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72) Srikaraaya nama:
This tirunaamam occurs in the 65th sloka of Sri Vishnusahasranamam.
The Lord of Seven Hills is renowned for showering on His devotees all that
is auspicious, be it wealth, wisdom, longevity or spiritual solace. All
that is good is represented by the word "Sri:" and one who
blesses His votaries with the best of everything is "Sreekara:".
There is apparently no limit to the bounties the Lord blesses us with.
According to Swami Desikan, even after showering the devotee with all
auspicous things in His possession, the Lord feels that He has done
precious little for the devotee--"tamadu anaitthum avar tamakku
vazhangium taam miga vilangum amaivudaya Arulaalar".
There are any number of examples for the Lord's Sreekaratvam. He
transformed the penniless Kuchela into an extremely wealthy person
overnight, all in return for a fistful of "aval". He raised Sri
Dhruva from the sorry state of a prince spurned by his own father, to the
exalted position of the Pole Star, reigning the skies with splendour. He
furnished the beleagured Draupati with a copious supply of cloth, saving
her modesty from being outraged by Ducchaasana. He arranged for the
Pandava princes, driven from their own land, to become rulers of
Hastinapura, through a bloody battle which eliminated much of the
riff-raff of the royal clan which was plaguing the world.
The aforesaid is the ordinary purport of "Sreekara:". The
Sahasranama nirukti slokas furnish a more interesting meaning for the
word--
"Vyuhaadishu avataareshu svaanuroopaam karoti taam
Shriyam ya: asou Shreekara: syaat munyarna: Shreekaro manu:"
The Lord is so enamoured of His Consort Sri, that He arranges for Her to
be born along with Him in all His avataaraas too, assuming forms
appropriate to His own. When He is born as the Magnificent Monarch Sri
Rama, She too takes birth as the daughter of an equally great king, Sri
Janaka, equal to and complementing Him in every way. During the
Krishnavatara, She is born as Rukmini, ideally suited to Him in all
respects. And so on. It is this trait of the Lord, in ensuring the
accompaniment of His Consort in all His avataaraas, that makes Him "Sreekara:".
This interpretation of the term is ideally suited to Srinivasa too, as He
arranged for Sri Padmavati to be born as the daughter of Akaasha Raaja and
wed Her at the earliest opportunity, making HIm a real "Srinivasa"
(abode of Sri or Mahalakshmi).
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