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जंबुक (jaMbuka)

 
L R Vaidya
English
jaMbuka {% m. (fem. ˚की) %} 1. A jackal
2. a low man.
पुराणम्
English
जम्बुक / JAMBUKA. (JAMBUMĀLIKA). A śūdra Sage. The child of a brahmin died when śrī rāma, after his twelve years’ exile in forest had returned to ayodhyā and was ruling the country in an ideal manner. The brahmin and his wife carried the dead body of their child to the palace with loud lamentations. Everybody felt surprised how there could be child-death in the land when the King was ruling it in the most dhārmic (righteous) manner. Then did nārada, who was present in the assembly, point out that in a corner of Rāmarājya a śūdra Sage was doing tapas and that it was the reason for the untimely death of the brahmin child. At once śrī rāma set out in search of the śūdra Sage after directing śatrughna to see that no enemy entered the country, and asking lakṣmaṇa to take care of the dead body of the brahmin child. After a rather detailed search śrī rāma found jambuka at the mountain called Śailam doing tapas hanging from the branch of a tree on his legs with head down. He told śrī rāma that he was the śūdra Sage called jambuka and was performing tapas thus so that he might ascend to heaven in his very body. śrī rāma at once cut off the head of the śūdra Sage, who attained, as soon as Rāma's sword fell on him, mokṣa (salvation), and the dead child of the brahmin returned to life again. (uttara rāmāyaṇa).