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60) Kinnara dvandhva shaapaanta
pradaathrE SrI VenkatEsaaya nama:
Salutations to VenkatEsa, who
liberated the Kinnara couple from their curse !
We have heard of Maharshi Durvaasa,
easily irascible and given to dealing out curses at the drop of a hat. A
Kinnara (a class of devaas with a predilection for song and dance) couple,
enjoying themselves with their usual occupation, disturbed the penance of
Durvasa and were cursed to be born as a hunter and his wife on Simhaachalam.
Relenting later over the couple's remorse, the Maharshi told them that
they would live for long as a hunting couple on Tirumala hills and obtain
relief thereafter with the anugraham of the Sveta Varaha Murthy, who would
manifest Himself on the hills. The tale of this couple has already been
narrated--they raised millets in a piece of land and partook of it after
offering it to the Lord every day . The Lord, in the form of a White Boar,
used to consume some of the millet every day and run away. When the hunter
pursued the boar one day, he found it disappearing into an anthill, which
was later dissolved in the milk of "Kaaraam pasu", to reveal the
Varaha Murthy, in all His splendour. The Lord then relieved the hunter couple
of their curse and rewarded their devotion with a berth in His own worlds.This
episode is chronicled in the Padma Purana thus--
"Kiraata vapushou veekshya
Vishnu: kinnara dampatee
Muni shaapaat mochayitvaa
dadou taabhyaam svakam padam"
Since the same Lord appears as the
Varaaha Murthy and as VenkatEsa, the exploit of the former is attributed to
the latter, in this nama.
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