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Sri Brahmanah Uchuh.
Partha prajavita sakshat ikshakuriva manavah.
Brahmanya satyasandhyascha ramo dasrathir yatha.
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Sri Brahmanah—the good soul Brahmins, Uchuh—said, Partha—oh the son of Pritha (Kunti), Praja—those who are born, Avita—maintainer, Sakshat—directly, Ikshakuriva—exactly like king Ikshaku, Manavah—son of Manu, Brahmanya—followers and respectful to the Brahmins, Satyasandas—truthful by promise, Cha—also, Rama—the Personality of Godhead Rama, Dasarathir—the son of Maharaj Dasarath, Yatha—like him.
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The learned Brahmins said, "Oh the son of Pritha this child shall be exactly like the King Ikshaku son of Manu in the matter of maintaining all those who are born in the matter of following the Brahminical principles specially to be true to one's promise, he shall be exactly like Rama the Personality of Godhead, the son of Maharaj Dasarath".
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"Praja" means the living being who has taken its birth in the material world. Actually the living being has no birth, no death but on account of his separation from the service of the Lord and due to his desire to Lord it over the material nature, he is offered a suitable body to satisfy his material desires. In doing so one becomes conditioned by the laws of material nature and the material body is changed in terms of his own work. The living entity thus transmigrates from one body to another in 84 lakhs species of life. But due to its becoming the parts and parcel of the Lord they are not only maintained with all necessaries of life by the Lord, but also they are protected by the Lord and His representatives the saintly kings. These saintly kings would give protection to all the Prajas or living beings to live and to fufill their terms of imprisonment. Maharaj Parikshit, was actually an ideal saintly king because while touring over his kingdom he happened to see that a poor cow was being attempted to be killed by the personified Kali and he at once took him to task as a murderer. This means even the animals were given protection of life by the saintly administrators not from any sentimental point of view but from the fact of right of living for those who have taken their birth in the world. All the saintly kings beginning from the King of the Sun globe, down to the king of the earth all are so inclined by the influence of the Vedic literatures. The Vedic literatures are taught in other higher planets also as we have reference in the Bhagwat Geeta (B.G. 4/1) about the teachings to the Sun-god (Vivaswan) by the Lord and such lessons are transferred by disciplic succession as it was done by the Sun-god to his son Manu and from Manu to Maharaj Ikshaku. There are fourteen Manus in one day of Brahma (see page 163 1st Vol.) and the Manu referred to herein is the seventh Manu who is one of the Prajapatis (those who create progeny) and he is the son of the Sun-god. He is known as the Vivaswata Manu. He had ten sons and Maharaj Ikshaku is one of them. Maharaj Ikshaku also learnt the Bhaktiyoga as taught in the Bhagwat Geeta from his father Manu who got it from his father the Sun-god. Later on the teaching of the Bhagwat Geeta came down by disciplic succession from Maharaj Ikshaku but in course of time the chain got broken by unscupulous persons and therefore, again it had to be taught to Arjuna in the battle field of Kurukshetra. So all the Vedic literatures are current from the very beginning of creation of the material world and thus the Vedic literatures are known as Apourasheya (not made by man). The Vedic knowledge was spoken by the Lord and first heard by Brahma the first created living being within the universe.
#$p##b#Maharaj Ikshaku#/b#:- One of the sons of Vivaswata Manu. He had one hundred sons. He prohibited meat eating. His son Sasad became the next King after his death.
#$p##b#Manu#/b#:- The Manu mentioned in this verse as the father of Ikshaku is the seventh Manu of the name Vaivaswata Manu the son of Sun-god Vivaswan whom Lord Krishna instructed the teachings of Bhagwata Geeta prior to His teaching the same to Arjuna. The mankind is the descendant of Manu and there is a symmetry between Manu and the man. This Vaivaswata Manu had ten sons of the name Bena, Dhrishnu, Nariswanta, Nabhag, Ikshaku, Karush, Saryati, Ila, Prisaghra, Nabhagarista. The Lord's incarnation Matsya (the gigantic fish) was advented during the beginning of Vaivaswata Manu's reign (see page 173/Vol. l) He learnt the principles of Bhagwat Geeta from his father Vivaswan the sun-god and he re-instructed the same to his son Maharaj Ikshaku. In the beginning of the Treta yuga the sun-god instructed devotional service to his son Manu and Manu in his turn instructed the same to his Ikshaku for welfare of the whole human society.
