Sri Bhu Sthuthi Part 2

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Dar BhakthAs of Sri Bhu Devi SamEtha

Sri Oppiliappan :

 

We will now cover the individual slOkAs

of the eulogy of Swami Desikan on BhU PirAtti

of ThiruviNNagar Divya Desam .

 

Yaj~na VarAha dayithai is BHU PirAtti

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This slOkam salutes BhUmi Devi as the consort

of Yaj~na VarAha PerumAn .She later incasrnated

as SitA Piratti and ANDAL , when the earth

was ploughed by King JanakA and PeriyAzhwAr

respectively in different yugAs .

 

She incarnated at ThiruviNNagar ( TuLasi Vanam )

as the beautiful child under a TuLasi plant .

Sage MarkandEya picked up the lovely child and

raised as his daughter and gave her away in

marriage to ThiruviNNagarAn .

 

In one of the previous yugAs , an asuran

by the name of HiranyAkshan stole Her and

hid under the ocaean to escape the wrath of

Her Lord . Sriman NaarAyaNA took the form of

a gigantic VarAham and entered the ocean ,

sought after the cowardly HiraNyksahan ,

destroyed him in battle and recovered HIs

dear Consort . The VarAha PerumAn's svarUpam

is the embodiment of Yaj~nams and is the most

sacred . He has taken a kapata VarAha rUpam

saluted by Swami Desikan in the DasAvathAra

sthOthram as " guhanA pOthri " . The magnificent

Veda Dhvani arising out of the nostrils of that

Kapata VarAhan joyously lifting His consort

( BhU VarAha Mahishee )on His tusk is saluted by

Swami Desikan as purifying all the worlds

(Pavithreekrutha BrahManda : ) . The PraLaya

kaal samudhram is like a little ditch under his

feet . There He holds His consort (DharaNI )

as DharaNIdharan and blesses us all in that

happy frame of mind .

 

Srimadh BhAgavatham's & Sri NaarAyaNa-

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Bhattadhiri's salutation to Yaj~na VarAhan :

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At the end of destruction of the offending

HiraNyAkshan , BhU VarAhan gave the darsanam

to the assembled DevAs and Sages as Yaj~na

VarAhan . Consisten to the adoraation , " Yaj~nO

vai VishNu : " He prsented Himself as

Yaj~na VarAhan . His Sareeram is recognized as

the embodiment of VedAs . The sages came from

JanO lOkam , TapO lOkam and Sathya lOkam to

have the darsanam of this Yaj~na/Veda rUpi as

described by Srimadh Bhagavatha slOkam

in the third canto ( 3.13.44 ):

 

vidhunvathA VEDAMAYAM nijam VAPUR

Janastapa: Sathya nivAsinO vayam I

satA sikhothbhUtha SivAmbhu Bindhubir

vimrujyamAnA bhrusameesa bhaavithA : II

 

When he Lord shook His gigantic body

as He came out of the Ocean water ,

those droplets of water leaving His body

( Veda maya sareeram )went all the way upto

the JanO , TapO and Sathya lOkams and fell on

the sages there and purified them in every way .

They got a clear picture of waht was

happening and came running to have the darsanam

of the Veda mUrthy and Yaj~na SvarUpi

carrying His dear consort on His tusk .

 

What they saw there is described by the following

two SlOkams of Srimadh Bhagavatham ( 3.13.35,36 ):

 

rUpam tavaithanannanu dushlruthAthmanAm

dudarsanam DevayadhadhvarAthmakam I

cchAndhAmsi yasya tvachi barhirOma-

svAjyam dhrusi tvangrishu chAthurhOthram II

 

srugh tunda aaseeth sruva yeesa nAsayO

ridOdharE chamasA karNarandhrE I

prAsithramAsyE grasanE grahAsthu

thE yaccha varNam thE BhagavannagnihOthram II

 

( meaning ) : The sges and the DevAs saw

the cchandas like Gaayathri et al on this

Yaj~na VarAha mUrthy's shoulders ( Tvachi ) ;

the Dharba grass assembly on the hair ;

ghee offered in the Yaj~nam in the eyes

of that Yaj~na Purushan ; the karmAs

performed by ht efour Rthviks were found

on the feet ; the Juhu named Srugh was seen

on the face ofthe Lord ;the karunkAli spoon

used to lift the ghee in yaj~nam known as

sruvam was found on the noseof the Lord ;

the vessel used to hold the havis known as

purOdasam was found on the stomach; the wodden

shallow vessel used to hold sOma rasam for

homam and ingestion were found in the ears of

the Lord ; the vessel used to hold the

havis for BrahmA known as PrAsithram

was found in the mouth of the Yaj~na VarAhan ;

the mortar like yaj~nA vessel known as

graham used for collecting sOma rasam was

found inside the deepr cavities of the mouth ;

the food ( havis ) consumed by the Lord

was seen as agnihOthram .

 

The assembled bhAgyavantha: saw further

in the body of the Yaj~na VarAha mUrthy

the following aspects :

 

** bhagavadh svarUpam appearing frequently

as the ishti of the Yaj~nam known

as DheekshiNyA

 

** The upasath ishti as the neck of the Lord

 

** the PrAyaNeeya ishti observed at the beginning

of Yaj~nam and the udhayaNeeya ishti observed

at the end of the Yaj~nam as the two cannine

tusks (teeths )

 

**Pravarkya vessel as the Tongue

 

** the two agnis ( Sappayam and Aavasathyam )

as the head of the Yaj~na NaaraayaNan

 

** the stacked up ishtakais as prANans

 

** the rethas of the Lord as soma rasam

 

** the three savanams ( PrAthas,

MaadhyAntheena and trutheeya savanam )

as the seat of the Lord

 

** agnishtOmam , athyagnishtOmam ,

Ukthyam , Shodasee , VaajabhEyam ,

athirAthram , AbdhOryAmam ( seven Soma

Yaj~na samsthAs ) were seen as the skin ,

blood , flesh , methas , bones ,

majjai , sukram ( seven dhAthus )

 

** DhvAdhAsAha sathrams as the junctions

( sandhees) of the body

 

** BhagavAn HImself as the Yaj~na svarUpi without

affiliation to the sOma rasam and with the ishtis

as ropes .

 

Sri NaarAyaNa Bhatthadhiri condenses these

two slOkams in the ninth slOkam of the

thirteenth dasakam of Sri NaarAyaNeeyam :

 

tvachi chandhO romasvapi kusagaNascchakshushi grutham

chathurhOthArOangraou srugapi vadanE chOdara iDA I

grahA jihvAyAm thE parapurusha karNE cha chamasA:

vibhO sOmO veeryam Varadha galadEsEapyupasadha : II

 

Sri Bhattadhiri addresses the Lord as Para(ma)

purusha and Varadha( boon grating Lord )for

those who see Him in this form .

 

These descriptions point out that all

the Veda karmAs are performed for raching

the Lord and that Yaj~nAs , Yaj~na vessels ,

rthviks , Ishtis andf Homams are Bhagavdh

rUpam . The inner meaning is that those , who

learn and understand VedAs properly will not

see all the karmAs and the