VAISALI ANDMALINI Dearfriends,
Yesterdaynight in the program Badai Banglavu, the guest was Smt.Geetha acted in the Malayalamfilm Vaisali. Vaisali was a very successful film, and often shown in TV also. Smt.Geetha acted in thefilm as Malini. Onseeing the program a doubt came in my mind in which epic the story was told andwho narrated the story. I searched my old postings and found a posting on thetopic with answer to my doubt. I thought sharing the story and answer. Thisre-posting is an edited version of the same. Hope an enjoyable reading aboutMalini and Vaisali. Sincerely, GopalaKrishnan 31-10-21 1. Introduction I sawlong back the Malayalam film VAISALI when I visited home for a function alongwith my relations in the local theatre in 1988 end. I surfed the net regardingVAISALI for recollection. Shewas the daughter of a maid MALINI BY KING LOMAPADA of Angarajyam. Shewas instrumental in luring and bringing Sage RISHYASRINGA son of sageVIBHANDAKA to Angarajyam, to bring rain (after a draught of 12 years) by conductinga yagya by him. Ingratitude, king Lomapada married his adopted daughter SANTHA, born to kingDASARATHA AND KOUSALAYA to Sage Rishyasringa. I thought the little VAISALI ANDMALINI is apt one. 2. Dasaratha begets a daughter. Thisincident should be at least about 15 years back to the Puthra Kama Ishti yagaby king Dasaratha, performed by sage Rishyasringa. At that time king DASARATHAhad only one queen KOUSALYA. Kousalya gave birth to a female child. The childhad slight disability in leg. Dasaratha was unhappy. 3. Dasaratha gives his daughter to kingLomapada in adoption Kulagurusage VASISTHA advised if the child was given in adoption to a king, her disabilitywould disappear. At that time king Lomapada of Angaraiyaam was desiring toadopt a child. His capital was Chambapuri (Angarajyam). Inobedience to kulaguru Vasistha, Dasaratha gave his daughter in adoption to hisfriend KING LOMAPADA. Whata wonder! Her disability of leg disappeared. She was named SANTHA. 3a. Dasaratha marry two more princes Yearspassed. Kousalya did not deliver any more children. So Dasaratha married twomore princes in due course- KAIKEYI AND SUMITHRA. They became the 2nd and 3rdqueens. My note- Now we can understand that Kaikeyiwas very young. 4. Draught in Angarajyam Aboutthis time draught appeared in Angarajyam due to the curse of a Brahmin on theking, as he did not listen to him onsome issue. No rain at all. It continued for 12 years. How to bring the rain was the problem of kingLomapada. HisRajaguru was away with his son, since his son started loving VAISALI, daughterof Malini, which the king did not approve. SomehowLomapada pleaded and got him to Chambapuri to conduct a yagya and please INDRAAND GET RAIN. It was the period Indra was the lord of rain. 4a. Malini and Vaisali with groupsproceed to deep forest Rajagurugot a mystic vision on the night he arrived in Chambapuri. He should get sage RISHYASRINGA (having two horns in the head) from forests and yagya has to beperformed by him only. Rishyasringa was son of sage VIBHANDAKA. He was bringingup his son with least knowledge of women in deep forest. Rajaguru,specifically desired Vaisali for the mission. Vaisali proceeded with her motherMalini and group of people to forest through river. Vaisali and Malini aloneproceed deep forest. 5. Rishyasringa gets lured by Vaisali Forthe teenager, not to have the smell of women, Vaisali was a wonder. He gotlured by her. Vibhandaka smelled the danger after a day. But he could not change his sonmuch. Atone moment, Rishayasringa felt he was getting attracted by a MAYAVI, and wantedto restart his penance, he was about to curse Vaisali, and Malini appeared inthe scene. Malini appraised the mission and begged notto curse her daughter. Knowing he hasthe power to bring rain, Rishyasringa proceeded with them to Champapurihappily. Atchampapuri, as the people proceeded receiving Rishyasringa, poor Malini was left behind.No body to care. No sentences are sufficient to describe the scene- everybodypushing her back. Really the scenes of the film came before me on seeing actressGeetha as guest. 6. Rain, rain, rain AsRishyasringa started performing yagya atChampapuri, clouds appeared, and when he completed it was RAIN, RAIN RAIN. Everybodyenjoying the huge rainfall and water after 12 years. 7. Reward to Rishyasringa. Kulaguruappraised king Lomapada to give a suitable reward to the sage, marrying his adopteddaughter SANTHA TO RISHYASRINGA. EvenLOMAPADA WOULD HAVE HAPPILY MARRIED VAISALI TO THE SAGE, but for the compulsionof Kulaguru, Santha adopted daughter was married so that the offspring will rule the kingdom as his successor. Kulaguruwas specific Vaisali should not get married to the sage.. It was late Netumuti Venu acted as Kula guru. 8. Vaisali rushes to Malini Vaisalitoo got neglected now . She realized the situation. She rushed to her mother struggling inrainwater. In the happiness, nobody cared Malini and Vaisali. Forthe people after getting the rain they were nothing to care…. 9. King Yudhisishtira listens to sageVedavyasa. Theabove legend about Santha, Dasaratha, Lomapada, and Rishyasringa, and of course MALINI AND VAISALI was told by sage Vedavyasa to KING YUDHISTHIRA. Vedavyasawas grandfather of Pandavas. The incident might have been after the Great War. Endnote- After Reading from Wikipedia about film Vaisali, the legend is very muchsummarized and told here. For the film the story is retold by the greatMalayalam writer – M T Vasudevan nair. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. 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