Dear VR ji,
I was reading the Ajamila episode yesterday and I was thinking that all credit went to Ajamila for calling out for his son Narayana when Yama Dutas came to take him..even though he did not mean to call Narayana as in Lord Vishnu..still he got saved by Vishnu Dutas cos Ajamila uttered the word Narayana Narayana.
Ok in this story..Ajamila wife was a sex worker and Ajamila fell in love with her..married her and had a few children with her.
In this whole story she is painted as a bad person who deluded Ajamila to lead a life of Adharma of the lust kind...but you see she gave birth to her youngest son whom they named Narayana and that son finally was the one whose named the father called when Yama Dutas came...so technically it was becos of the name and presence of this son that gave an opportunity to Ajamila to utter the word Narayana and Lord Vishnu was happy and sent his Dutas to save Ajamila from the Yama troop.
So that means this son was instrumental in saving him from hell.
That means Ajamila was lucky to have had a son like this...and now the even bigger question???
Why wasn't any credit given to Ajamila's wife??
A 100% evil and bad woman would have never had the bhagyam to deliver a son that could save his father from hell.
So I think it is high time we all give her some respect too..even though she was sex worker before marriage but she had the bhagyam of giving birth to a worthy son that become instrumental in saving Ajamila from hell.
I am quite sure some of our Puranas were gender biased and saw good even in fallen males but never in a fallen woman.