Krishnakarnamrtham Part2-Dhvitheeya ASvaasaH
1.Abhinavanavaneetha snigDham aapeethadhugDham
dhaDhikaNao paridhigDhammugDham angam muraareH
dhiSathu bhuvanakrcChraChedhi thaapicChagucCHach
Chavi navaSikhipicChaalaancchitham vaancChitham naH
May the beautiful form of
Desika describes the appearance of
grheshu dhaDhnaH maThanapravrtthou
prshathkaNaiH uthpathithaiH prakeernaH
nidharsayaamaasa nijaam avasThaam
praacheem suDhaaSeekarayogachithraam (Yad-4.28)
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.
2. yam dhrshtvaa yamunaam pipaasuH aniSam
vyooho gavaam gaahathe
vidhyuthvaan ithi neelakanTanivaho
yam dhrashtum uthkanTathe
utthamsaaya thamaalapallavam ithi
cChindhanthi yam gopikaaH
kanthiH kaaliyaSaasanasya vapushaH
saa paavanee paathu naH
Seeing the light of whose body the thirsty cows take it to be the river yamuna and try to enter, the peacocks become eager thinking that it is the rain-bearing cloud and the gopis see it as the green sprouts of thmala tree and start picking it, may that light emitted by the body of Krishna protect us.
The dark hue of the body of
Leela suka calls
This sloka describes the dark hue of
3.dhevaH paayaan payasi vimale yaamune majjatheenaam
yaachantheenaam anunayapadhaiH vanchithaani amSukaani
lajjaa lolaiH alasavilasaiHunmishathpanchabaanaiH
gopasthreeNaam nayankusumaiH archithaH keSavo naH
May the Lord Kesava , who was entreated with sweet words by gopis, to give them their clothes stealthily taken by him while they were bathing the river Yamuna, who was worshipped by their bashful, loving and stealthy glances, protect us.
The significance of this episode will be elaborated in a later sloka. (No.8), and it is enough to mention here that all the leelas of Brindavan were finished by the time
4. maathaH na athaH param anuchitham
yath khalaanaam purasthaath
asthaaSankam jaTarapiTaree
poorthaye narthithaa asi
thath kshanthavyam sahajasaralE
vathsale vaaNi kuryaam
prayaschittham guNagaNanayaa
gopaveshasya vishNoH
Oh mother, Goddess Saravathi, vaani, who is gentle by nature, sahjasarale, who has love towards her children, vathsale, there is nothing more improper, na athaH param anuchitham, than making you dance in front, narththaa asi, of mean people, khalaanaam purasthaath, just to fill my stomach, jaTarapiTare, without any hesitation, astha aSankam. Please forgive me, kshanthavyam. I am atoning the sin, praayaschittham kuryaam by speaking about the auspicious qualities, guNagaNanayaa, of Lord Vishnu who had come in the guise of a gopa, gopaveshasaya vishNoH.
Leelasuka repents that he has been composing poems and praising the wicked and thus abusing the speech which is Sarasvathi herself. So he asks the forgiveness saying that he was using her as if making her dance in front of the wicked just to make his living. He says that the atonement of this sin is only to speak about the Lord who has incarnated as
5.angulyagraiH aruNakiranaiH mukthasamrudDharanDhram
vaaram vaaram vadhanamarythaavenumaapooryantham vyasthyasthaanGhrim vikachakamalacChaayavisthaaranethram
vandhe brndhaavansucharitham nandhagopalasoonum
I bow down to the son of Nanda, who, is repeatedly opens and closes the holes of the flute with his red fingertips, and fills the flute with the air from his mouth with his feet crossed one over the other.
Reading this we can visualize the form of
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