Ram & Sita: Me Without You is Incomplete part13: pg18 - Page 9

its so touching...this period indeed showed how deep the devotion of
Sita's for Ram...

Originally posted by: gmgi

The sindhoor story heard differently. But I loved this version. I will definitely try to read the books you have quoted from. You are always regular in your update and it is not an easy job also.Hats off to you.👏 Thank you. Enjoyed all the updates so far.

Dialogue between Sita and Hanuman is the most beautiful part of Ramayana. There is an unmatched beauty to it. hanuman's devotion to the woman once he sees her and her love and respect for him. The choodamani giving by Sita to hanuman is treated most auspicious in my community

Originally posted by: Krishna_Sourav

its so touching...this period indeed showed how deep the devotion of
Sita's for Ram...

yes Siya Ram make their dharam above all anything...

Hanuman truly hope positive light for Siya ...

yes Apart from Lakshman its Hanuman who know the depth of SiyaRam's love...

loved the post

Originally posted by: shruthiravi

Dialogue between Sita and Hanuman is the most beautiful part of Ramayana. There is an unmatched beauty to it. hanuman's devotion to the woman once he sees her and her love and respect for him. The choodamani giving by Sita to hanuman is treated most auspicious in my community

@bheegi yes you have not mentioned choodamani and I was wondering why😃

Thank u for continuing waiting for the next part...xxx

Ram & Sita: Me Without You is Incomplete: part 9

Sundar Kanda (contd)

Sita said, "Touch Rama's feet for me. Bless the noble Lakshmana, who is the rarest treasure on earth. Tell them I will survive in this place for another month, but not a day longer. After a month, Sita will be dead. Rama must come to Lanka before the moon returns to the nakshatra where he is tonight. Or he may never see me alive again." Sita wiped her eyes. She untied a knot in one end of her yellow garment, and took out the choodamani she once wore in her hair. She gave it to Hanuman, who received it, bowing. His face lit up, and he circled round her in pradakshina. Sita said to the vanara, "Give this to Rama. He knows it well. When he sees it, he will think of my mother, of his father Dasaratha, and of me: memories of us three are upon its jewel. Everything depends on you, Hanuman; my life is in your

hands." Hanuman bowed again to her. Again, Sita said to him, "Touch my Rama's feet for me. Tell him he has one month to come to my rescue." Hanuman heard her out patiently while now she repeated herself, time and again, anxiously. At last he said, "Rama will be here sooner than you expect." Then, thinking of the vanara gone, she cried, "Must you go today? Can't you stay another day and leave tomorrow?" Hanuman looked uncomfortable. Sita sighed, "I will miss you when you have gone; you have lit my despair with a ray of hope. But I know that the sooner you leave the sooner Rama will come with the vanara army."

Menon, Ramesh (2004-05-26). The Ramayana: A Modern Retelling of the Great Indian Epic (pp. 327-328). Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Kindle Edition.

Once Hanuman is back with Ram, he narrates his meeting with Sita to a very eager man:

Hanuman said, "Sita sent this message to you: Somehow, thinking of you, I will stay alive for a month more. But after that Ravana will kill me. Save me, Rama, before the month ends' "I gave her your ring, and she was as happy as if she had seen you standing before her." He drew out the choodamani Sita had given him and handed it to Rama. Lowering his voice, Hanuman said, "She asked me to remind you of the day in Chitrakuta, when the crow attacked her. She asked me to remind you of the time when you marked her brow with the tilaka of dust from the manasila stone. She said she is waiting for you to save her, and that every moment apart from you is an abyss." Rama held the jeweled choodamani and a sob wracked him. Choking, he said to Sugriva, "Her father gave her this when we were married, and she wore it at the wedding. How beautiful she was on that day. Indra himself once gave Janaka this heirloom. When I look at it, I see Dasaratha, Janaka, and my Sita before my eyes. I feel she is here beside me." Rama shook as if with a fever, and cried to Lakshmana, "Lakshmana, I see her face when I hold this golden thing. She weeps for me, my brother."

He turned to Hanuman. "Tell me everything she said, noble Hanuman. What you say will be like water on the lips of a man dying of thirst. Oh, if she stays alive for a month, she will live longer than I will; for I will not last another moment without her. Oh, Hanuman, take me to my Sita now!" He calmed himself. "But first, tell me what she said; tell me everything."

Menon, Ramesh (2004-05-26). The Ramayana: A Modern Retelling of the Great Indian Epic (p. 349). Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Kindle Edition.

Sita's choodamani has a lot of significance in the Ramayana:

Chudamani is referred to in the Sundara Khanda of the Ramayana. The divine Chudamani was in the possession of Sita. Mata Sita was held captive by Ravana in the Ashokavana of Lanka. Hanuman met Sita as an emissary of Rama. She then gave the Chudamani to Hanuman and asked Him to carry it to Sri Rama.

Chudamani is an ornament worn on the head. It was round in shape and studded with jewels and pearls.

Legend has it that the ornament was first found by Indra in the ocean. He gave it to Dasharatha, father of Sri Rama, for helping him in defeating the demons. Another version has it that Indra gave it to Dasharatha on the successful completion of an important yajna.

Chudamani became a family ornament. Dasharatha had given it to Kaushalya. She gave it to Sita who was her daughter in law.

It is stated in Ramayana that on seeing Chudamani, Sri Rama felt as if he was seeing Mata Sita herself.

I found an interesting fact about the Tulsidas Ramcharitmanas: A unique feature of Ramacharitmanas is that at least one of the four letters s, t, r, m (symbolizing SitaRam) is present in every line of this epic.

...to be contd