Doubts and Discussions from the Ramayan II - Page 72

Originally posted by: jagdu

V.B,

There is a story that goes where Lord Rama has to cross a river during his 14 year sojourn at the forest. He is hungry and asks the fisherman for some food. The fisherman says I only have some grapes, can you please share with me?

Rama gladly accepts.

He eats half of each grape, and the fisherman eats the other half.

At which point, there is a poem called meethe meethe chaak chaak.

Have you heard of this poem?

If so can you please divulge??

Originally posted by: Khalrika

Lalitha, u can get Valmiki Ramayan from Gita Press. It is very good. I bought it from Gita press from right here in the US. Just go to their website. I googled Gita press and got the link. Also, U can get Ramcharitmanas also from the US. Go to Chinmaya Mission US (I went to Chinmaya Mission West as I live on the west coast) and clicked on their link to "Publications" I think that is how the link is named. I think they have an English translation.

Originally posted by: Mallika113

Hey friends, wanted to let you know of some happy news about Chen2Chic, Deepa. She had a happy and a healthy baby boy on Feb 1, 2010.

My heartiest congratulations to her and her family and may God bless this little baby boy !😃

Originally posted by: Vibhishna

Yes, and Sushen had been by Lakshman's side when he had been hurt and Hanuman did not have to fetch him from anywhere. I too wondered where that bit came from.

I remember reading somewhere that Sushen was Tara's father (that makes him Vali's father-in-law) but I don't know how true it is.

Also Hanuman's father Kesari aided this campaign with his own army and he too participated in the war. I think Kesari was the king of a province called Sumer - not sure about this.

In Jai Hanuman, they showed a different story from what we have seen in NDTVI Ramayan. Here they showed that Vali was the reason for the death of Mayavi's wife. In Jai Hanuman Mayavi seeks Vali for killing his brother Dhundubi. And as per this story, it was Ravan who sent Dhundubi to kill Vali.

The story of Jai Hanuman is so different. 😕

Originally posted by: Vrisha

Yesterday, I finally got hold of Srimad Valmiki Ramayan, from Gita Press. This was @ the Kolkata Book Fair, which ends today, and I also got hold of a Krittivas Ramayan (Bengali). The prices were fantastic - Rs150 for each of the 2 volumes of Valmiki, and Rs 100 for the Krittivas version.

The Valmiki Ramayan has the original Sanskrit, followed by English translations, but skips transliterations altogether (unlike ValmikiRamayan.net). The Krittivas version, otoh, is written in poetry format in 14/15th century Bengali, and no translations, which makes it slow for me, since my Bengali ain't fluent. But it would be interesting to see what variations they have as well from Valmiki, Vyasa, Kamban & Tulsidas. But it'll probably take me a while.

Originally posted by: Mallika113

Hey friends, wanted to let you know of some happy news about Chen2Chic, Deepa. She had a happy and a healthy baby boy on Feb 1, 2010.

My heartiest congratulations to her and her family and may God bless this little baby boy !😃

Originally posted by: Vrisha

Yesterday, I finally got hold of Srimad Valmiki Ramayan, from Gita Press. This was @ the Kolkata Book Fair, which ends today, and I also got hold of a Krittivas Ramayan (Bengali). The prices were fantastic - Rs150 for each of the 2 volumes of Valmiki, and Rs 100 for the Krittivas version.

The Valmiki Ramayan has the original Sanskrit, followed by English translations, but skips transliterations altogether (unlike ValmikiRamayan.net). The Krittivas version, otoh, is written in poetry format in 14/15th century Bengali, and no translations, which makes it slow for me, since my Bengali ain't fluent. But it would be interesting to see what variations they have as well from Valmiki, Vyasa, Kamban & Tulsidas. But it'll probably take me a while.