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It is true that there is a lot of opposites in the two avatharas but you cannot say that they are contradictory but they are really not only complementary, but rather complimentary to each other, I would say. One commentator has said that there is only one similarity in both avatharas in that both of them first killed a woman who stood for adharma , Rama killed Thataka and Krishna, Poothana!.The reason is that it is more dangerous when a woman opposes dharam than a man.Otherwise there are differences in each and every aspect.Ramavthara happened in daytime,in Uttarayana, and Krishna was born in the night in dhakshinayana.Rama gave joy to his mother while Devaki became a soorowful mother because she had to part with him as soos as he was born.The son of the Sungod Sugreeve was the friend of Rama while Karna, the suryaputhra was opposed to Kridshna and the roles of the sons of Indra, vali and arjuna werre also reversed in the same manner.Rama was a

Ekapathni vratha while Krishna had many wives. In Ramayana Hanuman went as the messenger of Rama whereas in Krishnavathara , he himself went as a messenger of Pandavas For this also a beautiful reason is imagined by the commentators, which I will relate in the end. Rama was brought up as a prince but underwent rigours of forestlife but Krishna was brought up as a cowherd and lived as a prince.Rama kept his word but Krishna was called "ElAppoygal urAippAn,' by Godha in her Nacchiar thirumoZi, teased the gopies by his false promises! More than anything else, Rama stood for dharmathatthva and Krishna for Brahmathatthva.Rama lived and spoke like a human but Krishna was the supreme Lord through out and never disguised His divinity to those who were pure in heart.But still thereis no contradiction because the LOrd as Rama lived the life which He was going to describr in Krishnavathara through His Gita.IN this manner the two avatharas were complementary and

also a compliment to each other.. Now to come to the point of dhouthyam. Hanuman says in Sundarakanda to Sita aas well as to Rama that normally only persons of lower cadre will be sent as a messenger in order to assure sita that others in te army of Sugriva are more competent than him, which dialogue he repeats to Rama ' na hi prakrshtaa preshyanthe ,preshyanthe heethare janaah.' So perhaps the Lord doubted whether Maruthi really thoght like that and hence in Krishnavathara He Himself went as a dhootha to show the excellence of the dhouthyam to reassure Hanuman! Saroja Ramanujam May god bless you, Dr. Saroja Ramanujam, M.A., Ph.D, Siromani in sanskrit.

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