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Chapter 2.

        Devaki appeared divine because she carried the 
krishnarasayana, the elixir which is sidhdha and sidhdhanishevitha, 
resorted to by the sages being sure of effect.
        Devaki  ate the mud, symbolic of the earth, during her 
pregnancy as if she is showing buy her action, naatitham, that the 
one who has devoured the whole earth is inside her,  ` bhukthaa puraa 
yene vasundharaa  saa sa visvabhoktha mamagarbhabhoothah, ` says 
Desika.  She dreamt that she was lying on Adhisesha and traveled on 
Garuda. Utthamur swami explains this as ` devakigarbhagantham 
bhagavanthamprthak paricharithum anishtvaa seshaadhayah 
devakeesthathvaveshenaiva paricharantheeva.' It looked as though 
Adhisesha and others carried devaki along with the Lord in order to 
do service to Him.She walked slowly as if not to burden the earth 
with the weight of Him who is visvaguru, the mighty Lord who has all 
the universe in Him. He is vidvaguru or jagatguru as He was going to 
impart the Gita to the world and also the greater than the greatest, 
mahatho mahiyaan. The word `guru ` contains a pun to mean preceptor 
as well as big.

        Then starts the description of the night of Krishnavathaara. 
The appearance of the dusk, sandhya, seemed to denote the advent of 
the Lord. Sandhy, personified as a damsel,a is compared to the form 
of the Lord, murdhvishah murthih dhvitheeyaa, on account of the 
attire of golden hue, suvarnapithaambharavaasinee, and hiding  the 
Sun with the brilliance of  own light, svadhaamasamchaadhtha 
suryamurthih. The Sun  sinking in the ocean seemed to seek some 
support avalambhana, by his rays stretched out. He looked like a 
lotus plucked from the pond of the sky by sandhya  and the crest 
jewel of a serpent plunging into the ocean afraid of Garuda in the 
form of sandhya.  The richness of poetic imagination of Desika  is  
illustrated by these words.

        At the setting of the Sun, the ay being ashtami 8th day of 
krishnapaksha, dark fortnight, no moon appeared and darkness spread 
everywhere. Stars looked like a garland of pearls to adorn the Lord 
on His avathaara prepared by His servant, the Kala, Time. Later when 
the moon rose the eastern direction looked like Devaki. 
Thamafprasangena vimuchyamaana gourprabhaa. The paleness  of her is 
the white light,gouraprabhaa of the moon who has risen from darkness 
as she is going to be freed from her sorrow, thamafprasangena 
vimuchyamaana. The Moon being the first forefather of the Yadhuvamsa, 
looked like a purohitha, priest  coming after bath from the ocean to 
do the samskara, the rites for the newborn. 

        The darkness that first came was like the haalaahala, the 
terrible poison which came out of the milky ocean, namely the eastern 
direction indicative of the subsequent emergence of Lakshmi, the good 
fortune of Yadhuvamsa. Desika  says later in describing Krishna that 
Lakshmi was always with the Lord which ever avathara he took because 
She is inseparable as the sloka goes ` Raaghavathve 
bhavathseetharukminee Krishna janamani anyeshuchaavathaareshu 
vishnoreshaa anapaayini.'It is said that even in Vamanaavathaara 
Lakshmi was in His chest to hide whom the Lord covered His chest with 
deerskin lest He could not take away the aisvarya of Bali if he gets 
the glance of Lakshmi, lakshmikataaksha.

         Then the auspicious time for the avathaara drew near. The 
wicked  people like Kamsa were sleeping and the good were awake like 
Devaki and Vasudeva.Vadfyagosha of divine instruments could be heard 
everywhere. The lamps in the house of Kamsa became extinct for no 
reason and so did the anguish in the minds of devotees.
Ashtami was chosen by the Lord for his avathaara as the eighth child 
and the next day Navami was going to be he day of the avathara of 
Yogamaaya.  Hence, as Desika puts it, ashtami became prathama and 
navami, dvitheeya. Krishna appeared at vrishabha lagna when the five 
planets, Chandra, angaraka,bhudha guru and sani were in exalted 
position. Desika describes His manifesting Himself as Devaki ,the 
eastern direction produced the Lord ,  the moon implying that He was 
not born in the usual way but as He says in the Gita `sambhavaami 
aathmamaayayaa' He only made Himself manifest as the moon coming out 
in the East.



        

        

        

                

        







 
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