By Kambar (Kavichakravarthy Kamban)
Translated in English by P. R Ramachander
Kamba Ramayanam-Yudha Kandam 1 (Padalam 1)
1. Kadal kaan Padalam
Chapter on seeing of the ocean.
(The army of Rama reach the shore of the ocean in the southern India.Rama and others think about how to cross the ocean. Ravana learns about their arrival, Valmiki’s Yudha Kanda begins with arrival of Rama, non the banks of southern sea , his consultations with monkey chiefs as to how to cross the sea,.)
6060. Making the Meru mountain which is not destroyed at deluge ,And the ocean and earth which never dries up to sink down,And making the mountains and earth of the southern part sink,That seventy vellam of monkey army reached the southern sea full of fish.
6061. Surrounded on all sides by that very huge army , Lord Rama ,Who has eyes which had not closed even at night , when the group ,Of honey filled lotus flowers were also sleeping due to the paring with,Lady Sita who wore the bangles of conches, saw the Southern ocean.
6062. The huge expanse of the ocean with tides under the impression,That enchanter who has gone away from them has come in search of his bed ,And is likely to sleep , made the breeze sweep away the pure , white foam,And scattered the pearls on its surface , so that it appeared as his bed.
6063. The pretty golden shoulders of Rama which were aimed by the bad name ,Caused by sorrowing of Sita who was immersed in the sea of tears,And the flower arrows of the God of love , was made wet by those droplets,Of that tumultuous ocean with very huge tides, brought up by the Breeze.
6064. In spite of seeing the depressed Rama whose looks were different from ,How he looked one day before , the hard hearted breeze without any mercy,Which came toddling on the ocean , which was wailing with great sorrow,Would definitely apply the paste of the small flowers of punnai tree which rains honey.
6065. The creeper of corals which had spread on the banks of that ocean Was similar to the pretty mouth of the very chaste Sita ,Whose chastity was praised by all the seven worlds , standing before Rama,With famished shoulders looking like mountain and was like ,The god of death standing before him to drink away his soul.
6066. “Oh pearl, The place where the peacock lady is there is not far off,”Thought Rama , who was a great archer with valorous bow having great respect,And whose body was daily becoming thinner further thought ,”Oh pearl,Showing may the nature of the teeth of lady Sita , are you trying to kill my respect,.What is your relationship with those Asuras who do not like anybody?”
6067. The ocean , with folding tides, knowing that Sita with the crescent like forehead ,Was suffering due to limitless sorrow and the pearl like tears that Rama has shed ,Thinking “Is it proper for that lady born out of penance getting depressed .And living alone among those Asuras?” Comes out with tides looking,Like spread hands and unable to wipe way his tears falls at his feet.
6068. That pretty ocean , for cooling down the body of Rama, boiling due to parting with Sita,Taking the world carried by the serpent on which Lord Vishnu sleeps as the stone for grinding,Sprinkling and rotating the pure water produces using sandal wood, ,The white foam of the sandal paste by grinding with her tide like hands .
6069. That pretty ocean seeing the very angry Rama the king of the kosala country with ganges,Standing holding a quiver and a fierce bow , which created scare to all his enemies.For the sake of removing the sorrow of Sita who is like a koel with breasts And to solve the problems of the Devas , became very happy and,Using its hands which were the tides was welcoming Rama.
6070. Lord Rama after reaching such a huge black ocean , felt as if,His own respect , sorrow and love where seven times larger than the ocean,And thought about the nature of the future actions that he need to perform,And stayed on the banks of the ocean and wewill now talk about ,The happenings in Lanka after Hanuman visited it and the uses of that visit.
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About Kavichakravarthy Kamban
Historians place him in the 9th century CE, But surely Kamban belongs to the third great wave of Tamizh literature that started with the Sangam period (dated before the Common Era), followed by the widespread impact of Bhakti literature of the Alwars (vaishnavite saints) & Nayanamars (shaivaite saints). Kamban Authored Ramanaya in Tamil…Known as Kamba Ramayanam..
Kambar has been the milestone for the Tamil scholars that none had reached. He was also known as “Kamba Naatazhvar” at his time. Many Tamil authors from the modern world have written the books on the poet Kamban.
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Kambar or Kavichakravarthy Kamban (1180–1250) was a medieval Tamil poet and the author of the Ramavataram, popularly known as Kambaramayanam, the Tamil version of the epic Ramayana.
Valmiki Ramayana and Kamba Ramayanam are two versions of Ramayana written in the Sanskrit and Tamil languages respectively. … Kamba Ramayanam is originally called as Ramavataram. Although Valmiki Ramayana is the original version of the story of Rama, Kamba Ramayana is believed to be based on the work by Valmiki.
The Kamba Ramayanam, is a Tamil epic that was written by the Tamil poet Kambar during the 12th century. Based on Valmiki’s Ramayana (which is in Sanskrit), the story describes the life of King Rama of Ayodhya.
The book is divided into six chapters, called Kandam in Tamil. The Kandams are further divided into 123 sections called Padalam (படலம்) in Tamil. These 123 sections contain approximately 12,000 verses of the epic.