Sramana 1995 10

SR No.: 525024
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Ashok Kumar Singh
Publisher: Parshvanath Vidhyashram Varanasi
Publication Year: 1995
Total Pages: 122
Language: Hindi
Classification: Magazine, India_Sramana, & India
File Size: 6 MB

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religion, Padma (Rama), Laksmana and Ravana has been included in Trisastiśalāka-puruṣas' i. e., 'sixty three persons holding supreme positions. Rāma, Lakşmaņa and Ravana are the 'astam' (the eighth ) Baladeva ( Balabhadra ), Vasudeva ( Nārāyana) are born the sons of a certain king, from his different queens. Vasudeva, along with his elder brother Baladeva, fights with the Prativasudeva (Pratinārāyaṇa ), and ultimately kills the Prativasudeva ......... Among the nine Vasudevas, Laksamana and Kļşņa are distinctively noteworthy.? ( Page 33, para 2 )
In 'Padmapurāna, King Daśaratha has four queens ( instead of the three, as per the common belief ). Padma ( Rāma ) is born from Aparājita ( Kausalya ), Lakşmana from Sumitrā ( Kaikeyi ), Bharata from Kekayā and Satrughna from Suprabha ( 25/19-36 ). Padma ( Rama 's) mother Aparājita gives her son another name 'Bala'; and so does, Lakşmaņa's mother Sumitrā to him 'Harit
बलनामापरं मात्र मद्यस्येति विनिर्मितम्।
gfERAT fafa Huer HEBATI ( 25/37 ) Rāma-Lakşmana protect, not the hermit Viśvāmitra's Yajña from the demons ( Taďaka & Subahu etc. ); but king Janaka's territory from the 'mlecchas' ( i. e., the barbarians or persons of low birth ). King Janaka's daughter Sita, is not an 'ayonijā' ( not born of a mother's womb) or bhūmija' (born from the soil ) lass here; but an offspring of Janaka & Videha ( 26/121 ). She has a twin-brother, too (Ibid ), named Bhāmandala (26/148 ), who in the beginning gets separated from his parents ( 26/121-164 ); but later on assists Rama in the battle against Rāvana ( 54/37, 55/74-75, 58/24, 60/85, 60/102, 61/ 10-12, 65/2, etc. ). Here, Rāma is not a banished son owing to the hardheartedness of Kaikeyi ( Kekaya ). He rather abdicates to gear up her ( Kekaya's ) attempt of dissuading Bharata from becoming a monk ( in line with his father intending to do so ) ( 31/95-163 ). Moreover, Rama does not go to the forest, but to another town (s) ... ... TEBE R ( 31/185 )
The predominant event of 'Sita's abduction' occurs here, not as a retaliation of the chopping of Süparņakha's nose & ears; but on account of the unfortunate incident in which her (Chandranakha's ) son Sambuka gets beheaded ( 43/61-73 ) while evincing the sword - 'Sūryahāsa' (43/45-49 );
(also see 44/27-28, 59). Sugriva, the monkey-king, here gets deprived of his