This has been till date the most interesting piece that i have ever read. Never imagined people doing that to Robindra Da. Sick, funny & hilarious to imagine.
Beethoven’s contemporary, Goethe, is reported to have said, famously, "more light" as he lay dying: these words created a lasting impression, to the extent that Rabindranath Tagore wrote to his niece Indira, "How I cherish light and space! Goethe on his death-bed wanted ‘more light’. If I am capable of expressing my desire then, it will be for ‘more light and more space’." (11) Indeed, it is Tagore’s "space" that, in his final moments, was being violated by his admirers: as they tugged at the poet’s beard, so that each might get a specimen of the great man’s hair, Tagore is described as imploring and admonishing them with the words, "Chede dao, Chede dao", "Leave me alone! Leave me alone!"
source: http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/southasia/History/Gandhi/HeRam_gandhi.html
Monday, January 29, 2007
Many Ramayanas
Many Ramayanas
A list of languages in which the Rama story is found makes one gasp: Annamese, Balinese, Bengali, Cambodian, Chinese, Gujarati, Javanese, Kannada, Kashmiri, Khotanese, Laotian, Malaysian, Marathi, Oriya, Prakrit, Sanskrit, Santali, Sinhalese, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Tibetan—to say nothing of Western languages. Through the centuries, some of these languages have hosted more than one telling of the Rama story. Sanskrit alone contains some twenty-five or more tellings belonging to various narrative genres. Add plays, dance-dramas, and other performances, in both the classical and folk traditions, the number of Ramayanas grows even larger. Camille Bulcke, a student of the Ramayana , counted three hundred tellings.
Subtle differences in Ramayanas:
Valmikis - Ram is not god, as this is a human avatar he is bound by certain rules
Kampan/Tulsidas - Ram is god
Jain Ramayana - Ram is a sage and will not commit any evil. Hence Ravana is killed by Laxman and laxman goes to hell for this.
Source: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft3j49n8h7/
A list of languages in which the Rama story is found makes one gasp: Annamese, Balinese, Bengali, Cambodian, Chinese, Gujarati, Javanese, Kannada, Kashmiri, Khotanese, Laotian, Malaysian, Marathi, Oriya, Prakrit, Sanskrit, Santali, Sinhalese, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Tibetan—to say nothing of Western languages. Through the centuries, some of these languages have hosted more than one telling of the Rama story. Sanskrit alone contains some twenty-five or more tellings belonging to various narrative genres. Add plays, dance-dramas, and other performances, in both the classical and folk traditions, the number of Ramayanas grows even larger. Camille Bulcke, a student of the Ramayana , counted three hundred tellings.
Subtle differences in Ramayanas:
Valmikis - Ram is not god, as this is a human avatar he is bound by certain rules
Kampan/Tulsidas - Ram is god
Jain Ramayana - Ram is a sage and will not commit any evil. Hence Ravana is killed by Laxman and laxman goes to hell for this.
Source: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft3j49n8h7/
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