Dancing Krishna
Perhaps the scene opens as the gopis are churning the milk and
Krishna comes there and begs for butter and they tell him to dance if
he wants butter and this is described by Desika as follows:
ya Esha lOkathrayasuthradhArah
paryAyapASthrANi charAcharANi
AnarthayathyadhbhuthacheshtithOasou
nanarthakhElannavaneethakAngkshee
He who is the director of the three worlds causing the movable and
immovable beings enact their role in turn, with His wonderful act,
danced playfully (in front of the gopis) desirous of getting butter.
This Desika names as Navaneetha natyam in his Gopalavimsathi.
AavirbhvathyanibhrthaabharaNam purasthaath
aakunchithaikacharaNam nibhrthaanyapaadham
DHadhnaa nimanTha mukhareNanibaddhathaalam
naatTHasya nandhabhavane navaneethnaatyam
which means,
'Let the vision of Krishna dancing in the house of Nanda, His
ornaments sounding as He dances, with one foot steady and the other
bent , His navaneethnaatya, dance for butter,to the thala of the
churning of milk, appear in front of me'
In gokula, keeping close to the churning pot desiring butter, the
body of Krishna is splattered with drops of curd. Desika is reminded
of the form of the Lord splattered with drops of nectar, or milk
while churning the milky ocean.
The same idea is expressed by Kulasekhara in Mukundamala where he
says,
ksheerasaagaratharangaseekaraasaarathaarakrtha charumoorthaye
bhogibhogasayaneeyasaayine maadhavaaya madhvidvishe namah.
Salutations to Madhava ,the killer of Madhu, reclining on the bed of
adisesha, His body charming splattered with the drops from the waves
of the milky ocean, looking as though He is covered with stars.
The dance of Krishna desiring butter is described by Leelasuka also
thus:
Vadhane navaneethagandDHavaaham vachane thaskarachaathuree DHureeNam
nayanaakuhanaasru asrayetTHaah charaNam komalathaandavam kumaaram
Seek the foot of the boy who is dancing gracefully,with His mouth
smelling of butter,His speech showing Him to be the foremost of
cheats, His eyes ( on being told off) full of false tears.
The devotees imagine that the reason the Lord left the milky ocean
and came to gokula is because being milky ocean He can get only milk
there and not butter.
Perhaps this scene was in the mind of Oothukkadu venkatakavi when he
sang 'AdAdhu asangAdhu vAA kannA.' which is a beautiful song and
rshould be dealt with separately to bring out its beauty.
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