#$p##b#Lord Rama#/b#:- The Supreme Personality of Godhead incarnated Himself as Sri Rama accepting the sonhood of His pure devotee Maharaj Dasarath the King of Ayodhya. Lord Rama descended along with His plenary-portions and all of them appeared as His younger brothers. In the month of Chaitra on the 9th day of growing moon in the Treta Yuga the Lord appeared, as usual, to establish the principles of religion and to annihilate the disturbing elements. When He was just a young boy, He helped the great sage Viswamitra by killing Subahu and striking Marichi the she demon who were disturbing the sages in their daily discharge of duties. The Brahmins and the Kshatriyas are meant for cooperation for welfare of the mass of people. The Brahmins who were all sages do endeavour to enlighten the people of the world by perfect knowledge and the Kshatiyas are meant for their protection. Lord Rama Chandra is the ideal king for maintaining and protecting the highest culture of humanity known as Brahmanya Dharma. The Lord is specifically the protector of the cows and the Brahmins and by doing so He enhances the prosperity of the world. He rewarded the administrative demigods by effective weapons for conquering over the demons through the agency of Viswamitra. He was present in the bow-sacrifice of King Janaka and by breaking the invincible bow of Shiva, He married Sita Devi daughter of Maharaj Janaka.
#$p#After His marriage He accepted exile in the forest for fourteen years by the order of His father Maharaj Dasarath. To help the administration of the demigods He killed fourteen thousands of demons and by the intrigues of the demons His wife Sita Devi was kidnapped by Ravana. He made friendship with Sugriva who was helped by the Lord for killing Vali brother of Sugriva. By the help of Lord Rama, Sugriva became the king of the Vanars (a race of gorillas) He built a floating bridge of stones on the Indian ocean and reached Lanka the kingdom of Ravan who kidnapped Sita. Later on Ravana was killed by Him and Ravan's brother Bibhisana was installed on the throne of Lanka. Vibhisan was one of the brothers of Ravana a demon but Lord Rama made him immortal by His blessings. On the expiry of fourteen years and settling up the affairs at Lanka, He came back to His kingdom Ayodhya by flower plane. He instructed His brother Satrughana to attack Labanasura who reigned at Mathura and the demon was killed. He performed ten Aswamedha sacrifices and later on He disappsared while taking bath in the Sarayu river. The great Ramayana Epic is the history of Lord Rama's activities in the world and the authoritative Ramayana is made by the great poet Valmiki.
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#dl##dd#brāhmaṇā ūcuḥ#/dd#
#dd#pārtha prajāvitā sākṣād#/dd#
#dd#ikṣvākur iva mānavaḥ#/dd#
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#i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=brāhmaṇāḥ&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#brāhmaṇāḥ#/i# — the good brāhmaṇas; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=ūcuḥ&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#ūcuḥ#/i# — said; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=pārtha&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#pārtha#/i# — O son of Pṛthā (Kuntī); #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=prajā&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#prajā#/i# — those who are born; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=avitā&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#avitā#/i# — maintainer; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=sākṣāt&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#sākṣāt#/i# — directly; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=ikṣvākuḥ&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#ikṣvākuḥ #a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=iva&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#iva#/i# — exactly like King Ikṣvāku; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=mānavaḥ&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#mānavaḥ#/i# — son of Manu; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=brahmaṇyaḥ&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#brahmaṇyaḥ#/i# — followers and respectful to the #i#brāhmaṇas#/i#; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=satya&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#satya-#a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=sandhaḥ&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#sandhaḥ#/i# — truthful by promise; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=ca&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#ca#/i# — also; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=rāmaḥ&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#rāmaḥ#/i# — the Personality of Godhead Rāma; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=dāśarathiḥ&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#dāśarathiḥ#/i# — the son of Mahārāja Daśaratha; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=yathā&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#yathā#/i# — like Him.
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The learned brāhmaṇas said: O son of Pṛthā, this child shall be exactly like King Ikṣvāku, son of Manu, in maintaining all those who are born. And as for following the brahminical principles, especially in being true to his promise, he shall be exactly like Rāma, the Personality of Godhead, the son of Mahārāja Daśaratha.
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#i#Prajā#/i# means the living being who has taken his birth in the material world. Actually the living being has no birth and no death, but because of his separation from the service of the Lord and due to his desire to lord it over material nature, he is offered a suitable body to satisfy his material desires. In doing so, one becomes conditioned by the laws of material nature, #i#and the material body is changed in terms of his own work#/i#. The living entity thus transmigrates from one body to another in 8,400,000 species of life. But due to his being the part and parcel of the Lord, he not only is maintained with all necessaries of life by the Lord, but also is protected by the Lord and His representatives, the saintly kings. These saintly kings give protection to all the #i#prajās#/i#, or living beings, to live and to fulfill their terms of imprisonment. Mahārāja Parīkṣit was actually an ideal saintly king because while touring his kingdom he happened to see that a poor cow was about to be killed by the personified Kali, whom he at once took to task as a murderer. This means that even the animals were given protection by the saintly administrators, not from any sentimental point of view, but because those who have taken their birth in the material world have the right to live. All the saintly kings, beginning from the King of the sun globe down to the King of the earth, are so inclined by the influence of the Vedic literatures. The Vedic literatures are taught in higher planets also, as there is reference in the #i#Bhagavad-gītā#/i# (BG 4.1) about the teachings to the sun-god (Vivasvān) by the Lord, and such lessons are transferred by disciplic succession, as it was done by the sun-god to his son Manu, and from Manu to Mahārāja Ikṣvāku. There are fourteen Manus in one day of Brahmā, and the Manu referred to herein is the seventh Manu, who is one of the #i#prajāpatis#/i# (those who create progeny), and he is the son of the sun-god. He is known as the Vaivasvata Manu. He had ten sons, and Mahārāja Ikṣvāku is one of them. Mahārāja Ikṣvāku also learned #i#bhakti-yoga#/i# as taught in the #i#Bhagavad-gītā#/i# from his father, Manu, who got it from his father, the sun-god. Later on the teaching of the #i#Bhagavad-gītā#/i# came down by disciplic succession from Mahārāja Ikṣvāku, but in course of time the chain was broken by unscrupulous persons, and therefore it again had to be taught to Arjuna on the Battlefield of Kurukṣetra. So all the Vedic literatures are current from the very beginning of creation of the material world, and thus the Vedic literatures are known as #i#apauruṣeya#/i# (not made by man). The Vedic knowledge was spoken by the Lord and first heard by Brahmā, the first created living being within the universe.
