Advent of the Spring season
It was spring time in Brindavan The wind was soft and gentle and
The cuckoos, with their shrill note of Panchama svara, seemed to give their blessings to Manmatha,who has the bow called pundra and arrows of flowers and wishes to conquer the world.
The champak flowers with their red tips shone like the flames of the lamps for the festival of
The malaymArutham, southerly wind, which rose from the river Thamraparni, wandered around, strewing flowers all around, like the elephant with rut belonging to the god of love.
The Thamraparni is described as mukthApaga,the source of pearls. it is also the land of mukthas, released souls like Nammazvar.
In Bhagavatha it is said that there will be great bhakthas in the south and in the west during kaliyuga, in the lands where the rivers Thamraparni, Karveri and Mahanadhi flow.
kalou khalu bhavishyanthi nAraynaparAyaNAh
kvachit kvachit mahArAja dhravidEshu cha bhooriSah
thAmraparNee nadhee yathra krthamAlA payasvinee
kAvEree cha mahApuNya pratheechee cha Mahanadhee
Most of the azvars and acharyas were found in the
Hence the southerly wind coming from Thamraparni, like an elephant emerges after dipping in the river roamed around everywhere reachng the
The wind rising from its dip in the river implies coolness and carrying flowers in its wake denotes the fragrance thus pleasing to the senses.
When the bees sat on the flowers and rose from them it looked like the bowstring of
When
All animals shed their natural enmity and lion cubs and elephent cubs played happily together as though born of same mother drinking the milk of the she-lion..'simheevaSAsthanyavidhO bhajanthE subhrAthrthAm kEsaridhanthipOthAh.'
The river Yamunaa was fanning with her lotuses and it looked like Balarama with his blue garment with its white colour and its blue flowers ( indraneela)
Then inspired by the beauty of the scene
prAyasthadhAhvAnavidhou niyOkthum
pragrhya vENum prathipanna dhoothyam
nyavESayath kungmalithE saleelam
bibmbAdharE soochitha chittha rAgE.
He put the flute on his closed lips as though to send it as a messenger to convey his love to the gopis.
Then starts the descriprtion of the venugana and the arrival of gopis for Rasakreeda.
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