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Sri:

Dear Members :

Srimathy Saroja is immersing us in the delight of 
Swamy Desikan's MahA Kaavyam of Sri YaahavAbhudhaya .

On behalf of all of us , adiyEn would like to extend to Her our thanks 
for this Kaimkaryam and pray to Sri DEvaki Nandhana JaganmOhana 
KrishNan to  visit our homes thru these delectable postings .

NamO VaasudEvAya ,
V.Sadagopan 
Moderator 
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "sarojram18" <sarojram18@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <Oppiliappan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, March 26, 2006 6:37 AM
Subject: [Oppiliappan] Yadhavabhyudhaya


> 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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