#$p#Mahārāja Ikṣvāku: One of the sons of Vaivasvata Manu. He had one hundred sons. He prohibited meat eating. His son Śaśāda became the next king after his death.
#$p#Manu: The Manu mentioned in this verse as the father of Ikṣvāku is the seventh Manu, of the name Vaivasvata Manu, the son of sun-god Vivasvān, to whom Lord Kṛṣṇa instructed the teachings of #i#Bhagavad-gītā#/i# prior to His teaching them to Arjuna. Mankind is the descendant of Manu. This Vaivasvata Manu had ten sons, named Ikṣvāku, Nabhaga, Dhṛṣṭa, Śaryāti, Nariṣyanta, Nābhāga, Diṣṭa, Karūṣa, Pṛṣadhra and Vasumān. The Lord's incarnation Matsya (the gigantic fish) was advented during the beginning of Vaivasvata Manu's reign. He learned the principles of #i#Bhagavad-gītā#/i# from his father, Vivasvān, the sun-god, and he reinstructed the same to his son Mahārāja Ikṣvāku. In the beginning of the Tretā-yuga the sun-god instructed devotional service to Manu, and Manu in his turn instructed it to Ikṣvāku for the welfare of the whole human society.
#$p#Lord Rāma: The Supreme Personality of Godhead incarnated Himself as Śrī Rāma, accepting the sonhood of His pure devotee Mahārāja Daśaratha, the King of Ayodhyā. Lord Rāma descended along with His plenary portions, and all of them appeared as His younger brothers. In the month of Caitra on the ninth day of the growing moon in the Tretā-yuga, the Lord appeared, as usual, to establish the principles of religion and to annihilate the disturbing elements. When He was just a young boy, He helped the great sage Viśvāmitra by killing Subahu and striking Mārīca, the she-demon, who was disturbing the sages in their daily discharge of duties. The #i#brāhmaṇas#/i# and #i#kṣatriyas#/i# are meant to cooperate for the welfare of the mass of people. The #i#brāhmaṇa#/i# sages endeavor to enlighten the people by perfect knowledge, and the #i#kṣatriyas#/i# are meant for their protection. Lord Rāmacandra is the ideal king for maintaining and protecting the highest culture of humanity, known as #i#brahmaṇya-dharma#/i#. The Lord is specifically the protector of the cows and the #i#brāhmaṇas#/i#, and hence He enhances the prosperity of the world. He rewarded the administrative demigods by effective weapons to conquer the demons through the agency of Viśvāmitra. He was present in the bow sacrifice of King Janaka, and by breaking the invincible bow of Śiva, He married Sītādevī, daughter of Mahārāja Janaka.
#$p#After His marriage He accepted exile in the forest for fourteen years by the order of His father, Mahārāja Daśaratha. To help the administration of the demigods, He killed fourteen thousand demons, and by the intrigues of the demons, His wife, Sītādevī, was kidnapped by Rāvaṇa. He made friendship with Sugrīva, who was helped by the Lord to kill Vali, brother of Sugrīva. By the help of Lord Rāma, Sugrīva became the king of the Vāṇaras (a race of gorillas). The Lord built a floating bridge of stones on the Indian Ocean and reached Laṅkā, the kingdom of Rāvaṇa, who had kidnapped Sītā. Later on Rāvaṇa was killed by Him, and Rāvaṇa's brother Vibhīṣaṇa was installed on the throne of Laṅkā. Vibhīṣaṇa was one of the brothers of Rāvaṇa, a demon, but Lord Rāma made him immortal by His blessings. On the expiry of fourteen years, after settling the affairs at Laṅkā, the Lord came back to His kingdom, Ayodhyā, by flower plane. He instructed His brother Śatrughna to attack Lavṇāsura, who reigned at Mathurā, and the demon was killed. He performed ten #i#aśvamedha#/i# sacrifices, and later on He disappeared while taking a bath in the Śarayu River. The great epic #i#Rāmāyaṇa#/i# is the history of Lord Rāma's activities in the world, and the authoritative #i#Rāmāyaṇa#/i# was written by the great poet Vālmīki.
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