Krishnakarnamrtham-Part2-Dhvitheeya aasvaasa

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Krishnakarnamrtham Part2-Dhvitheeya ASvaasaH

 

 

1.Abhinavanavaneetha snigDham aapeethadhugDham

dhaDhikaNao paridhigDhammugDham angam muraareH

dhiSathu bhuvanakrcChraChedhi thaapicChagucCHach

Chavi navaSikhipicChaalaancchitham vaancChitham naH

 

May the beautiful form of Krishna, which destroys the sorrow of the world, shining with smearing of fresh butter, sprinkled with the drops of curd, showing signs of recent drinking of milk, fulfil our wishes.

 

Krishna has a shining body, due to eating of fresh butter which adheres to his body or his body itself is shining on account of consuming fresh butter always. He has drunk milk and it is visible on his body perhaps on his lips. The curd particles are splattered on his body as he always hovers around his mother when she churns curd for butter. His head is decorated with peacock feathers freshly gathered and his body itself looks like a bunch of flowers on a green tree. This is the beautiful picture Leelasuka present to us of Krishna.

 

Desika describes the appearance of Krishna with his body splattered with curd thus:

 

grheshu dhaDhnaH maThanapravrtthou

prshathkaNaiH uthpathithaiH prakeernaH

nidharsayaamaasa nijaam avasThaam

praacheem suDhaaSeekarayogachithraam (Yad-4.28)

 

Krishna going near those who churn curd, with the desire of eating butter, looked splashed with curd all over his body which reminded one of his early state with his body splattered with amrtha at the time of churning the milky ocean.

 

The parallel idea is expressed by Kulasekhara in his Mukundamala.

 

KsheerasagaratharangaSeekaraa

saarathaarakithachaarumoorthaye

bhogibhogaSayaneeyaSaayine

maadhavaaya madhuvidhvishe namaH (Muk.39)

 

Our salutations to Madhava the slayer of the demon Madhu, who is reclining on the bed of Adhisesha, looks beautiful with His dark form on which the drops of the milky ocean shine like stars in the night.

The devotees delight in imagining that the Lord left the milky ocean and came to Gokula because he could get only milk and not curd and butter there