Guest guest Posted June 4, 2001 Report Share Posted June 4, 2001 Does anyone know the source of the story of Kakabhushundi in Tulsidas' Ramacharitamanasa? Also, other sources for Ramacharitamanasa besides Valmiki Ramayana, Adhyatma Ramayana, Padma Purana? Thank you very much Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 4, 2001 Report Share Posted June 4, 2001 INDOLOGY, wfsands@m... wrote: > Does anyone know the source of the story of > Kakabhushundi in Tulsidas' Ramacharitamanasa? > > Also, other sources for Ramacharitamanasa besides Valmiki > Ramayana, Adhyatma Ramayana, Padma Purana? > > Thank you very much kAkabhuzuNDar is counted as one of the Tamil siddhars, and his poems are included in the Tamil siddha poems. For an intro to tamil siddha tradition, read Kamil Zvelebil, The poets of the powers. The naaDi astrology, (predicting the past from palm leaves) also has Kaakabhushunda as one of their rishis. Besides PadmapuraaNam's occurence pointing to a southern origin, there are specific themes from Kamban's ramayanam found in Tulasi. In TiruppanantAL, the saiva siddhanta adheenam is called Kaasi mutt, and one of their saint-poets, Kumaraguruparar went to Kashi, pleaded with the Moghul king so that Vishvanatha's worship should not be stopped. Kumaraguruparar founded a Mutt in Kashi, and to this day, the early morning naivedhyam for Kashi Vishvanatha goes from this mutt with the accompaniment of Nadhasvaram music, and this mutt for centuries distributed rudrakshams and vibhuuthi free of charge. Thiru. U. V. Saaminaathaiyar, the great editor of early sangam texts, was a Mutt scholar, and also edited Kumaraguruparar's learned prabandhams. In the Foreword, UVS describes Tulsidas coming to Kumaraguruparar's lectures on KambaramayaNam and being influenced by the epic. Allen Keislar at UC, Berkeley can be contacted for further info. Regards, N. Ganesan -- "Allan M. Keislar" <keislar [keislar(AT)uclink2.Berkeley.edu] <<< I am trying to find out some information about the Tamil Saiva Siddha, Kakabhusunda (kAkabhuZuNDa). I am doing research on a medieval Sanskrit text, the Bhusundi-ramayana, and it appears that the earliest mention of this figure, the crow Bhusundi, is in Tamil texts. Dr. V. Raghavan mentions in the New Catalogus Catalogorum (NCC, vol. 3, p. 296) that "Kakabhusunda is counted as one among the Siddhas in the Tamil Siddha tradition and three Advaitic mystic poems and a story about him are found in Tamil literature", but he gives no reference. George and Kausalya Hart, our Tamil experts here in Berkeley, could not help me. However, Dr. R. Nagaswamy, the Directory of Archaeology of Tamil Nadu, although he was not familiar with the poems and story mentioned by Raghavan, told me that texts of the nadi genre ascribed to Bhusunda are known in Tamil Nadu, but he also did not have further information. Vasudha Narayanan suggested to me that you would know about this, if anyone in America would, as you have "the most extensive (private) Tamil biblio in this country." Do you possibly know anything about this Kakabhusunda in Tamil literature? >>> ------------------------- Tue, 10 Mar 1998 15:03:36 -0800 Indology <INDOLOGY Sender: Indology <INDOLOGY Luis Gonzalez-Reimann <reimann Re: Quotations from Bhusundi-ramayana Comments: indology Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Dear list members, The following is a request from a colleague who is not on the list. You can respond on the list or to him directly; his email address is at the end of the message. Thanks for any help, Luis Gonzalez-Reimann University of California, Berkeley >Does anyone know where I could obtain a copy of the >_RAma-nava-ratna-sAra-saNgraha_ by RAma-caraNa-dAsa? It was published by ZrI-avadha-ZaraNa of JAnakI-ghATa at the Goloka Press, AyodhyA, in Vikrama Samvat 1985 (1907 CE). Or does anyone have information about accessible manuscripts of this text? > >I am searching for any early quotations of verses ascribed to the _BhuZuNDi-rAmAyaNa_. ("Early" means verses not taken from the edition of the text published by Bhagavati Prasad Singh in 1975-1985.) I have seen Singh's publications and the 1976 edition of BhuvaneZvaranAtha MiZra's 1957 _RAmabhakti-sAhitya me~ Madhura UpAsanA_, which include such quotations. If anyone can supply other verses, or even justreferences, I would appreciate it. > >Since what I need is only the verse (or verses?) the >_RAma-nava-ratna-sAra-saNgraha_ quotes from the _BhuzuNDi-RAmAyaNa_, if more of the text is not available even a photocopy of page 27 of the published text, which includes one verse, (and a photocopy of the title page if possible) would be helpful. If this is not available, if someone could definitely supply even just the verse itself, that would be a final alternative. > >Similarly, I have not yet been able to obtain the exact verse ascribed to the _BhuZuNDi-rAmAyaNa_ quoted by Rn N. TripAThI in the introductory material to his edition of the _RAma-carita-mAnasa_ (Allahabad: Hindi Mandira, 1936). A copy of this publication is available in the Central Secretariat Library in New Delhi (and a microfilm is to be made by CRL), but I have not yet obtained it. Can anyone help with this or any other early quotations of the _BhuZuNDi-rAmAyaNa_? > >Thanks, > >Allan Keislar >Dept. of South and Southeast Asian Studies >University of California, Berkeley >Berkeley, CA 94720 >(510)-548-3247 >keislar > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 4, 2001 Report Share Posted June 4, 2001 INDOLOGY, wfsands@m... wrote: > Does anyone know the source of the story of > Kakabhushundi in Tulsidas' Ramacharitamanasa? > > Also, other sources for Ramacharitamanasa besides Valmiki > Ramayana, Adhyatma Ramayana, Padma Purana? > > Thank you very much dear sir the kakabhusundi story wasmentioned in detailsin the 8th bookanmed "utterkanda" of ramacharitamanasa oftulasidas,in brief- Garuda the flying bird of vishnu helped rama during the lanka war,to get ridofcobrabindings,so he got somedoubt,iframa is realyvishnu'sincarnationornot?he went LORD SHIVA,toclarification but shivasent himtokakabhusundi,therethe garuda wentand by the teachings of kakabhusundi,hisdoubt was vanished.the storystory is givenramayana for detailsyoucan gothrough the original literature spsharma Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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