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     SrImate SrI ra'nga rAmAnuja mahA deSikAya namaH.

   SrI vishNu sahasra nAmam - Slokam 106 - nAma 987.  vaikhAnah.

987. vaikhAnaH ? He Who uproots (the evils of the world).

om vaikhAnAya namaH.

The root from which the nAma is derived is khana ? avadhAraNe ? to 
dig.  vi- is an upasarga, and the sense in which it is used here is 
to denote intensity (viSesheNa).   The sense in which He `digs' is 
interpreted differently by different interpreters.

Sri BhaTTar uses the root khana with the meaning `uproot', and 
explains the nAma as One Who uproots the miseries of His devotees ? 
janitvA, bhava duHkha vikhananAt vaikhAnaH ? Having taken His birth 
or incarnation out of His own will, then BhagavAn proceeds to uproot 
the sorrows of the world, in particular the sorrow of repeated birth 
and death.  

SrI baladeva vidyA bhUshaN follows a similar interpretation ? 
janitvAca sva-bhakta duHkha vikhananAt vaikhAnaH ? Taking birth 
voluntarily, He destroys the sorrows of His devotees.  

SrImad SrImushNam ANDavaan refers us to the first pASuram of 
nammAzhvAr's tiruviruttam, where AzhvAr points out that bhagavAn 
takes His births for the purpose of removing our bondage to this 
samsAra:

        poi ninRa j~nAnamum pollA ozhukkum, azhukku uDambum
        in ninRa nIrmai ini yAm uRavAmai uyir aLippAn
        en-ninRa yOniyumAip piRandAi! imaiyOr talaivA
        mei-ninRu kETTu aruLAi, aDiyEn Seyyum viNNappamE.

"O Lord of the deva-s! You take Your births amongst us out of Your 
own free will in order to protect us, who live with false and 
incomplete knowledge, bad conduct, and an impure body and mind, and 
are stuck deep in the ocean of samsAra.  You alone can redeem us from 
this deep misery.  Please bless us and heed my plea and save us".  

Sri Sa'nkara uses the meaning `dig' for the root khana, and uses the 
instance of bhagavAn's varAha incarnation to illustrate the 
significance of the nAma ? dharaNIm viSeshena khanitvA pAtAla vAsinam 
hiraNyAksham vArAha rUpam AsthAya jaghAna iti purANe prasiddham ? It 
is well-known in the purANa-s that He, in the form of a boar, dug up 
the earth, and killed hiraNyAksha, an asura who lived in the 
netherworld. 

Sri cinmayAnanda gives an interesting interpretation for the above 
purANic incident ? hiranya is gold, and aksha is eye, and the 
term `hiraNyAksha' symbolizes our eye towards materialistic 
pleasures.  BhagavAn has to dig and reach inside our ego to rid us of 
this desire for materialistic pleasures, and in this sense He is 
vaikhAnaH.

*One of the interpretations given by SrI satyadevo vAsishTha uses the 
meaning `disturbance' for the term `khana'.  Using the 
meaning `devoid of' for the upasarga vi-, he interprets the term 
vikhAna as a reference to the mukta-s who are completely liberated, 
and then explains the term vaikhAna as the Lord of vikhAna-s or the 
mukta-s ? vikhAnAH khanana rahitAH muktAH, tatsambandhI vaikhAnaH.  

SrI raghunAtha tIrtha takes the word `khana' as meaning `to dig ? to 
completely undo', and interprets the nAma as ? viSesheNa Satrum 
avadArayati iti vikhAnaH, vikhAna eva vaikhAnaH ? He who cuts into 
pieces and destroys the enemy.

Using the meaning `dig' for the root khana, SrI vAsishTha gives 
another interpretation, and attributes the existence of oceans etc., 
as the work of the Lord ? He has specially provided for these as 
examples of His specially digging out these resources of water in 
nature, which no one else can do ? tasya ca viSishThaH khAno 
samudrasya  _ nahIdRk khananam kenacit tad-anyena kartum Sakyam | 

-dAsan kRshNamAcAryan

(To be continued)





 
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