Sri Ramakrishna garu said: " The difficulty in the samasya, and the way it is resolved, remind me of the > way mEDasAni mOhan tackled the samasya > > rAmArAvu naSincu kAlamika samprAptince, nikkammu gAn > > I don't remember the completed poem. " > I have neither seen nor heard of Sri Mohan's completion. But I see at least two ways of handling this samasya. Here's a pUraNa based on the more obvious of the two: jaTAyuvu from rAmAyaNa is saying - A mAyAvi pulasthyasUnuDu mahOdyadBAnutEjuMDu saM stOmADaMbaruDai jagannutaniTE tODtEra pOrADitin SrAmaMbayye yamAnuyAyulu yikan rAnunna nIvEmo vO rAmA! rAvu; naSiMcu kAlamika saMpraptiMce nikkammugan I make no claims about the "poetic qualities" of this poem. In fact, all I did was to start with the brreak into rAmA, rAvu in the samasya and pretty much fill the third line backwards. First two lines are then added to set the context with mostly useless samAsAlu to fill up the space given by the chaMdassu. The second way to break is more complex - rA, mArAvu. For this, we can develop a scenario where there are two cows (Avulu), one of them somehow to be referred to as mArAvu (mAru + Avu). The third line will end with pO. In all, someone says that there was an accident of some kind and the mArAvu is hurt, and is rushing someone else to go because that cow is about to die. Sure, contrived; but better than making it into a praise of rAmArAvu by talking about some bad things in the first couple of lines and ending the 3rd by setting up something like "now that rAmArAvu is here, those bad things will be destroyed" (sinAre gAri mArgaM). Sri Krishamurthi garu has completed the other samasya beautifully. I wonder if it could be broken a little differently, to bring in the story of of ahalya. The difficulty is with the word sIta. I don't have access to any dictionaries right now but if we could make the word "dussIta" (I don't know if this is a meaningful construct) and if it means a person with bad behavior, then we'll be home by breaking the samasya into sItA , rA, muniki. K.V.S. Ramarao