Rāma as Kṛṣṇa, Rāma-Kṛṣṇa
Rāma as Kṛṣṇa, Rāma-Kṛṣṇa
Author(s): Raju Kalidos Kesava RajarajanSubject(s): Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Essay|Book Review |Scientific Life, General Reference Works, Visual Arts, Cultural Essay, Source Material, History of Art
Published by: Presa Universitara Clujeana
Keywords: Kṛṣṇa; Rāma; Rāma-Kṛṣṇa; the Rāmāyaṇas; Āḻvārs; love (paśu); viraha;
Summary/Abstract: How many are the Rāmas? Rāmaṉ ettaṉai Rāmaṉaṭi is a popular movie song. Kṛṣṇa is here (Kurukṣetra), yonder(Bṛndāvana) and everywhere (minds of devotees). The two are the principal characters in the hymns of the Āḻvārs that lead to meditate on Kṛṣṇaism and Rāmaism. They are one with the avatāras of Viṣṇu, and at the same time on either polarity from the feminine point of view; Rāma is ekapatnīvratin and Kṛṣṇa’s anekapatnī. TheĀḻvārs, cf. hymns bearing on divyadeśa-Pullāṇi (Tirumaṅkai in Periya Tirumoḻi), and some north Indian folk songs view Rāma, the beloved of several lovesick maidens. The article proposes to discover Rāma in the Bṛndāvana (cf. Fig. 5), not Aśoka-vanaṃ. In either case, philosophically the several lively women are paśus committed to ātmanivedana due to virahabhakti.
Journal: ROMANIAN JOURNAL OF INDIAN STUDIES
- Issue Year: 2019
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 33-56
- Page Count: 23
- Language: English