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Anamika story in Vana Parva of Mahabharata; Chapters 205 and 206
Anaamikaa= nameless woman i.e. Anonymous
English word Anonymous is derived from Sanskrit word Anamika. (Pronunciation- anaamikaa)
Yudhisthira put a question to sage Markandeya about the place of women in life.
“That a woman carries a child in her womb for ten months, and gives birth at the ripe time, what can be more awesome than that?
Often with danger to her life a woman bears a child gives birth in great pain and brings up her children with tender care- this seems to me to be even more difficult.
Still more difficult, indeed exceedingly difficult, is how woman look after a husband who is uncaring and cruel, from whom they receive only insulting behaviour, and yet, regardless, they live in the truth of their own dharma”.
Markandeya narrated the story of arrogant Brahmin Kaushika.
Kaushika was brahmin who mastered all scriptures and did severe penance. One day, sitting under a tree he was reciting Veda. A bird sitting on the same tree soiled his clothes. In great anger he looked at the bird and the bird instantly fell dead. Then he set out on his daily round of begging for food, what is called Biksha (Tamil word Pichchai is derived from it.)
He had arrived at a house and gave the customary call. Ane the woman answered from inside the house, ‘Please wait’.
The mistress of the house took some time and Kaushika became very angry. When she came out with food, he reproached her.
She apologised for the delay and told that her husband came just before he cam for food. She had been attending on her husband and hence the delay.
Kaushika raised his voice in ager and said,
“So, for you, your husband is has greater importance than a Brahmana. Even Gods bow their head to Brahmanas, what to say about the mortals. You arrogant woman. Don’t you know the power of Brahmanas? They are like fire. If they wish they can burn the whole earth.
Nameless woman/Anaamikaa, said to him,
“Don’t be angry, Sir! I meant no disrespect to you, but I am not that little bird that you reduced to ashes with your anger. What can your ngr do to me? It cannot touch me even remotely”
“The dharma I obtain from taking care of my husband is what I delight in. I put him in a place higher than even the Gods.
It is the kind of life that I live , ordinary, but in devotion to my husband , that brought me some powers too.
Just see that is how I have the foreknowledge of your burning with your anger that little bird. But, Sir, anger is the enemy that resides in man’s body.
This is in Tamil Veda Tirukkural too,
தெய்வம் தொழாஅள் கொழுநன் தொழுதெழுவாள்
பெய்யெனப் பெய்யும் மழை.- குறள் 55
Even rains fall at the command of the wife Who upon rising worships not God, but her husband- Tirukkural 55.
Sanskrit (संस्कृतम्)
पतिमेव हरिं मत्वा प्रातर्या भजते ऽन्वहम् ।
त्वं वर्षेंति तंयाऽऽशप्तो देवोपि किल वर्षति ॥ (५५)
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Woman said to Kaushika, before leaving,
“Sir if you do not know what Dharma (rightful conduct) is, you should learn it from Dharmavyadha, a meat seller, by going to Mithila. He takes care of his parents. He is truthful and a man of self -control. Should I have said more than I should have, or something offensive, forgive me. Those who live in dharma know also that women are adandaniya, above punishment”
Kaushika said to the woman,
I am very pleased with you. My anger has vanished. Then he went to Mithila and met Dharmavyadha.
To be continued……………….
Similar story is told in Tamil about a Siddha saint called Konkanava. கொக்கென்று நினைத்தாயோ கொங்கணவா?
Hey You Konkanava, Did you think that I am like that bird heron/stork (you burnt a while ago)?
–subham—
Tags- power of woman, arrogant Brahmin, Kaushika, Mahabharata, Vana parva, husband is god, woman is unpunishable. கொக்கென்று நினைத்தாயோ, கொங்கணவா
Tamil and Vedas 