Rama’s awareness about weapons 1.21.10

Parayanam means the final destination. Because, penance is an instrument used to know reality, there is the Vedic passage which reads, the brahmanas wish to know him through sacrifices, gifts and penance which never harms. The statement Rama knows various weapons suggests all the divine weapons of the Lord came along with him at the time of his incarnation on earth. The poet says ‘arrows of various types and the bow with a long body will follow Rama taking the shape of humans’. No one knows him is the Vedic statement. The gods do not know him even while he is with them. When it is said ‘they will not know him’, it is understood that they do not know him. Or, even when the real greatness of Rama is described, Dasaratha did not become confident because his feeling that Rama was his son clouded his intellect. Intending to remove king Dasaratha’s fear and also to bring good to Rama, he is now elaborating on Viswamitra’s efficiency in protecting Rama. The word Devadayah should be construed with the verb na vetsyanti. It means ‘even the gods do not know’.