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Hindus are very familiar with miracles. Though miracles did happen in different parts of the world, Hindus have a unique type of miracles which is not seen in any other part of the world. Our ‘curses and boons’ are very famous. They all followed a common code of conduct. Once pronounced, even Gods can not withdraw them. So much trust in Promises, in other words Truth. They can only modify them without doing much damage. All these miracles showed the power of the word.
In Sanskrit and later Tamil literature, we see miracles of words. World famous poet Kalidasa can make one dead or make one rise him from death with his poem. Tamil saints Sambandhar and Sundarar brought the dead back from the Parallel Universe. Sambandar even changed the sex of the palmyra tree. Appar and Sambandar even opened the temple gates with their songs. Over fifty such word miracles are listed in Tamil.
Gods even wrote poems for Tamil devotees which again did miracles. Lord Shiva wrote a recommendation letter in poetic form and the Chera King (King of Kerala) immediately gave immense wealth to the bearer of the letter.
A poor Brahmin by name Dharumi got a poem from Lord Shiva and presented it to the Pandya king for money. The king had already announced that anyone who clarifies the natural fragrance of a woman’s hair will be given 1000 gold coins. When the Royal poet Nakkiran challenged the contents of the poem, Lord Shiva himself appeared as a counsel to the poor Brahmin and clarified. Even Saint Appar sang this episode in his Thevaram 1400 years ago. There are hundreds of anecdotes that show the power of word. A particular type of poem will bring death sentence to enemies. But when one apologises, they even brought them back to life.
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Homer Power
Though we don’t hear such stories in other parts of the world, there is an interesting episode about Homer’s Iliad. Homer ,the blind poet of Greece , wrote Greeks first books Iliad and Odyssey around 800 BCE. His two epics are the store-house of religion, precept and history. Westerners found solutions in them to solve their problems or to surmount their difficulties. A well known instance of this occurred when Ptolemy Philadelphos, King of Egypt sent Sostratos as his ambassador to the camp of Antigonos Gonatas , King of Macedonia.
In Short: Two kings of Greek origin in Egypt and Europe made peace when the envoy quoted a Greek poem.
Here is the full story:
Antigonos had just won a decisive naval battle against the Egyptians and it seemed Antigonos and his allies would soon overwhelm the house of Ptolemy. The Egyptian king Ptolemy ,therefore, sent Sostratos with instructions to detach, if possible, Antigonos from other allies by offering him any reasonable terms of peace. The Macedonian king Antigonos at first refused Sostratos’ offers. In despair the ambassador thought of Iliad and quoted the passage (Iliad 15-1-201) wherein Iris Zeus’ messenger reminded Poseidon that a noble heart did not fear to relent. The quotation at the same time conveyed to the king Antigonos a hint that although he had won a sea battle he was merely Lord of the Ocaen, and therefore inferior to Ptolemy whose armies like Zeus were still masters of the land. Antigonos charmed with the envoy’s ready wit abandoned his allies and made peace with Egypt.
This shows the respect and trust they had for Homer’s divine epis.
(Ptolemy and Antigonos were both Greeks, though they ruled different parts of Europe and Africa)
— Subham—
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