Kakbhushundi: the crow who has watched Rama's childhood in every age

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A crow who has seen the Ramayana happen in every cycle, over and over.

Kakbhushundi, a former Shiva devotee cursed through a thousand lives and finally made a crow, tells Garuda that in every Treta Yuga he lives five years in Ayodhya watching child Rama. Doubting Rama's divinity once, he flew to Brahmaloka but found Rama's fingers always near, then saw countless universes inside Rama's mouth. He lived centuries in them and returned to the same moment. He asked for salvation but chose to stay a crow. The same sage appears as Bhusunda in the Yoga Vasishtha.

Who: Kakbhushundi, Garuda, Rama, Lomasha, Vasishtha

Bound to

Ramcharitmanas: three conversations nested inside each other located-at

Hanuman's ring and the plate of identical rings mirror

Places: Ayodhya, Mount Meru (mythic)

Where this comes from

devotional · Wikipedia: Kakabhushundi Ramcharitmanas; Yoga Vasishtha

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