(ha)ramayana

holdback langoti monkeys
before it is late

By Kulamarva Balakrishna

( this is dedicated to those two
individuals who were burnt alive
in the name of Rama in a bus by
langoti monkeys on its way
to madras-chennai earlier this
week !)

= ma nishada pratishtam tvamagamah
shashvatih samah; yat krauncha
mithunad ekam avadheeh kamamohitam
=valmiki ramayana. Valmiki Ramayana
is the first known creative work,that
means =kavya= not history.It is described
that the poet Valmiki´s witnessing the
shooting of a loving krauncha bird led
him sing the verse.(=shokah shlokatva
magatah=).

The cited shloka, verse, is considered the first
spontaneous expression of the first Indian poet,
Valmiki as he saw a hunter shooting down a
krauncha bird engaged in love with its mate.
The poet felt sorry and sad as he cursed the
hunter = may you remain infamous for long as
you killed a bird making love=.

That was his inspiration to write the poetry
=ramayana=.He wrote this long creative work
almost about 24,000 verses,and taught it to the
twin children of Rama, Kusha and Lava who were
said to have performed the poem singing
and dancing as the King Rama visited the
hermitage of the poet, where they were born
to their abandoned mother Sita ,by the alleged
god himself for frivolous reasons.

They were brought up in the hermitage by the
sage.

The story continues to grow even today, as new
versions of the the so called =history= are being
added. The latest ones being in Kannada is
penned none other than Veerappa Moily, a former
Chief Mninister of Karnataka state of the
murders in the name of god!

The original Ramayana by the sage Valmiki
was written soon after Buddha´s time around
the fourth century before Christ. The new
versions of the story had been added from
Burma, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and
Cambodia.

In the Indian subcontinent Arabic origin
Muslims of Kerala made their own version
calling it =Mapillapattu=, according to
Wikipedia.

The version is popular among the Muslim
of Laksha dveepa (lakdivis) islands as well.
The Malaysian version, said to cite the
origin of the story to Allah himself!

So which version is the authentic one?
It is upto the langoti monkies led by Mr.
Lal Krishna Advani to clarify. In any
case Mr.Advani followers have no
justification to get excited and kill innocent
people traveling to Tamilnadu simply
because the langoti monkies did not
like the remarks made by Tamil Nadu
Chief Minister, M.Karunanidhi
questoning the authenticity of the Rama
episode.

If I am not mistaken, In Kannada language
itself there is a Jaina version of Ramayana
=Ramachandra charita puranam= written
by the great tenth century poet, Pampa.
Then in 16th century Torave Narahari
wrote a version of Ramayana,which became
popular as =Torave Ramayana=.

In Tamil, poet Kamban wrote a Ramayana.
In Hindi Saint Tulsidas wrote the story
of Ramayana as =Ramacharitamanas=.
Kannada´s poet K.V.Puttappa has written
a free verse Ramayana with the title
=Shri Ramayana Darshanam=. A Telugu
contemporary Satyanarayana has
received Bharatiya Jnanapith Award
established by a trust deed by the late Rama
Jain!

The original poetry written by Valmiki
is in simple Sanskrit language.The quality
of the poetry is unsurpassed even today
by new award winning poets. Particularly,
the fifth book of Sundarakanda depicting
the langotiless Hanuman hopping
into Sri Lanka in search of kidnapped
heroine Sita is very profound.

Later,the playwright poet Kalidasa,
has written the Ramayana story as
if it is a historic poetry, naming it
=Raghuvamsha= (like shanama).
Raghu was the great grand father of
Rama traced to Sun clan of princes.

Hindu vertical gossip, later known
as Bhagavata Purana counts Shri Rama
is considered the seventh incarnation
of god.It took place about 880,148 years
ago in the second era of (treta) the so
called four =yugas=.

It is a matter of belief.Belief is voluntary.
The conviction those who do not believe
should be beheaded or killed is new to
Hinduism. But langoti monkies of today
practice terrorist violence inviting the
next round of global anti-terrorism
campaign against themselves!

I would not be surprised after the
anti-Al Queda campaign ends, the world
is led to launch a war against Hindus
represented by langoti monkies.
I hope the human smuggler Hindus
choose to avoid this eventulaity.(end)