rAma lObhamEla

rAma lObhamEla nanu
rakSiJcupaTla nIkinta zrI
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Why so much miserliness for You with regard to protecting me?
sOmArka lOcana suguNa
sutrAmAdulella navvarA
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O virtuous one, who has Moon and Sun as his eyes! Won’t Indra and all others deride?
zaraNanukonna kAkAsuruni¹
rAvaNuni sOdaruni² brOva lEdA
saraguNa karini gAcina zrI
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Didn’t You protect Crow-Demon and Vibhishana who sought Your refuge? O Lord Sri Rama who protected Gajendra!
gati-lEni vELa draupadi³ vEgamE
kRSNAyana ati prEmatO
vEJcEsina mati nEDendu pOyenO
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Where has that mind vanished today which condescended to come quickly, with much love, when Draupadi, left with no other resort, called ‘Krishna’?
DEgakai⁴ mEnosaGgu
rAghavAnvayamuna bAga janmiJcina
tyAgarAjanuta zrI
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Sri Rama, praised by Tyagaraja, well-born in the dynasty of Raghu (whose King) offered his own body to the falcon!

1 kAkAsura – zrImad vAlmIki rAmAyaNa – sundara kANDa – Chapter 38 refers.

2 vibhISaNa – zrImad vAlmIki rAmAyaNa – yuddha kANDa – Chapter 18 refers.

3 draupadi – mahAbhArataM - Book 3 – vana parva - draupadi haraNa parva – Chapter 261 refers.

4 DEgakai – The following verse from zrImad-vAlmIki rAmAyaNa, ayOdhyA kANDa, Chapter 12 refers –

  • kaikEyi spoke to King dazaratha -

    • The story is also found in mahAbhArataM – vana parva – tIrtha yAtra parva – Chapters 130, 131. where it refers to King uzInara and not ‘zibi’. For full story, please visit the following sites:

      • [http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/m03/m03130.htm Sacred-Texts.com]
      • [http://www.hinduism.co.za/doing.htm#The%20Story%20of%20King%20Sibi Hinduism.co.za]
      • [http://www.salagram.net/VWHChinaJapanKorea.html Chinese/Korean version]
    • In zrImad vAlmiki rAmAyaNa, the name of ‘uzInara’ or ‘zibi’ is not found in the raghu dynasty chart read out by sage vasiSTha

    before the marriage of zrI rAma (bAlakANDa – Chapter 70 refers). However, zrI rAma mentions a different story of falcon and dove as an example in support of his decision for accepting vibhISaNa’s surrender. (yuddha kANDa – Chapter 18, verses 24-25 refers). [http://www.valmikiramayan.net/yuddha/sarga18/yuddha_18_frame.htm Link]

  • In zrImad bhAgavataM, the name of King zibi is mentioned as one of great bhAgavata – ibid – Book 2 – Chapter 7, verse 45.