Where's this verse from?

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Dandavats. Jaya Prabhupada!

 

On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, Dhyanakunda (dd) (NE-BBT, Almvik - S) wrote:

> >So Where is it from? Now I'm not sure.. was it from a commentary on Mukunda

> >Mala stotram?

> No idea, but there could be various versions of MMS in circulation, and in

> such a case one would expect that the BBT chose the most authentic one. The

> BBT version has 53 verses. The old one (it doesn't give translator's name)

> has 60.

There are definitely other manuscripts of the MMS, and the "sri

govinda" verse appears as text eight in a typewritten manuscript I

received some twenty years ago from another devotee--it was said to be

the manuscript Prabhupada was working on, but I can't verify this. That

version has 60 verses. But the verse also appears as text five in the

MMS published as part of H.H. Bhaktisaranga Gosvami Maharaja's _Sri

Stava-kalpa-druma_ (pg. 364), published in Vrindaban (Imlitala: Sri

Mahaprabhu Mandira, 1959. That version also has 60 verses. I'm sure

there are other manuscripts too, but I don't know any more details.

 

 

> The verse could be a later interpolation. But beautiful it is!

In his Dvadasa-stotras, Madhva makes a similar comparison, saying

that the name of Krishna is the most potent drug. But I can't recall the

verse offhand.

 

 

 

> Here is another one that is not found in the BBT edition, yet it is

> beautiful:

>

> yat krtam yad karisyami

> tat sarvam na maya krtam

> tvaya-krtam tu phala-bhuk

> tvam eva madhusudana

>

> "O Lord Krsna, O killer of the Madhu demon, O rightful enjoyer of the fruits

> of action, whatever I have been or will be able to do, is not done by me,

> but by You."

This appears as text 20 in both Prabhupada's alleged mss. and

the SKD MMS.

 

 

 

> And here is yet another one that did not make it into the BBT edition... and

> I am glad it didn't:

> ma me stritvam ma ca me syat kubhavo

> ma murkhatvam ma kudesesu janma

> mithyadrstin ma ca me syat kadacij

> jatau jatau visnu-bhakto bhaveyam

> "Let me never take birth as a woman, or in a wretched condition, or as a

> fool, or in a sinful country, or bewildered by an untrue conception of life.

> Let me simply remain a devotee of Lord Visnu, birth after birth."

This one is in Prabhupada's alleged manuscript (text 18), as well

as in the SKD version (again, as text 18).

 

 

Here's one I like:

 

vande mukundam aravinda-dalAyatAkSaM

kuNDendu-zaGkha-dazanaM zizu-gopa-vezam |

indrAdi-deva-gaNa-vandita-pAda-padmaM

vRndAvanAlayam amuM vasudeva-sUnum ||

 

"I worship Mukunda, in the form of a cowherd boy, with blooming

eyes like lotus petals, with teeth like little jasmine buds, white as the

moon, like tiny conchshells. His lotus feet are worshipped by hosts of

gods headed by Indra; He is the son of Vasudeva, and His residence is Sri

Vrndavana."

 

 

Your humble servant,

 

MDd