a special paasuram

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Dear sri vaishNava perunthagaiyeer,

 

Here is one of the grammatically excellent paasurams. First, the paasuram from

moonraam thiruvanthaadhi and then how it has the grammatical excellence.

 

peRRam piNai marutham pEi mulai maach chagadam

muRRak kaaththoodu pOi uNdu udhaiththu kaRRuk

kuNilai viLankanikkuk koNdu eRinthaan veRRip

paNilam vaai vaiththu uganthaan paNdu. - paasuram no 64

 

You have to readjust the words to get the real meaning - like

peRRam muRRak kaaththu

piNai marutham oodu pOi

pEi mulai uNdu

maach chagadam udhaiththu

 

balance paasuram to be read as it progresses.

 

To give the meaning of above paasuram-

 

KrishNa as a child did

1. peRRam muRRak kaaththu - grazed the cows and calves in its entirety of the

village - peRRam means pasukkaL - cows and calves, muRRa - in its entirety,

kaaththu - protected - means took them to forests for grazing, grazed and

brought them back home safely from the forests, without these being attacked by

wild animals etc.

2. piNai marutham oodu pOi - the two gandharvaas because of their own actions

received a curse to stand as marutha trees, stood jointly in the backyard of the

house of krishNa for their saapa vimOchanm - release from curse - oodu pOi -

krishNa crossed the trees to give the desired release of these two gandharvaas.

3. pEi mulai uNdu - the poothana samhaaram episode - simply put across as -

sucked the breasts of the demon poothana who came with the intention of killing

child krishNa by giving poisoned breast milk.

4. maach chagadam udhaiththu - kicked the big cart - the sagada asuran episode -

who came as the wheel of a big cart with the intention of killing child krishNa,

while krishNa was in his cradle.

5. kaRRuk kuNilai viLankanikkuk koNdu eRinthaan - kaRRu - the calf, kuNil - a

small staff, - the calf thrown like a small staff to beat a small fruit in the

tree - children generally while going to graze cows and calves take two three

staffs, similar way krishNa threw the asura like a staff, [who came as calf] to

beat another asura who stood in the tree as the fruit, by that one action, both

fell dead.

6. veRRip paNilam vaai vaiththu uganthaan paNdu - paNilam means sangu - the

conch - paanchajanyam of krishNa - he blew the conch for success of the

paaNdavaas at the beginning of war at the kurukshEthra - by that action of

blowing of krishNa, it is described in the bagavath geetha, that the hearts of

sons of dhritharaashtra were broken. PaNdu means olden days.

 

Now the grammatical specialty- there are four different nouns or actions are in

the first line.

 

Their corresponding verbs are found in the second line in the same order. This

is the specialty.

 

Generally the subject and predicate [noun and verb] follows each other with the

object coming in the queue.

 

Here four subjects or objects first. Then four verbs.

 

This kind of arrangement is called yathaa sankhya alankaaram in sanskrit

grammar.

 

The definition of that alankaaram is

udhdhishtaanaam padha arthhaanaam poorvam paschaadh yathaa kramam |

anudhdhEsO BhavEth athra thath thath athra thath yathaasankhyamishyathE ||

 

[re page 547 prathaapa rudhreeyam krishnadhaas varanasi publication]

 

meaning: where you have a particular order of words in the first line,

correspondingly if you relate their actions or descriptions in the second line

in the same order, then it is called yathaa sankhya alankaaram.

 

You can find this in the paasuram - 4 different actions of krishna in first

line- four different verbs describing them in second line in same order.

 

That is the specialty.

 

This I heard in the upanyasam recently of sri TERanganathachar swamy of

nanganallur [who was my hindhi teacher also incidentally when both [myself and

swamy] were in government service].

 

Since it was most enjoyable, I wanted to share with the readers.

 

Dhasan

 

Vasudevan m.g.