Why the Crows are referred our ancestors? What about other birds?

[Raghuraj Vadakke Kuruppath]

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Why the Crows are referred our ancestors? What about other birds

• Lets us start with Navagraha, you might have observed that the priest in the temple does offering to Lord Shani and the vahanam on which rides around the earth is through crow.
  
  Lord Shani is the other name of Yaman who accepts all the rituals done by us to our forefathers in other words pithur-dharpanam.As Yaman is the executer of death to human's and he keeps an account.
  
  There is a reason and story for this, till the period of Ramayana or Thretha yuga everyone could offer their offering's or rituals to forefathers directly on the day of their death every year and they (forefathers) would come and collect them too , this a a method of getting all the blessings from them directly , it is also said that till then the human beings were able to know the correct and wrong doings of last 1 years through their forefathers and correct their mistakes if any committed.
  
  What happened in Ramayana is that Bharathan done the last rituals to King Dasharatha as Rama was in exile which as per Hindu system to be done by the eldest son.It is also said that the exact star on which King Dhasharatha died was properly known by Bharathan and on return from exile Rama learned it and performed the ritual on the exact day On completion of rituals Lord Rama awaited to see his father whom he haven't saw on his death bed or the body. He awaited for hours long but his father haven't appeared before the rituals, assuming that his father is totally dissatisfied of him he was about to return to palace to ask to saints and his guru's, the reason for his father not to appear before him, as he started walking he heard a voice to stop and it was King Dhasaratha before him, Lord Rama enquired him, does he done any wrong to his father and all those stories of the reason of not able to do these rituals properly and correctly and timely , hearing this King Dasharathan said that nothing wrong is committed whereas he was happy with the rituals, then the next question came from lord Rama was why King haven't appeared as the rituals was completed , he conveyed that whereas Bharathan who was also performing the same rituals along these years was also performing it in the other side of the river he had to visit him first and was discussing with him so the time went off.
  Hearing this Rama got angry and spelled that no father or forefathers should appear before the children on the rituals or offerings thereafter, he regretted for the spell he pronounced and discussed with his father, what could be done, he called Yaman/Shani and asked for the solution and it was said by Shani that as Lord himself has spelled it can't he revoked so forefathers would not be able to come thereafter directly to collect the offerings and rituals anymore and Shani could come on their behalf as suggested by King Dasharatha, it was expressed by Shani/Yaman a difficulty to be present and collect the offering by the children to their forefather hence nominated its Vahanam - Crow to be present.
  
  Hence the Hindu's offer to crow and wait for them to take these offering to their fore fathers.

[rajani unni]

Hi Raghu,

This is the first time I have come to know why crows are referred to as our ancestors. Thanks Raghu once again!

Love
Rajanichechi

[Raghuraj Vadakke Kuruppath]

You are right, Rajinichechy. Even I never knew this!

[Arunima Menon]

Very interesting. Thanks for sharing Raghuchetta.

Arunima

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[Mukundan vk]

Thanks raghu, interesting information
Hema chechy

 

Hema & Mukundan

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[Roshni Mohan]

Thanks Raghu for the informaion. I have often wondered abt this and am so happy I got a reasoning for the syndrome. Roshni chechi

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