The Legend of Two Bows... - Page 2

Originally posted by: .Vrish.

If Rama broke the pinaki, he should have broken the ajagava as well - why this partiality to his 'own' bow? 😈

Vayuu, the bow given to Rama by Agastya was not the Saranga - although the name 'Kodanda' doesn't appear in Valmiki.

It was saranga bro and kodanda means bow,let me give you an example in sundarkand their is a chaupayi Har kodand kathin jehi bhnja,tehi samait mad nrap dal gnja,char dushan trisira aru Vaali ,badhe sakal atulit balsali(it's in ramcharit manas)I have ramcharit manas as well as valimiki Ramayana as well as Anand Ramayana along with 18 Puranas and few uppuranas with me ,so yes it was sharanga,along with which an celestial arrow was given to Rama and khadaga think it was kaaljayi of lord shiva was given to lakshmana,with which he slayed son of srupnakha.

Look it certainly can't be ajgava coz it was with parshuram,lord Vishnu gave agastya rishi his famous bow,so if it's not ajgava it has to be sharanga,coz these are the only two bow of narayana that are mentioned in puranas and uppuranas,the four famous khadaga I have heard is ,nandak of lord Vishnu and kaaljayi,chandrahaas and ratanmaru of lord shiva,kaaljayi for lakshman,chndrahaas for Ravana and ratanmaru for lord Kalki .

Originally posted by: vayuu1

Actually no,everything you said is right except the part where lord shiva and Vishnu fighta nd hmm sound,in case you don't know the two bows of lord shiva are pinaka and vijay and two bows of lord Vishnu are sharang and ajagava,lord shiva killed three sons of tarak with pinak,that's why he is also called pinakdhrik,he however handed this bow to parshuram and told him,that their are only two people who are good enough to keep this dhanush,Vishnu bhakt devvrat and Ravana ,whomsoever you find suitable handover this bow to him,so at first he visited Lanka to test Ravana,their he saw Ravana humiliating rishi's,so at that very moment he decided to hand this dhanush to king devrat,the vijay bow was also given to him by lord shiva,which he gave to karna along with bhargavastra in regret of cursing him,lord Indra in brahaman form took both along with kavacha and kundala,other story is right,along with it the famous sharanga bow was first given to lord Rama by sage agastaya,it was also the bow of Shri krishna.

"Sharanga" is associated with Narayan / Krishna- not with Rama.

Originally posted by: .Vrish.

If Rama broke the pinaki, he should have broken the ajagava as well - why this partiality to his 'own' bow? 😈

Vayuu, the bow given to Rama by Agastya was not the Saranga - although the name 'Kodanda' doesn't appear in Valmiki.

Uh, no, Sarg 66 clearly has Janak asking Rama to just string the bow, not break it.

Thanks, Vrish- I stand corrected.

Another thing interesting is that in Sarg 66, Janak tells Vishwamitra that the bow was originally used by Rudra to disrupt Daksha's yagna. But in Sarg 75, it's mentioned that it was used to destroy Tripura.

Originally posted by: .Vrish.

Another thing interesting is that in Sarg 66, Janak tells Vishwamitra that the bow was originally used by Rudra to disrupt Daksha's yagna. But in Sarg 75, it's mentioned that it was used to destroy Tripura.

Shouldn't Mahadev have a range of bows, and not just one or 2, just like cricketers have several bats? 😆 Why use the same bow that was used against Daksha on Tripura? He should have used a different one 😆

A different question - is there any mention of Mahadev having a Vijaya bow that went to Karna via Parashurama? In any texts?

It's in Vishnu puran as well as padam puran,even ramayana's are different with different versions,in valmiki Ramayana Sita dharti mein sama jati hai in Anand ramayan Wo Samane ke baad vapis aa jati hai.