Pranam
*KAKA crow* Kaka or crow is the oldest species which the west
rarely knows as visibility of this bird is not that frequent as we see
everywhere in India. It is in Rig vedam as a species but the letters or the
sound KA first consonant of the Sanskrit virtually describes the Brahman,
Brahma, and the Brahmin. KA is a sound questioning “who am I”. One who
knows the KA and its answer becomes a Brahman. Hence, we attribute the crow
to ancestors. Ramayana has the crow who disturbed the wife of Rama and got
the one ye punctured and even today we jibe as Kaka vision. Kagabujandar is
a great siddha who has solved many mysteries about which we shall talk
sometimes later. Kakasuran, Kakapushandi etc are famous names in the Vedic
scriptures.
KA means WHY? The crow is questioning why I am born like this. And
there is more relation with the behaviours of human and Crow more than
Darwin can know.
Ka has several meanings. 1) Ka (क) (i) Prajāpati. (Śloka 32, Chapter
1, Ādi Parva, Mahābhārata); (ii) A name of Dakṣaprajāpati. (Śloka 7,
Chapter 208, Śānti Parva, Mahābhārata). (iii) A name of Viṣṇu. (Śloka 91,
Chapter 149, Anuśāsana Parva, Mahābhārata) (iv) Brahmā (Viṣṇu, Maheśvara).
(Chapter 348, Agni Purāṇa, Mahābhārata). 2) Ka (क).—Kanada @ Pippaladha A
famous sage of ancient India. He was the founder of the Vaiśeṣika system.
The word means one who eats Kaṇa (atom). His foes gave him this name to
ridicule him. He is also called Kaṇabhakṣaka. Kaṇāda is known as Pippalāda
also. (He got that name because he used to eat Pippalī (long pepper) in
large quantities. Ka (क).—The Lord of Creatures: The Great Puruṣa. A name
of Brahmā.
So crow is not from the west view but from us a lot to learn. KR IRS
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On Tue, 23 Feb 2021 at 18:26, 'gopala krishnan' via Thatha_Patty <
[email protected]> wrote:
> *THE CROW PART 5*
>
> Dear friends,
>
> I am really happy over the large number of responses I have received about
> my posting about crow. I have posted already part 1-4 about crow. *This
> is part 5 and FINAL PART about crow.*
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Gopala krishnan 14-3-2011.
>
> *REPOSTED ON 23-2-2021 after editing and updating.* *R. Gopala Krishnan*
>
> 30 Darwin’s theory- Crow among birds with developed intelligence
>
> During the 19th century there arose the belief that *crows were the 'most
> advanced' birds*, based upon the belief that Darwinian evolution brings
> 'progress'. In such a classification the 'most intelligent' of birds were
> listed last reflecting their position 'atop the pyramid'. Modern biologists
> some how reject the concept of hierarchical 'progress' in evolution.
> 31Crow-Relationship with humans
>
> Several different corvids, particularly ravens
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raven>, have occasionally served as pets
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pets>, although they are not able to speak
> as readily as parrots <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parrot> and do not
> like being caged
>
> 32- 120 Species in raven family
>
> Corvidae is a cosmopolitan family of oscine passerine birds that contains
> the crows, ravens, rooks, jackdaws, jays, magpies, treepies, choughs and
> nutcrackers.
>
> T*he common English names used are corvids or the crow family*, and there
> are over 120 species. The genus Corvus, including the jackdaws, crows and
> ravens, makes up over a third of the entire family.
>
> 33. Kakkasseri nampoothiri
>
> He was a person who could understand what the crows talk and communicate
> with them.
>
> Crows make a wide variety of calls or vocalizations. Whether the crows'
> system of communication constitutes a language is a topic of debate and
> study. *Crows have also been observed to respond to calls of other
> species; this behaviour is presumably learned because it varies regionally*
> .
>
> Crows' vocalizations are complex and poorly understood. Some of the many
> vocalizations that crows make are a "Koww", usually echoed back and forth
> between birds, a series of "Kowws" in discrete units, counting out numbers,
> a long caw followed by a series of short caws usually made when a bird
> takes off from a perch.
>
> *Crows can hear sound frequencies lower than those that humans can hear,
> which complicate the study of their vocalizations.*
>
> *Loud, throaty "caw-aw-ah"'s are usually used to indicate hunger or to
> mark territory*. When defending a nest site or food, crows will usually
> enlarge their crest feathers and hunch their shoulders to increase their
> size. *Softer, gurgling sounds have also been observed as a sort of
> beckoning call, or a call of affection.* These noises are emitted from
> within the throat of the bird, much like a cat's purring.
>
> 34. Human identification
>
> Recent research suggests that crows have the ability to recognize one
> individual human from another by facial features. (Totally a new
> information read from wikipedia)
>
> 35. Crows in culture and mythology
>
> Crows, and especially ravens, often feature in European legends or
> mythology *as portents or harbingers of doom or death, because of their
> dark plumage, unnerving calls, and tendency to eat carrion (including those
> of huma*ns). They are commonly thought to circle above scenes of death
> such as battles.
>
> In occult circles, distinctions are sometimes made between crows and
> ravens. In mythology and folklore as a whole, crows tend to be symbolic
> more of the spiritual aspect of death, or the transition of the spirit into
> the afterlife, whereas ravens tend more often to be associated with the
> negative (physical) aspect of death.
>
> Another reason for this distinction is that while crows are typically
> highly social birds, ravens don't seem to congregate in large numbers
> anywhere but:
>
> Near carrion where they meet seemingly by chance, or At cemeteries,
> where large numbers sometimes live together, even though carrion there is
> no more available (and probably less attainable) than any road or field.
>
>
> 35a The white crow become black- story
>
> In classical Greek mythology, when the crow told the god Apollo that his
> lover Coronis was cheating on him with a mortal, he became very angry, and
> part of that anger was directed at the crow, WHOSE FEATHERS HE TURNED
> FROM WHITE TO BLACK.
>
> 35bBalikakka
>
> In Hinduism, it is believed that people who died will take food and
> offerings through a variety of crows called "Bali kakka". Every year
> people whose parents or relatives died would offer food to crows as well
> as cows on the sraaddha day.
>
> My note- Among Brahmins it is a must practice to offer food to crow before
> they take meals in the afternoon everyday.
>
> 35c Battle between owls and crows
>
> A battle between crows and owls is said to have inspired the final bloody
> night of the Mahabharatha war.
>
> 35d In Buddhisam
>
> In Buddhism, the Dharmapala (protector of the Dharma) Mahakala is
> represented by a crow in one of his physical/ earthly forms.
>
> 36 Dalailama and crow
>
> Avalokiteśvara, who is reincarnated on Earth as the Dalai Lama, is often
> closely associated with the crow because it is said that when the first
> Dalai Lama was born, robbers attacked the family home. The parents fled and
> were unable to get to the infant Lama in time. When they returned the next
> morning expecting the worst, they found their home untouched, and a pair of
> crows was caring for the Dalai Lama. It is believed that crows heralded
> the birth of the First, Seventh, Eighth, Twelfth and Fourteenth Lamas,
> the latter being the current Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso.
>
> 37 Chinese mythology
>
> In Chinese mythology, the world originally had ten suns embodied as ten
> crows, which rose in the sky one at a time. When all ten decided to rise
> at once, the effect was devastating to crops, so the gods sent their
> greatest archer Houyi, who shot down nine crows spared only one. Having a
> "crow beak" is a symbolic expression that one is being a jinx.
>
>
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