Sivaanandalahari - 69

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jaDatA paSutA kalaMkitA

kuTila-charatvaM cha nAsti mayi deva |

asti yadi rAjamaule

BavadABaraNasya nAsmi kiM pAtram || 69 ||

 

Idiocity, the characteristic of animals, blemishes and croked behaviour are

not present in me. Oh Shiva, who wears moon as an ornament, had I had the

above mentioned deficiencies like the moon would I not have also qualified

to be your ornament?

 

*Commentary*

 

*hE dhEva* = Hey! Swaprakaasa swaroopanE!

*jatathaa* = having the quality of jatam;

*kalangithaa* = a blot called 'guruthalpagamanam' (stealing the teacher's

wife and having intercourse with her);

*kutilacharathvam cha* = possessing the nature of awkward motion;

*mayi naasthi* = not with me;

*hE raajamoulE* = Hey! Chandrakalaadharaa!

*asthi yadhi* = if I have the above mentioned faults;

*bhavadhaabharaNasya* = to become your ornament;

*naasthi kim* = won't I be?

 

" Hey! Chandrakalaadharaa! Because of his jadathwam (foolishness), pasuthwam

(bruteness) and guruthalpagamanam (being completely inconsiderate to the

Guru - see note below) Chandra has kalangathwam (fault-riddenness) and

kutilacharathwam (proneness to move hapazardly)(crooked behavior). You have

taken him on your head because of these faults of him. I on the other hand

have no faults to speak of. Is it because of my faultlessness that I am not

taken by you as an ornament? Could you not take this faultlessness itself as

a fault and take me as an ornament? "

 

Note: Dhaksha Prajapathi has sixty daughters. Out of them twentyseven were

stars and Prajapathi married them off to Chandra and asked him to treat them

all equally. However, Chandra was more fond of RohiNi and this enraged his

other wives who complained to their father Dhaksha. Dhaksha in his anger

cursed Chandra that he would start losing his kalas one after the other.

Just about the time he was left with one Kala Chandra surrendered to Siva

who took him on his head as an ornament and because of that his lost kalas

started coming back. And in order that Dhaksha's curse is not in vain Siva

allowed that the losing and regaining of the kalaas in Chandra to take place

alternatively.

 

Also chandra had a misdemeanor with his Guru. He had an affair with the

Guru's wife when the Guru was away and had a child from her.