Birth of An Epic

__O thou lowly hunter, Let no glory may ever grace Thee for endless years-- still later, To have slain, and so merciless A pair of swans in love embrace. __________________________________ Sanskrit: ma nishada pratishtham tvam agamah shashvatih samah | yat krauncha mithunat ekam avadhih kama-mohitam || Sage Valmiki was so moved when he saw a hunter’s arrow killing a pair of swans lost in love embrace that a shloka (verse) came up to his tongue as above. Enraged, he cursed the hunter. And this inspired him to write the epic Ramayana. He is considered as adi kavi, the first or the oldest known poet. Ramayana happened even before Mahabharata. ____________________________________ Happenings | 22.02.2019 |