Yadhavabhyudhaya

October 28, 2006

Yadhavabhyudhaya-chapter4(cont.d) 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.

May god bless you,

Dr. Saroja Ramanujam, M.A., Ph.D, Siromani in sanskrit.

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