Srimad Ramayana Tatva Deepika -Ba:la ka:nda #115

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Srimathe Ramanujayanamaha!

Jeeyar Tiruvadigale Saranam!!

Jeeyar Tiruvadigale Saranam!!!

 

(14th sarga)

 

The ritual horse (yajna:aswam) - that had been released a year ago went around

the kingdom freely while being taken care by the four hundred royal warriors

like Vara, Su:tha, Bra:hmani and Sangrahani, well-guarded by Brahma, Adhvarvudu,

Ho:tha and Udga:tha, - returned to the capital. Then four rithwiks took it to

the sacred place and conducted ho:mam at its four legs.

 

Just a year ago in the month of Chaitra the ritual horse was released. After

eleven months it was brought and tied to the ‘Aswaththa’ tree. In the twelfth

month ie in the month of ‘Pha:lguna’, after getting the ritual-ground and the

other paraphernalia ready, on the newmoon day (of the Phalguna maasa) they all

entered the yajnabhumi accompanied by all the rithwiks. They started the yajna

on the first day of (paadyami) Chaitra maasa. Rishyasringa was the main rithwik

– brahma -- for the yajna. From that paadyami onwards for seven days the vedic

scholars who were in charge of the yajna performed twenty-one homams for the

king. The rithwiks who were proficient in the Vedas and their meanings, who

mastered the Meema:msa sasthra and studied thoroughly the Kalpasu:tras were

executing their assigned duties confined to their fixed places. Later they

brought the ‘So:malatha’ that is to be used in the yajna. They had sanctified

that with some rituals. The rithwiks performed the special ritual as ordained in

the Bra:hmanam called ‘Pravargyam’ systematically and later conducted the ishti

‘Upasadanam’. Every ritual was organized in the most authentic manner as

prescribed by the Sasthras. On completing the initial ceremonies they performed

Praathassavanam, Maadhyandina savanam, Thrithi:ya savanam etc. Later they

offered the ‘so:marasa’ kept in the vessel Aindram. Those containers are called

‘grahams’. Somaraja annihilates the sins. That Somaraja is invoked with

stothrams and sasthras. That ‘haviss’ which had the Indra as the devatha was

offered to him at dawn, afternoon and in the evening. The Somalatha is called

the Somaraj. The So:maraj is placed on a rock. Brahma stood to its south,

Adhvaryudu to the west, Ho:tha to the north and in the east Udga:tha stood and

they all smashed it with stones and extracted the juice . All the Brahmins in

the yajna conducted the homams in a meticulous manner.

 

(To be continued...)

 

Jai Srimannarayana!

Ramanujamma M Ramanuja Dasee.