SrI vishNu sahasra nAmam - Slokam 70 - kRtAgamah.

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661. kRtAgamah - a) The Revealer of the sacred mantra-s to the

pure-minded.

b) He who has propounded the pA'ncarAtra Agama-s.

c) He Who has given us the Sruti-s and the smRti-s.

d) He from Whom the kRta yuga emerged

e) He who victoriously entered the gathering of His kith and kin after

slaying keSi

f) He Who appears to His devotees again and again in whatever form

they desire.

 

om kRtAgamAya namah.

 

a) SrI BhaTTar explains the nAma as referring to His being the Revealer

of the mantra-s to those who are pure-minded. Every mantra has

associated with it a mantra-drashTA, the Seer or sage who is associated

with the revelation of that mantra. It is He who is in the form of the

mantra Itself, and reveals Himself to the mantra-drAshTA in the form of

the mantra. Thus, His nAma as kRtAgamah.

 

b) SrI kRshNa datta bhAradvAj gives the derivation thus - kRto viracita

upadishTo vA Agamah pA'ncarAtra-SAstram yena iti kRtAgamah - He is

called kRtAgamah because He propounded the pA'ncarAtra Agama. The

pA'ncarAtra Agama was given to us directly by bhagavAn, and thus has

the same authority as the veda-s. Readers are referred to the series

on pA'ncarAtra that has appeared in this list for more details on

pA'ncarAtra and its origin.

 

c) SrI Samkara interprets the term "Agama" in a generic sense to refer

to all Sruti-s and smRti-s, and thus gives the interpretation that He

is called kRtAgamah because He is the author (originataor) of the

Agama-s - the Sruti-s and smRti-s. He quotes bhagavAn's own words -

Sruti smRtI mamaiva A~jne - The Sruti and smRti are My commands. Later

on in SrI vishNu sahasra nAmam, Sage vyAsa declares - vedAh SastrANi

vi~jnAnam etat sarvam janArdanAt - The veda-s, SAstra-s, wisdom, and

all these, came from janArdana (Lord vishNu).

 

SrI aNNa'ngarAcArya gives the following crisp interpretation from

prabandham, which contains an ocean of thoughts - "kalaigaLum vedamum

nIdi nUlum kaRpagamum SoL poruL tAnum maRRai nilaigaLum vAnavarkkum

piRarkkum nIrmaiyinAl aruL Seidavar - peria tirumozhi 2.8.5" - He Who

gave the veda-s, vedAnta sUtra-s, itihAsa-s, kalpa sUtra-s, vyAkaraNa,

mImAmsA, etc., to the deva-s and to the mansuhya-s, by His sheer

kindness towards them.

 

d) SrI cinmayAnanda gives yet another angle - consistent with the

interpretation that He is the Destroyer of brahmA at the time of

pralaya for the previous nAma, the current nAma can be interpreted as

One who then inaugurates the kRta yuga (kRta Agamah). Thus, He is the

One into whom the whole world dissolves at the time of pralaya, and

from whom the world re-emerges at the beginning of the next yuga.

 

e) SrI baladeva vidyAbhUshan continues his thoughts from the previous

Slokam dealing with keSi vadham, and gives the interpretation to the

current nAma that He is kRtAgamah because He finished off kESi and then

victoriously entered the assemblage of His kith and kin (probably the

root he draws on is kR himsAyAm - to kill, and gam gatau - to go).

Here kRta refers to the act of destruction of keSi, and Agamah refers

to His gamana or arrival in the midst of His kith and kin.

 

f) SrI satyadevo vAsishTha uses the roots kR karaNe - to do, and gam

gatau - to go, to derive his meaning, and gives the following

interpretation - kRta Agamo yena sa kRtAgamah -BhagavAn does the act of

appearing to His devotees in whatever form they desire, in response to

the stuti of the stotrA-s of the devotees. He bases his

interpretation on the Rg-vedic mantra 8.3.13-14:

 

kadu stuvanta Rtayanta devata Rshih ko vipra ohate |

kadA maghavan indra sunvatah kadu stuvata Agamah ||

 

"What prayers shall we the mortals sing, so that You will appear in

response to the call of the priaser?"

 

The dharma cakram writer, in the issue of May 1998, describes the

Agama-s and the veda-s under the term darSana, and then gives a

detailed description of their different classifications under the

groups of nyAya, vaiSeshika, mImAmsa, sAnkhya, yoga, and vedAnta. He

also goes into further sub-classifications under these. He points out

that all these different categories of darSana-s are provided to us by

bhagavAn Himself, or by those who are blessed with the right knowledge

by Him, in order to guide us towards Him. This is the explanation for

the nAma kRtAgamah that is provided by the dharma cakram author.

 

-dAsan kRshNamAcAryan

 

 

 

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