SrI:
Dear KrishNa BhakthAs
:
On this day after
KrishNa Jayanthi day , when we celebrated the arrival
of
Kutti KaNNan , adiyEn
seeks the
blessings of Swamy Desikan to share
with
you all
the greatness of
the divine kaavyam of
"Yaadhavaabhyudhayam" .
This is Srimath VedAntha
Desika Virachitha MahA Kaavyam .
It has been commented upon by
Sri Appayya Dikshithar .
The DippiNi for this MahA
Kaavyam has been provided by
Abhinava Desika Sri UtthamUr
VeerarAghavAcchAr Swamy .
The Nrusimha PriyA Trust has
released this Sri Sookthi with
the above content in 1998 .
Sri YaadhavAbhyudhayam is one
of the five mahA Kaavyams
bequeathed to us by Swamy
Desikan . The Five Kaavyams
of Swamy
Desikan are :
(1) Sri YaadhAbhudhya :
This covers selected incidents from
th avathAram of BhagavAn
Sriman NaarAyaNanan as Lord KrishNa .
It starts with salutation to
the Sri Jayanthi Sambhavan ( First slOkam of
SrI Gopala Vimsathy
):
VandhE BrundhAvanacharam
vallavee janavallabham
Jayanthee sambhavam dhAma
Vaijayanthee vibhUshaNam
(Meaning): I salute that
Divine effulgence named Gopala , who was born on
the Sri Jayanthi day
( day when RohiNi nakshathram is united with Ashtami
tithi ) and roamed in the
forests of BrundhAvanam wearing the unfading
garland made of wild flowers
of the forest known as Vyjayanthi Maalai .
This garland was His
charactrestric decoration . He enchanted the Gopis
of BrundhAvanam . I salute
this illustrious JyOthi
( http://www.sadagopan.org/acharyans/sd11.htm
for the slOkams of
Sri Gopala Vimsathy of Swamy
Desikan )
At the end of the 24 sargams
containing 2,640 slOkams , Swamy Desikan
instructs us on the reasons
behind his
composition of the Kaavyam of
YaadhavAbhudhaya ( The Last
slOkam of YaadhAvAbhudhayam) :
Gurubhiranaga-chitthairAhithOdhArabhUmA
surabhitha-rasamEthath soonrutham
VenkatEsa:
vyatanutha Yadhuveera preethim-icchan
prabhUthAm
KavikaTaka mrugEndhra: kshEmadham
Kaavyarathnam
(meaning): This gem
among Kaavyams has been composed by
the lion among
poets and logicians , Sri VenkatEsa Kavi solely
for the pleasure
of the Yadhu Veeran ( the hero of the Yadhu vamsam ,
Sri KaNNapirAn .
This poet , VenkatEsa Kavi has been empowered by
the superior
blessings of AchAryAs of blemishless
minds , who are totally
devoid from ajn~Anam
. This Kaavya rathnam dealing with the charithram of
Yadhu Veeran
will bless every reader with Yoga
KshEmam since it is
an abode of true
meanings of the eternal Tatthvams
.
There are 2,640
poems in beautiful as well as rare (Vichithra) metres and
some of the
slOkams are set up in the form of Chithra Bhandhams ( Turanga
,
ShOdasa Padhma DhaLam ,
SarvathOmukha , ardhabramaka and Muraja
Bhandhams) .
Among the 24 Sargams
, the First one starts with 100 slOkams and the last
one
concludes with 95 slOkams .
Right at the middle ( 12th and the 13th sargam is
Sri RukmiNi KalyANam with 202
slOkams) .
Let us look at the content of
the individual Sargams now to get an idea of
the genius of Swamy Desikan
in organizing content (100 slOkams) divided across
8 sub-themes
:
a. Kaavya
Arambham / Introduction (SlOkams 1-8 ) starting
with
the First SlOkam of Sri
Gopala Vimsathy as Naandhi /Mangala SlOkam
b.
Descriptions of Yadhu Vamsa Kings (SlOkams: 9-36)
c. Bhumi
Devi's complaint to DevAs about the burden of
carrying
the earth , when Kamsa's injustices were increasing
(SlOkams 37-41).
d. DevA's
arrival at the MIlky Ocean and their eulogy of Ksheera Saagara
NaaTan (SlOkams 42-64 ).
e. Sriman
NaarAyaNan's Granting of Darsanam to the DevAs and
their anubhavam of the
Lord's Soundharyam (Slokams
65-75).
f. DevA's and Bhumi DEvi's prayer to their Lord to intervene
to remove Kamsan's injustices ( SlOkmas
76-02)
g.
BhagavAn's assuring response and promise to take
avathAram
as the son of Devaki and VasudEvar of Yadhu Kulam
(SlOkams 93-99).
h.
BhagavAn's entry in to the garbham of DEvaki at Mathurai (SlOkam 100)
.
adiyEn
will highlight individual slOkams from the First Sargam and
continue
with the
other Sargams . When we reach the 12th Sarga m , adiyEn will
cover
fully the
Mangala Charithram of Sri RukmiNi KalyANam .
May Sri
RukmiNI Kaanthan at ThiruvallikkENi grant His blessings
in
this
Likhitha Kaimkaryam !
Sri
KrishNa ParabrahmaNE Nama:
Daasan ,
Oppiliappan Koil V.Sadagopan
P.S : The rest of the Four MahA
Kaavyams of Swamy Desikan in addition to
YaadhavAbhudhayam
are listed for completeness here
:
(2) Sri RanganathA PaadhukA
Sahasram ( http://paadhukasahasram.sadagopan.org)
(3) Sankalpa SooryOdhayam (http://Sadagopan.org/acharyans/ssmain.htm) (4) Hamsa
SandhEsam ( http://www.ibiblio.org/Sripedia/ebooks/Vdesikan/hamsa_sandesa)
(5) SubhAshitha Neevi
.
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