If rAma is wonderful and his nAma sweet - it's powerful because of his #bakthas ... Will start this thread and add a few - request you to add names and stories of rama bakthas that you know have heard from ur region language and culture 🙏. Let it grow like the tail of Hanuman
Ofcourse on top of that list has to be #hanuman himself - the seeker of rama rasa in everything - he is there wherever the name of rAma is taken
यत्र यत्र रघुनाथकीर्तनं
तत्र तत्र कृतमस्तकांजलिम् ।
वाष्पवारिपरिपूर्णालोचनं
मारुतिं नमत राक्षसान्तकम् ॥
यत्र यत्र रघुनाथकीर्तनं
तत्र तत्र कृतमस्तकांजलिम् ।
वाष्पवारिपरिपूर्णालोचनं
मारुतिं नमत राक्षसान्तकम् ॥
2. This list is in no particular order but will start of with the mahan Thyagaraja Swami... This prolific bard from thiruvaiyaaru hardly two centuries ago is the reason that rAma nAma resonates in every child's voice and in every music concert in the south and all over the world
3. The rAma nAma sampradaya in the south owes so much to nAma bodhendraL 17th century - who used to recite a koti rama namas every day. A yati in the kanchi jagadguru lineage . At his adishtanam near the cauvery the sadhaka can still hear the chant of rama nama
4. Also from the 17th century is Kancherla Gopanna popularly known as badrachalam ramadasu credited with the reconstruction of the temple at badrachalam on the godavari and beautiful krutis of piety. Incarcerated by the nizam for 12 years his songs request mercy from the lord
To continue - pls add to this thread - make it ramas
Arguably the greatest Tamil poet - #kamba sang the #ramavataram closely following the Valmiki Ramayana - his Ramayana was first sang publicly in the srirangam temple near the mettu azhagiya singar sannidhi
One of the finest exponents of the #Ramayana upanyasa was paruttiyur Krishna SastrigaL. A disciple of sengalipuram mutthanavaL at the turn of the 20th century he built the rama temple in paruthiyur. Modern ramayana upanyasa owes much to him. He is the last recorded instance of a person attaining kapala moksham on the day of muthannavals aradhana @RamchandRaman
In the 18th century from the village of #thillayadi in TN hailed Arunachala Kavirayar. A scholar of Sanskrit and Tamil and deeply devoted to kamba. He owned a pawn shop - kasukkadai. He wrote the rama nataka krutis interestingly the first from yuddha Kanda - the inspiration coming from two of his disciples who learnt kamba ramayana - Venkatarama Iyer and Kodanda Rama Iyer. Like kamba he did the arangetram of the rama natakam in srirangam
Forgot to add that the PM @narendramodi @narendramodi_in shared one of the most famous songs from the Kavirayar recently
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