yagya was conducted successfully, the priests asked the Gods to return King Nimi in his corporal form. However, King Nimi declined to go back in his body but requested that he be allowed to live in eyes of all beings. Gods assented to his desire and gave him form of eyelashes, which is present in all beings.

    Source:wiki.

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