[Advaita-l] Bhagavan Rama

[Raghav Kumar Dwivedula]

Namaste Kaushik
I understand the uttara khANDda is not part of the original Valmiki
Ramayana.

The current scholarship even amongst the astikas indicates it may have been
later composition not by Valmiki.

In other words the original Valmiki Ramayana employs the vipralambha rasa
(of separation). The story starts with the death of one of the two cranes
who were a loving couple. Then there is the separation of shravanakumara
from his parents. And Dasharatha from Rama and finally mother Sita from
Rama. The Valmiki Ramayana ends with the coronation of Rama.

Now, a later author, a few thousands of years after Valmiki Maharshi, it
would appear used the same rasa of vipra-lambha to write the famous uttara
khANDa grantha in which mother Sita is against separated from Rama and then
successively all the brothers and Hanuman are also separated from Rama one
by one.

But there are enough references within Valmiki Ramayana attesting to the
divinity of Rama particularly at the end when the Rishis remind Rama of his
divinity.

I was hoping these older original references are collated at some place.


Om
Raghav





On Thu, 10 Oct, 2024, 5:38 pm Kaushik Chevendra via Advaita-l, <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 10 Oct 2024 at 4:50 PM, Kaushik Chevendra <
> chevendrakaushik at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Namaste.
> > In recent times many have started to claim that Ramachandramurthy was
> only
> > a human in the Valmiki Ramayana and was later extolled as god. Even
> popular
> > preachers in telugu have started this nonsense. But upon
> > visiting the Ramayana one can see that these claims hold no water.
> > Here is a discussion between lord rama and death-
> > Valmiki Ramayana 67.104
> >
>
> Sorry please read the above as 7.104
>
> >
>
>
> >
> >
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