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Birds of the Ramayana
Kakabhushundi
Bharat Bhushan
Birds of the Ramayana
Kakabhushundi
Bharat Bhushan
Pre-publication draft manuscript
This is not a publication
Diwali, 7 November 2010
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This is not a publication. This is a pre-publication draft
manuscript of a proposed book and is being distributed
for editing, comments, critics and suggestions. The
distribution is within a limited group of experts,
resource persons, people who are familiar with the
Ramayana, the aspects of the incarnation of Vishnu as
Rama, and those who are interested in the aspects of
development of a story.
Those who receive this pre-publication draft
manuscript may forward it those who may be able to
contribute to the editing and development of the story.
There will be errors, mistakes and contextual wrongs
galore. Please do not hesitate to point them out and
inform the author at
bharatbhushan@yahoo.com
About the book
The Birds of the Ramayana is a series that presents the
most prominent bird-characters associated with the
Ramayana. The Kakabhushundi Ramayana is attributed
to the sage who had the body of a crow, cursed and
blessed by Shiva to be always with devotion to Rama.
About the author
Bharat Bhushan
Environment Scientist, Ornithologist. Birder,
Birdwatcher, Teacher, Trainer. Eclectic and
Serendipitous Vagrant Traveller. On land, through
books, inside the internet, and deep within the mind.
Birds of the Ramayana
The sage with the body of a crow
It is thus written that Kakabhushundi, the sage who was
reborn as a crow, was the first one to narrate the
Ramayana, much before Valmiki or Shiva or Tulsidas.
There are various versions of the Ramayana. Devotees
through many centuries are familiar with the Valmiki
Ramayan, written in verse form by the Sage Valmiki,
and the Ramacharitamanas, written in near-
contemporary times by the devotee-poet, Tulsidas. Not
many devotees are familiar with the Adhyatma
Ramayana that was narrated by Shiva to Parvati, much
earlier than the Valmiki Ramayan. It is said that the
Ramayana narrated by the sage-crow, Kakabhushundi,
now known, as the Kakbhushundi Ramayan was much
earlier to the Adhyatma Ramayana.
There is a very little known story that informs about the
earlier life of Kakabhushundi. He was said to be a
mischievous disciple of Lomash Muni, who was a great
devotee of Shiva. Lomash Muni tried to get the devotee
to improve himself, but failed. Lies and disobedience
and insults progressed to such an extent that it created
much pain and anger to Shiva himself, for he could not
tolerate the hurt caused to Lomash Muni. Shiva came to
the ashrama of Lomash Muni and cursed the disciple,
and caused him to be reborn a thousand times in the
Kakabhushundi
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