Guest guest Posted March 4, 2003 Report Share Posted March 4, 2003 adiyen ramanjuja dasan namaskar can anyone of you tell me why is Lord Krishna addressed as 'kannan' in tamil. rgds, harini Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 4, 2003 Report Share Posted March 4, 2003 respected harini please accept adiye's pranams adiyen is ignorant . i am having a mentor for me here ( he is learned person in sanksrit tamil and (modern science to some extent) i am reproducing what he told meon the spot in tamil the word kaN stands for agni and the Ezam vERRumai urubu (il , idam, kaN) he said in his geetha 1.(ahamasmi vaisvaanaro bUthva praNinaan thEhamaaSritha: without it we cannot survive. so to represent the agni he is called as kaNNan the word kaNavan is also comes from this root ( he is the only purusha and others are sthriis according to sri vaishnava philosophy) 2. the second term (il) veedu. he is the one who can give liberation even to non sentients. 3. third is( idam) in geetha he says EkamSena sthith jagath. the whole world is upheld by a single portion of his grace. ( nammalvar says naanRila Ez kadal thaanaththavE) and we dont have ab an ( aaNbaal vikuthi is added to him as he is purushoththaman these three points were told to me by him if you ask more you have to wait i will get more information from him and post with regards parankucan Harini Cadambi <h_cadambi wrote:adiyen ramanjuja dasan namaskar can anyone of you tell me why is Lord Krishna addressed as 'kannan' in tamil. rgds, harini Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 6, 2003 Report Share Posted March 6, 2003 To Harini Cadambi this point used to make me wonder, what is the meaning of Kannan in Tamil.My late Father was called Kannan and just before his death I asked him what does Kanna mean and He said with a smile-Kanna in tamil refers to dark complexion and naturally as I was dark my parents named me Kannan.Lord Krishna was so dark that that there is story in Vrindavan about him.After Krisna s time a temple was constructed in Vrindavana and then Aniruddhas wife was taken to temple,and she looked only at the complexion of the Lord and said -Oh he,My Grand father in law used to be as Dark as this Lord.The Lord took the complexion of darkness to remove our the darkness of our minds.This temple is still there and devotees in Vrindavana even now during kartik purnima month go on akhand Parikrama of brindavan including this temple.And in Our Rang Ji Mandir (built by Goverdhan Rangharji-Andal rangamannar temple)the lord is absolutely jet black. narasimhan --- Harini Cadambi <h_cadambi wrote: > adiyen ramanjuja dasan > namaskar > > can anyone of you tell me why is Lord Krishna > addressed as 'kannan' in tamil. > > rgds, > harini > > ______________________ Missed your favourite TV serial last night? Try the new, TV. visit http://in.tv. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 7, 2003 Report Share Posted March 7, 2003 Srimathe Ramanujaya Namaha Krishna, in sanskrit, means black or dark. Sukhlam means white. Sukhla paksham is that phase of the moon towards a Pournami(full moon) and Krishna paksham is that phase of the moon towards amavasya (new-moon, darkness). Draupadi's original name was Krishna based on her dark/black complexion as she came out of an yagnyam performed by drupadan. Similarly Lord Krishna was called so due to his very nature:) And I guess this got carried over to tamizh too i.e Kannan. Usually when we say "Kan", though it refers to the eyes, it is usually considered to be the pupil i.e the Kan-mani which is black in color. And hence, kannan - the one who looks like the pupil - that which is black and that is also beautiful(his eyes are famous for that - as Shri Aandal says, "kadaikkan ennum siraikkolaal":) Also, one may ask, why is it always mentioned that the lord is black in color, while he is compared to thousand suns and is also mentioned to be gold in color? I know I am not supposed to tell something of my own, but, I am just sharing what I have experienced. May be this would sound silly, and I request everyone to forgive me for the same. When I was in school, I used to see the Sun with the naked eyes(while I was all excited about the study of lenses). As I recollect, I remember that when one sees the sun with naked eyes, after constantly looking at it for quite a while, one wouldn't see a bright and golden sun, but would actually see a black ball. Whether it is due to the limitation of eye or illusion or whatever, it doesn't really matter (or, may be it used to happen only to me;). If this is the case with this sun that we see in our day to day life, then one might think of the plight of those who see the real sun, the lord, all the time - "Sadaaa Pashyanthi! Soorayahaa" with the eternal eyes "Diveeva Chakshuraathatham" - it makes me say, no wonder they see him as black and beautiful:). Any mistakes are solely due to my ignorance, and I request the learned members to forgive me and correct me. Yatheendra Pravanam Vandhe RAMYA Jaamaataram Munim Adiyen Ramanuja Dasan, Lakshmi Narasimhan bhakti-list, narasimhan kannan <narakannan> wrote: > To > Harini Cadambi > this point used to make me wonder, what is the meaning > of Kannan in Tamil.My late Father was called Kannan > and just before his death I asked him what does Kanna > mean and He said with a smile-Kanna in tamil refers to > dark complexion and naturally as I was dark my parents > named me Kannan.Lord Krishna was so dark that that > there is story in Vrindavan about him.After Krisna s > time a temple was constructed in Vrindavana and then > Aniruddhas wife was taken to temple,and she looked > only at the complexion of the Lord and said -Oh he,My > Grand father in law used to be as Dark as this > Lord.The Lord took the complexion of darkness to > remove our the darkness of our minds.This temple is > still there and devotees in Vrindavana even now during > kartik purnima month go on akhand Parikrama of > brindavan including this temple.And in Our Rang Ji > Mandir (built by Goverdhan Rangharji-Andal rangamannar > temple)the lord is absolutely jet black. > narasimhan > --- Harini Cadambi <h_cadambi> wrote: > > adiyen ramanjuja dasan > > namaskar > > > > can anyone of you tell me why is Lord Krishna > > addressed as 'kannan' in tamil. > > > > rgds, > > harini > > > > > ____________________ __ > Missed your favourite TV serial last night? Try the new, TV. > visit http://in.tv. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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