Quiz of the Week # 4 Answer and Quiz # 5 and 6 (See at the end of this mail)

September 7, 2009

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Quiz of the Week # 4

UDIPI Sri Krishnan has another significant name.

What is that name and what is the significance?

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Dear Bhaagavatas:

We have received a few Answers to this Question.

Padmasani Sowmia (padmasanisowmia) is calling Udipi Krishnan as “Balakrishnan” and has given a background story supporting this. This, however, is a name by which Kutti Krishnan is always known. She has come very close to the correct answer but has just missed it though it is embedded in her story! Please see (1) below for her story.

bhavani nirmal (bonnie605) is calling Udipi Krishnan as “Muddu Krishnan” but says that she does not remember the exact significance except that her mother used to call him by that name. Please see (2) below for her reply.

These are indeed very intelligent guesses from both of them. We thank them sincerely and would like more readers to participate in future Quizzes.

We give at the end of this note Quiz # 5 and Quiz # 6 (which is an off-shoot question based on “Periya Perumal”)

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NOW FOR THE ANSWER for Quiz # 4We do not need any stories. Just have a look carefully at the figure of Lord Udipi Krishnan. You will notice that he holds a churning rope in one hand and a churning stick on the other. In Sanskrit, the rope is called “Paasa” and the stick is called “Manthaana”.

He is known as “paasa-manthaana paaNi” even as Sri Rama is called “kOdaNDa paaNi” because he is holding the bow called “kOdaNdam”

(1) Padmasani Sowmia (padmasanisowmia)

Padmasani Sowmia (padmasanisowmia)

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Sent:

Fri 9/04/09 6:09 AM

Ramanbil

Swamin,

Udupi Krishnan's other name should be Balakrishnan.

Significance for this is:

When Dwapara yuga comes to an end, Devaki was requesting Krishnan about his childhood leelais. Krishnan enacted his balaleelas to Devaki. Rukmini piratti was watching fell in love with this balaroopa, requested Krishnan to get her a similar image for her daily worship. Sri Krishna asked Viswakarma to make such an idol of Balakrishna out of Saligrama stone with a churn in its right hand and a cord in the other. This idol was daily worshipped by Rukmini. The very same Krishnan is there at Udupi.

This idol was daily worshipped by Rukmini. After Sri Krishna's disappearance from this world, the idol fell into the hands of Arjuna, who hid it in Rukmini's garden. By lapse of time the idol got completely covered by gopichandanam. A sailor from Dwaraka loaded this heavy lump in his boat as ballast, in one of his trips along the west coast. Sri Madhvacharya, sensing Lord Sri Krishna, by his divine gnana, awaited the arrival of this precious ballast at Vadabhandeswar, seashore near Udupi. When the boat approached that place it was caught by severe storm and was about to sink.

The captain of the boat, seeing a holy man on the sea shore entreated him to save him from disaster. Sri Madhvacharya waved his upper cloth and quieted the storm. The grateful captain offered all the riches in his boat to the Acharaya but he accepted only the lump of 'gopichandanam' which was used as ballast. On breaking this, Sri Acharya found the beautiful BalaKrishnan. He carried the idol to Udupi, a distance of four miles, singing the praise of Lord Narayana in ecstasy (" Dwadasa Stotra" by Madhvacharyar)

He washed the idol of Sri Krishna in Madhwa Sarovara and installed it in the temple nearby and started worshipping it. These poojas have been going on since then even to this day in unbroken continuity. This is the same murthy we see in Udupi as of today.

with respect,

Padmasani Sowmia

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(2) bhavani nirmal (bonnie605)

bhavani nirmal (bonnie605)

Sent:

Sun 8/30/09 11:18 PM

Ramanbil

Answer to Question 4

I remember my mother referring to him as "Muddukrishna". I do not remember the exact significance. But when Kanakadasa was unable to have his Darisanam, he perhaps addressed him as “Muddukrishna” and appealed to Him when a hole appeared on the wall "Kanakanakindi" to enable the devotee to see Him. I may be wrong.Bhavani

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New Questions:

Quiz # 5: Andal and Rukmini wanted to marry Krishna and refused to marry anyone else. Both used a similar simile but with a slight difference to convey this. What was the simile and what was the difference and why this difference?

Quiz # 6: If Lord Ranganatha and Lord Nrisimha are called “Periya Perumal” because Lord Rama worshipped them, there is yet another deity whom Lord Rama is said to have worshipped and so for this reason can rightfully claim to be called “Periya Perumal”.

Can we recognize this deity as “Periya Perumal”?

If so, why so?

If not, why not?

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Please read the questions carefully and send your answers to ramanbil so as to reach us on or before 13th September 2009

Dasoham

Anbil Ramaswamy

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