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Birds of the Ramayana
Sampati
Bharat Bhushan
Birds of the Ramayana
Sampati
Bharat Bhushan
Pre-publication draft manuscript
This is not a publication
Kartika Ekadasi, 17 November 2010
This draft copy is being distributed to invite
comments and suggestions
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Being uploaded or distributed for guidance and
suggestions in developing the story
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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. Sampati, brother of Jatayu, waited for
more than an age to await the arrival of the vanaras to
show them the route to Lanka and be of help 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
Sampati
Brother of Jatayu
Forever, the story of Sampati seems to begin and end
with the discussion with Angad, Jambavan and
Hanuman in the Kishkinda Kaanda of the Ramayan.
Most references begin explaining Sampati, and before
you know it, the story of Sampati is over. When I began
working on the “Birds of the Ramayana” project, most
friends and experts who knew the Ramayana pointed out
that I would have to work on Jatayu, and maybe, just
maybe, Garuda. The presence and drawn out
involvement of Kakabhushundi, the sage-crow, in the
Ramayana had not even been noticed, much less
remembered. Friends, who know birds, and those who
are ornithologists, presumed that the Ramayana was
choc-a-bloc filled up with birds, and perhaps that was
the reason why I had started on the project.
The story of Sampati is similar in the scale of familiarity
about Kakabhushundi. Those familiar with the
Ramayana may have even forgotten about the meeting of
the vanaras with Sampati in their search for Sita, after
Sugreeva had sent them with a time limit of a month. It
is indeed not so. Sampati and Jatayu have extremely
tremendous allegorical relevance in Indian mythology
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