Dear shri man Kasturi rangan Swamin...... (Your Sarabha Story)

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Shri :

Shri Sadagopan Than- Tamil Nool Vazhiya

Shri Kaarimaaran Thiruvadikalae Saranam

 

Dear Kasturi Rangan Swamin

 

 

Adiyaen's Pranams.

 

Adiyaen is surprised/embarrassed to know new things by reading

your mail.whatsoever it be, for us to get rid of this birth ,death

cycle, we approach our almighty.

 

Tamil(Dravidian) people's favorite poet Thiruvalluvar also ,

i think , may be a Shri Vaishnavite. here is a clip.

 

Vendunkaal vendum Piravaamai matrathu

vendaamai venda varum.

 

See What our beloved kaarimaaran ji says: ( complimented)

Atrathu Patrenil Utrathu Veedu Uyir (Ref 1.2.X)

 

Veedumin Mutravum Veedu seithu Veedu udaiyaanukku....

 

Our Shri Vishnu sahasranamama is also saying "sharabha story "

"Atula sharabho bheema sama yajno havir Hari:"

 

Reference : www.mypurohith.com/Rituals/vishnusahasranaamam[0-75].asp

When i try to go the word by word meaning,

They say that Shiva took the form of eight legged Creature(like a

spider man) to kill lion. Let Lord Shiva be a Spider man/Ape man.

That is his business.

 

ADIYAEN IS concerned of OUR almighty.

 

Howsoever the meaning of Sarabha (= Sara + bha ) refers as

sara means that which is perishable. all finite substance/entities

are subject to annihilation. so sarabha here refers to He who

dwells and shines forth in us. (that is our almighty).

complimenting the Balamurali krishna's carnatic song.

"Anthari ki Shri hari anthar-aathmaa !!! Brahmam okka-dey para-

brahmam.."

 

Thanks for bringing this story.

 

 

ADIYAEN

 

THONDAR THONDAR THONDAN SADAGOPAN DAASAN.

 

"Kodumaa vinaiyaen avan adiyaar adiyae koodum ithu vallaal

Vidumaaru - yenpathaen ANTHO VIYAN MOO-VULAGU PERINUMAE"

 

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ramanuja, "kasturirangan_k"

<kasturirangan_k> wrote:

> Dear Devotee,

> > I also see a sculpture ,irking my eyes always, every time , I

see

> > that pillar where a sculpture depicts like this. It has brahma ,

in

> > the form of holy-Swan flying up …. and our almighty In the form

of

> > Boar trying to go down and in the center of which Shiva is

there.

> > They try to depict a story that Our beloved almighty and Brahma

> > tried to find the origin of Shiva one trying to see his head and

> the > other tail.

>

> If this one merely irks your eyes, wait till you read accounts

from

> shiva/linga puranas & sharabhopanishad. The story of Nrsimha slain

by

> rudra in the form of sharabha. They twist the whole meaning

of "harim

> harantam..." yajurvedic mantra as "shiva who killed Hari (in the

form

> of Nrsimha)". In tamil nadu there is a shiva temple, if I remember

> correctly, where he is called "sattainathar" - shiva who is

wearing

> the skin of vishnu for clothes!

>

> You have to take them as the hostility of shaivas & vaishnavas in

> yesteryears channelized through literary means. Vaishnavas have

given

> the shaivas their due in their puranas. For example, in

Harivamsha,

> there is a story on how shiva became nIlakanTha - Vishnu choked

shiva

> to such an extent that shiva started begging for mercy. The mark

from

> the choking became permanent on Shiva's throat.

>

> Regards,

> Kasturi Rangan .K

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Dear Devotee,

Disclaimer: The following is simply an "academic reference".

 

> They say that Shiva took the form of eight legged Creature(like a

> spider man) to kill lion. Let Lord Shiva be a Spider man/Ape man.

> That is his business.

 

Sharabha was not spiderman or apeman :-). The description of sharbha

is something like partly lion, partly snake and partly a bird.

Sharabha worship was usually confined to Himachal regions and was

shared with obscure Bauddha cults too. It was also

called "pakshirAja". The Himachali shrines contains bones of

sharabha, which were actually dinosaur bones. The description given

curiously matches the description of archeopteryx. So the people

there seemed to have got the anatomy alright. Here is a crude

reconstruction of the same:

http://daphne.palomar.edu/mlane/DRAWINGS/archeopteryx.JPG

and of sharabha:

http://www.arthistory.upenn.edu/narasimha/pahari.jpg

http://www.shivaya.biz/i/Product%20Images/Sharaba_CD.gif

 

The episode of sharabha seemed to have caused heated clashes between

shaivas & vaishnavas.

 

Regards,

Kasturi Rangan .K