Sri Rama visiting Matanga Ashrama and meeting Shabari

Pampa Sarovar: Sri Rama visiting Matanga Ashrama near Pampa Sarovar and meeting Shabari:

(Valmiki Ramayana - Aranya Kanda - 74)

Sri Rama meeting Sabari

► शबरीदत्तफलाशन राम् (Shabari-Datta-Phala-Ashana Raam): Who ate the fruit given by Shabari as an offering of devotion.

• Meditation: I meditate on Sri Rama visiting the Matanga Ashrama near the Pampa Sarovar and meeting Shabari.

• Sri Rama visiting the Matanga Ashrama and meeting Shabari: Sri Rama visited the Matanga Ashrama near Pampa Sarovar and met Shabari, a lady of great asceticism. Shabari, who was waiting for Sri Rama, worshipped him and showed him the places in the ashrama sanctified by her spiritual masters (who had left their bodies and ascended to the divine realm, predicting that Sri Rama will come there). Upon arrival of Sri Rama her ascesis became accomplished and she also ascended to the divine realm casting her body in the presence of Sri Rama.

► Kishkindha outskirts - Shabari Kolla
(Belagavi district, Karnataka)
(200 km from Hampi)

Shabari Kolla is identified with the place where Sri Rama met Shabari. It is located in Sureban in the Belagavi district of Karnataka. The place is around 200 km from Hampi. Anegundi and adjoining Hampi regions are identified with the puranic Kishkindha.

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