Adhikavya Ramayana - "Sundara Kaandam" - Sarga 14 (Ch14) - "Ashokavanika Vichaya" (Sage Valmiki)

Sri-devi-Bhudevi Sahitha Sri Devadirajan Perumal (as Thirukudandhai Sarangapani Alangaaram) & Sri Sita - Lakshmana Sahitha Sri Ramachandra (Kodandarama) Seva @ My Home Thirumaligai during Rama Navami Utsavam (April 11-19, 2013). The accompanying (Sundara Kaanda Parayanam - Traditional Recitation) is rendered by Sri. Srivatsa Ramaswamy.
Sundara Kanda is considered very important. Reciting Sundara Kandam is said to give material as well as spiritual benefits to both, one who recites as well as one who listens to it. The recital (5-7-9-11 days) would culminate with Ramar Pattabishekam Chapter from Yuddha Kaandam, on the final day.
aapadaam apahartaaram daataaram sarvasaMpadaam.h .
lokaabhiraamam shriiraamam bhuuyo bhuuyo namaamyaham.h ..
" I bow again and again to Sree Rama who removes (all) obstacles and grants all wealth and pleases all. "
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Srimad Valmiki Ramayana is an epic poem of India which narrates the journey of Virtue to annihilate vice. Sri Rama is the Hero and aayana His journey. We in India believe that Sri Rama lived in Treta Yug, millennia BC and we are presently concerned with what Srimad Valmiki Ramayana tells us, rather than when it was told. This epic poem Ramayana is a smriti which is translated as "from memory". Given the antiquity of Srimad Valmiki Ramayana, there have been some interjected verses. Sometimes these verses can be contradicting. However, scholars, grammarians, historians have put lot of effort to standardize the original text, by verifying various manuscripts available from various parts of India, thus trying to stabilize and save the text from further contradictions. An example of this effort is the critical edition of Srimad Valmiki Ramayana. This site aims to study various versions of Srimad Valmiki Ramayana and arrive at a version of Ramayana that is most relevant to modern times. Srimad Valmiki Ramayana is composed of verses called Sloka, in Sanskrit language, which is an ancient language from India and a complex meter called Anustup. These verses are grouped into individual chapters called Sargas, wherein a specific event or intent is told. These chapters or sargas are grouped into books called Kaandas where Kaanda means the inter-node stem of sugar cane, or also a particular phase of the story or an event in the course of story telling.
Thus the structure of Srimad Valmiki Ramayana is arranged into six Kaandas or Books, and they are:
Bala Kanda ( Book of Youth) [77 chapters], Ayodhya Kanda (Book of Ayodhya) [119 chapters], Aranya Kanda (Book of Forest ) [75 chapters], Kishkindha Kanda (The Empire of Holy Monkeys) [67 chapters], Sundara Kanda ( Book of Beauty ) [68 chapters], Yuddha Kanda ( Book of War ) [128 chapters]
In the Vishnu Sahasranama, Rama is the 394th name of Vishnu. In the interpretation of Adi Shankara's commentary, translated by Swami Tapasyananda of the Ramakrishna Mission, Rama has two meanings: the supreme Brahman who is the eternally blissful spiritual Self in whom yogis delight, or the One (i.e., Vishnu) who out of His own will assumed the enchanting form of Rama, the son of Dasaratha.
Rama's day and time of birth, as well as marriage to Sita are celebrated by Hindus across the world as Rama Navami. It falls on the ninth day of a Hindu lunar year, or Chaitra Masa Suklapaksha Navami. This day is observed as the marriage day of Rama and Sita as well as the birthday of Rama. People normally perform Kalyanotsavam (marriage celebration) for small statues of Rama and Sita in their houses and at the end of the day the idols are taken in a procession on the streets. This day also marks the end of nine day utsavam called Vasanthothsavam (Festival of Spring), that starts with Ugadi.