Yadhavabhyudhaya-balakrishna

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BalaKrishna

 

Next Desika presents the picture of crawling Krishna. When krishna

crawled on the floor the dust covered his body all over. Desika says

that the earth goddess tried to embraced him under the pretext of

covering his body with dust. 'prAyO dharithree parishasvajE tham

sApathrapA sAndhrarajacchalEna.'

The joy of Nanda knew no bounds on seeing the face of Krishna which

was nirvyAja mandhasmitha dharsaneeyam, delightful to behold with his

spontaneous smile. When he lisped and pronounced the name of his

mother partly he was acclaimed by all.Everyone was pleased with his

attempt to speak which was fascinating, says Desika, because the

Lord who created all the worlds and gave them name and form, is here

praised by the people in Gokula for uttering his mother's name

partially. The upanishad says that after creating the world of beings

Brahman willed to enter them with their soul to give them name and

form.'anEna jeevEna AthmanA anupravisya nAmrupE vyAkaravANi.' (Chan.6-

3-2)

 

Then Krishna started to speak with clarity and his pronunciation had

the scent of veda, says Desika.' varNasvarAdhivyavasAyabhoomnA

sikshAvidhAm sikshaNam agryam Aseeth.' It was as though he was

teaching the gopis who tried to make him speak through his

pronunciation of letters and the intonation etc. which resembled that

of the vedas.

Next we have the delightful picture of Krishna trying to

stand. 'thameeshadhutthAya nileenabhArAth samprekshya

dhanthAnkurachAruhAsam;sanAthaneem dhrshtim ananya dhrshtih sAnandham

AlOkatha nandha pathnee.'He tries to stand a little but keeps falling

off and he smiles sweetly showing his budding teeth.Yasodha ho had no

eyes for any thing else, was looking at him, who is the eye of all,

with joy.

Here it would be interesting to see how Periazvar enjoys Krishna

having his first teeth.' kOla narumpavaLa senthuvar vAyinidai komaLa

veLLimuLai pOl sila pallilaga,' in his mouth, red like coral, there

are a few teeth showing like tender shoots of silver.

Yasodha teaches Krishna to walk and Desika enjoys the scene thus:

Yasodha took hold of his hands and made him walk and he keeps falling

now and then pretending that he could not walk more than few steps so

that his mother will pick him up and tries again. Who is he! The one

who measured the threeworlds with three steps and now manifest as a

child in order to protect the world.'padhaisthribhihkrAntha

jagaththrayam tham bhavyAsA bhAvina bAlabhAvam.'

Soon Krishna was walking all around marking the earth with his

footprints as though to put his seal on earth to drive away the

wicked.Next comes the scene where Krishna dances to the tune of the

gopis.