Srimad Ramayana Tatva Deepika#77 (Ba:la Ka:nda)

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Jeeyar Thiruvadigale Saranam!

Srimathe Ramanujayanamaha!!

 

Valmiki maharshi having decided to pen Sri Ramayanam, did a:chamanam and

sat on the mat of darbha grass whose ends were eastward and started

composing it. As he decided in his mind and commenced his work, the

story of Rama in its entirety appeared before his mind’s eye clearly.

 

He restricted it to twenty four thousand slokas. There are five hundred

sargas and six ka:nda:s. He later authored ‘Uttara Ka:nda’ also. When

Valmiki was thinking who could learn it and utilise it, the boys in the

munis’ attire, great singers and the sons of the king, Kusa and Lava

came and touched his feet and paid obeisance to him. They were Sri

Rama’s children staying with their mother Sitha in the asram. They were

brilliant, well versed in the Vedas and Valmiki taught them Sri Ramayana

to make the essence of Vedas clear to them. The whole of Ramayana

expounds the story of Sitha. So Valmiki kept ‘Sitha’s story’ or

‘Poulasthya vadha’ as the main story line and composed Ramayan.

 

It had been written to be read and to be sung as well. The sweetness

available in this kavya is not present in any other work. It is fit to

be sung in ‘dhritha’ ‘madhya’ and ‘vilamba’ gathis It can be very well

played on Veena. It consists of the ‘saptha jathis’. It is pleasant -

packed with all the ‘nava rasas’ like the ‘karunarasa Sringara rasa

etc.

 

Third sarga tatva deepika concluded.......

Jaisrimannarayana!!

Ramanujamma Mudumbai, Ramanuja dasi.