Śarabhanga

Family: Hermits · Role: sage · First appears: Book III, Canto 5 · Sarabhanga

In Book III, Canto 5, Śarabhanga told Ráma that Indra had come to take him to Brahmá’s sphere, but that he had waited to see his honoured guest. He advised Ráma to visit Sutíkshṇa, whose woodland home was near and who would help him.

Śarabhanga made offerings, entered the fire and cast off his body; he then rose from the pyre in radiant youth and reached Brahmá’s sphere, where Brahmá welcomed him. In Book III, Canto 7, Sutíkshṇa named Śarabhanga as the one who had told him that he was the son of Gautama.

Relationship record

Book III, Canto 5 · Sarabhanga

• with Indra (Indra offers to convey Śarabhanga to Brahmá’s sphere.) “This Lord of boons has sought me here To waft me hence to Brahmá’s sphere,”
• protégé: Ráma “With seeing thee, mine honoured guest.”
• with Brahmá (interaction) “And Brahmá joying at the sight Welcomed the glorious anchorite.”
• patron: Indra “This Lord of boons has sought me here To waft me hence to Brahmá’s sphere,”
• pupil: Ráma “Sutíkshṇa’s woodland home is near, A glorious saint of life austere, True to the path of duty; he With highest bliss will prosper thee.”

Book III, Canto 7 · Sutíkshna

• parent: Gautama “For I by Śarabhanga old, The son of Gautama, was told”

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Extracted from the original text of The Rámáyan of Válmíki. Made with Rho MD.