chapter-8-
When Krishna was about to leave for Dvaraka after consoling the Pandavas and Droupadi, he saw Utthara running towards him with a plea to save her foetus The words of Utthara were significant. She said 'nAnyamthavdhabhayam paSyE yathra mrthuh parasparam.' "In this world where everyone is the enemy of every one else, I do not see any other saviour than you." She told Krishna that she is being burnt inside with the missile as though with a red hot iron and prayed that her foetus should be saved even at the cost of her life.Then Krishna understood that this is the Asthra sent by Asvatthama to demolish the clan of Pandavas and protected the foetus with His sudarsana chakra as a shield by entering inside the womb of Utthara.
'anthasThah sarvabhoothAnAm AthmA yogEsvarO harih;svamAyayAvrNOth garbham vairAtyAh kuruthanthavE.' The Lord who is the inner self of all and resides in all covered the foetus with His mAya for the sake of propagating the clan of Kurus. Actually the Lord is capable of protecting the child without entering inside the womb as He is the antharyami of all but he appeared inside in a minute form to grace Parikshit, who later became a great bhagavatha. He came to be called Parikshit because as a child he was examining (pareekshaNam) everyone who came near, desirous of finding the divine being who appeared to him while he was in the womb of his mother. The asthra Asvatthama sent was the Brahmasthra and was infallible .Hence even though the foetus was saved the child was born charred. Then
When at last
Kunthisthuthi:
"You are 'Adhya Purushah eeSvarah prakrthEh parah,' the prime purusha, who resides within all beings without they being aware of it.You are not recognised by the ignorant, like an actor who is well disguised in his costume. You are hidden behind the curtain of your maya. You are adhOkshaja, beyond sense-cognition and avyaya,immutable. When you are not seen even by sages and paramahamsas how can a mere woman like me understand you."
The famous verse 'krishnAya vasudhEvaya dgEvakeenandhanAyacha,nandhagopakumAraya govindhAya namOnamah,' occurs only in this sthuthi. The next verse is also beautiful, 'namsthe pankajanAbhAya namasthe pankajamAlinE; namah pankaja nEthrAya namasthE pankajAnghraye, salutations to you having lotus in your navel,and wearing garland of lotuses, of lotus-eyed and lotus feet.'
Then Kunti continued thus:
"You have been our saviour whenever we faced troubles and let us face more and more trouble if it would only secure us your darsan whcih will free us from bondage. You are akinchanagochara, accessible only to simple folk who do not have anything except your bhakthi and you are agochara ,inaccessible to those who are arrogant due to wealth,birth or learning.Being the innerself of all, taking different sariras is a play for you."
Then Kunthi remembered his balaleela.She said that she is filled with wonder in imagining his tear-filled face, when his mother tied him to a mortar, as though in fear because even fear will be afraid to come to him 'bheerapi yadhbibhEthi.'
Kunthi then prayed to
The last verse of her sthuthi is as follows:
srikrishna krishnasakha vrshnivrshabha avanidhrug
rAjanyavamSadhahanAnapavargaveerya
gOvindha gOdhvijasurArthiharavathara
yOgESvarAkhilagurO bhagavnnamasthE
It means "salutations to you Krishna,the friend of Arjuna(who also had a name krishna), the bull among the yadhavas, You are like the forest fire for the bamboos in the form of wicked kings.You have incarnated for removing the suffering of cattle, brahmins and devas and you are the Yogesvara and Jagatguru."
Sootha said that on hearing this
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