Originally posted by arti07
thanks for shraing the valuable information... never knew all these things i have read about this dhanush in some text it is said that the king janak found the dhanush alongwith with sita ji in the furrow some say parsuram gifted it to king janak...which one is correct ????
The text that says Parashuram gifted the dhanush to Janaka is correct. Lord Parashuram got it from Lord Shiva and he gave it to Janaka to safeguard it. That's why Parashuram was so angry when Lord Ram broke the dhanush in Sita's swayamvar. He thought Lord Shiva was being insulted, but when he recognized Lord Ram as Vishnu, his anger abated and he left after giving him the Vishnu dhanush.
If anyone wants to see it onscreen, this story of child Sita lifitng the Shiva Dhanush is shown in Imagine's Ramayan. I think it's episode 8 or 9...not sure exactly. The history of Shiva dhanush is also shown in some episode, but I don't remember which one.
Edited by JanakiRaghunath - 11 years ago