Dear sri vaishNava perunthagaiyeer,
It is something natural or normal for all of us to hear that children are born
naked. That means they wore nothing but a skin only as covering or dress, which
comes as part of the body. That is common. It is the same case with all other
living beings also. Similarly the born child has two legs, two hands, 20
fingers, one head with eyes, ears, mouth, nose etc are some thing normal.
There is a film song also that reads "aadaiyinRip piRanthOmE aasaiyinRip
piRanthOmaa?" by the famous lyricist kaNNadaasan. [born without dress but have
we been born without any desire? sings the poet].
If there is any particular part in excess, like an extra finger [more than the
normal 20], then such a child is seen as abnormal. There is also a proverb
"aaRu viralkaaran adhrushtak kaaran - fellow who has 6 fingers is a lucky
fellow. Whether he is really is something different.
On the other side, if some thing short like a hand is missing or leg is short,
then also that child is called abnormal. [nowadays a new term is used to denote
them as physically challenged, not as physically handicapped].
When such a slight deviation in parts of the body itself is termed abnormal, if
the child is born dressed with clothes etc, partly or fully then how to term
it? Like how the mother decorates him/her child afterwards with all selected
stuff, the child is decorates himself or herself in the womb itself and comes
out into this world, then what you call that. Can we put it as "a wonderful
wonder".
Just guess or imagine what will be the reaction of such a mother who has given
birth to such a "dressed" child? Will she be scared or wonder struck? If a
child is born with an armour [kavacham], and ear rings [kuNdalam] inseparable
from the body, then, what will be the reaction of that lady who has given birth
to such a child. That way, maybe that exception in karNan, the son of sun, is
itself one of the reasons for his mother to discard him, at the time of birth.
May be she was scared so much with this kind of exceptional child, she did that
act of 'discarding'. [other reasons are not considered here as they are out of
context].
If that is the case, when a child is born with
- four arms
- colour of the body blue like a cloud
- neither sigappu [reddish] nor karuppu [blackish] nor a maa
niRam [moderate sigappu or karuppu mixture]
- fully dressed with peethaambaram - yellow colour dress
- different types of jewelry adorned in the body all glittering,
- hair nicely dressed,
- neck garlanded with flowers etc
All these are noticed at the time of birth. Just imagine what will be the
reaction of the mother. Guess the father's position that has a look at such his
child. That too when both these parents are in 'constant fear' about begetting
their next child, already having the experience of seven of their children
getting killed immediately by none other than the children's own uncle.
Perhaps in the history of mankind except these two children - 'karNan' and
'krishNan', no body else was born dressed with some thing. Perhaps one can
advance an argument 'narasimhan' was born fully dressed. Out of a pillar, when
he came out, he was fully dressed. Agreed, but narasimhan was 'fully grown'
also and hence can not be counted as a 'born dressed' child. So narasimham is
not to be included. bhagavathaas can give any other instances if available
since this writer can not think more in this line.
The reaction of the parents is fully described in sreemadh bhaagavatham as -
slOkam 9, 10, and 11 of third chapter sreemadh bhaagavatham:
tham adbhutham baalakam ambuja eekshaNam
chathur bhujam sankha gadhaaryudha aayudham |
sreevathsa lakshmam galasObhi kausthubham
peethaambaram saandhra payOdha soubhagam ||
mahaarha vaidhoorya kireeta kuNdalathvishaa
parishvaktha sahasra kunthalam |
udhdhaama kaanchyangadha kankaNaadhibhir
virOchamaanam vasudhEva aikshath ||
sa vismaya uthphulla vilOchanO harim
sutham vilOkayaanaka dhundhubhisthadha |
krishnaavathaarOthsava sambhramO ~sprusan
mudhaa dhvijEbhyO~yuthamaapluthO gavaam ||
meaning: of slOkams 9 -10: That wonderful child was, resplendent with
lotus-like eyes and four arms holding different weapons, decorated with the
sreevathsam mark, the shining kausthubham around His neck, His yellow garments
and a beautiful hue like that of rain clouds. Sri vasudhEva saw Him brilliantly
decorated sparkling with a vaidooryam studded kreetam [head gear or helmet] and
earrings to the beauty of profusely scattered locks of hair, an exquisite belt
around the waist and bands and bracelets on His arms.
[of slOkam 11] He, aanaka dundubhi, [vasudhEva's another name] struck with
wonder upon seeing the beautiful countenance of the Lord as his son, at the
time overwhelmed by great jubilation dreamt of holding a festival to the
descendent of Krishna, at which he could distribute a ten thousand cows to the
brahmaNaas who are twice born.
Dear bhakthaas you all will wonder what this person wants to say on the birth
of krishNa which every knows as many of you would have read sreemadh
bhaagavatham [at least in translated form if not in sanskrit].
The main intention of me is to highlight a krithi of oothukkadu venkata subbu
iyer [OVS mahan] which looks like a maNipravaLa extract of these slOkams of
bhagavatham.
Now read the krithi.
Raagam: naattakurinji thaaLam: aadhi thaaLam
pallavi:
adbhuthanaam baalakanaam ambuja eekshaNaam
ananthanaam nandha maayavanai vasudhEvan kaNdu koNdaan
anupallavi:
vathsamenum maruvum maalaiyum kausthubhamum
maarbinilE viLanga moolath thaththuva sankhamum
chakkaramum gadhaiyum thaamaraiyum naalu kaigaLil ilanga
meththa oLi minnaladu naaNa peethaambaramum
mEniyadhu kaarmukhilin neela niRamE thaghavum
muththu navaratthina padhakka makutak-katakam
munji puri noolum aparanji maNi takkaNamum kaatti
pazha vinaigaL Otti karuNai vizhi kootti
aanandham ootti bhakthi neRi naatti mandha naghai kaatti
khara kamalam -aattiya paramEttiyavan karuNai koLum [adbhuthanaam]
charaNam:
kaNdaan kaNdu koNdaan aNdarum kaaNaadha athisaya maayavanaik
karpakamum nava nidhiyum kaamadhEnuvum bhuvanangaLai oru
kudaiyil kattik - kaavalooRum perum padhamum kaivalyamum
indhirap - padhaviyOdu siddhigaL ettum idhO enavum
paRai kotti muzhakkiyum avaigaLai oru kaNam
ettik kasandhadhu ena veruththidum -uLam attiyillaadha
aanandhamaaga neelath - thirumEniyanai nirmalanai
niththiyanai niraakaaranai nirguNanai oru kaNa ninaivaarkada
nenjam iruppavanait thaththuvanai dhaayakanaith-
thaarakanai senthaamaraiyaaL aga naayakanai
kaNNaarath-thaanavanai thaanavanai
thaanavanai thaanavanaik- kaNdaan [adbhuthanaam]
[Those who can not read and understand this krithi, please excuse me for the
time being and wait till next post].
Dhasan
Vasudevan m.g.
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