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I am not qualified to answer Vijay's question but thougt that I might

add a comment. These actions of Narayana form part of His Leelas and

even Adi Sesha who goes on describing the glories of these Leelas

with His unlimited mouths cannot complete description for even one

day. I remember listening to one of Sri Krishna Premee's cassettes

where he gives at least half a dozen interpretations to one act of

Sita throwing a blade of grass when Ravana goes to see Her at Ashoka

vana.

 

Hopefully Sri Sadagopan and other scholars on the group will attempt

to answer this interesting question.

 

I have not read anywhere that Rama ceased to be an Avatara. As far

as I know among the Dasavatara only Parasurama ceased to be an

avatara because he was a jivatma like us who was pervaded by Narayana

for a certain period of time. Rama was never a jivatma and therefore

His ceasing to be an Avatara does not arise. Infact when Rama's

11,000 years were finished, He simply "walked away" (to

Vaikuntham) and asked the interested citizens of Ayodhya to follow -

and they all did. If Rama had not been Narayana till the end they

would not have done so.

 

Jaganath.