SRI RAGHAVENDRA SWAMY’S
SRI RAMACHARITRYA MANJARI
(ಶ್ರೀ ರಾಘವೆಂದ್ರ ಸ್ವಾಮಿ ವಿರಚಿತ “ಶ್ರೀ
ರಾಮಚಾರಿತ್ರ್ಯ ಮಂಜರಿ)
After Srirama threw away the corpse of Dundubhi by
merely pushing it with his toe end, Sugreeva seemed unconvinced. He said when
Vali had thrown the corpse of Dundubhi, it had flesh, blood, nerves and bones
within and hence it was quite heavy. Several years had elapsed since Vali threw
the corpse of Dundubhi and when Srirama threw the corpse, it was very light as
it had become a heap of skeleton. Vali had thrown the heavy corpse to a
distance of One Yojana. Although you have thrown it to 100 Yojanas, it cannot
be concluded that your strength is 100 times more, compared to that of Vali.
Sugreeva concluded: “Because of all these considerations, I still not confident
of your strength.” Sugreeva was in two minds. He was not happy with himself for
trying to judge the capacity of the Omnipotent. But, he had seen his brother
Vali and his prowess. Moreover, Vali had remained indefatigable in front of
Sugreeva’s eyes. He was afraid of the fact that he was exhibiting his narrow
mindedness, meek mentality and silly way he was asking Srirama to prove his
strength. Therefore, as Sri Madhwacharyaru has stated in his Mahabharata
Tatparya Nirnaya, Sugreeva and his voice was trembling with the fear of Srirama
getting upset with too many tests being imposed and the fear of unnecessarily
inviting trouble by prompting Srirama to fight against Vali, the most powerful,
furious and invincible enemy-turned brother.
Earlier, seven demons had done penance in the name of
Lord Brahma and had secured a boon of not getting killed by anyone. With intent
to unseat Lord Brahma from his position and occupy his seat, they decided to do
penance once again. They thought that if they were to do penance in their physical
form, they might get identified by deities and other enemies and might pose
problems for the penance. Therefore, they decided to do penance by wearing the
form of trees so that they would not be identified by anyone and that they
could complete he penance without any impediment.
This was the reason; Sugreeva was prompted by Lord
Hari to finally ask Srirama to destroy those seven Palm trees, who were
originally demons with the bad intention of unseating Lord Brahma. Sugreeva was
unaware of this. Srirama, an incarnation of Lord Vishnu, is Omniscient, which
was not known to the demons.
Srirama destroyed those demons with a single arrow.
Apart from those demons, there were another set of demons named “Kumudi”
residing under the palm trees. The arrow of Srirama destroyed those “Kumudi”
demons too as they had also secured a boon of not getting killed by anyone.
Sugreeva did not know and therefore he had not asked Srirama to kill any demon.
Srirama had, by killing those demons in the form of Palm Trees and by killing
the “Kumudi” demons underneath, relieved the universe from the torture they
were planning to inflict in the future. The single arrow accomplished these
tasks to show that even the weapons, the jewels worn by the Lord, his clothes
etc., have the same brain, knowledge, strength and vivacity.
Another important aspect of throwing the corpse of
Dundubhi is that underneath the spot where that corpse fell, innumerable
demons, who had “secured eternity through boon bestowed by Lord Rudra”, who
were staying there.
The extraordinary tasks accomplished with utmost ease
by Srirama shows to the universe that He “is the Supreme Lord”, who cannot be
matched by anyone else.
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