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15.avyaajamanjula mukhaambujamugDhabhaavaih

     aasvaadhyamaana nijaveNuvinodha naadham

     aakreedathaam aruNapaadhasaroruhaabhyaam

     aardhre madheeya hrdhaye bhuvanaardhram ojah

 

May the light, that is Krishna, who wets the whole universe with his love, play in my heart which is soaked in devotion, with his feet like red lotus, with his lotus-like face naturally expressive, enjoying the sound of music from his flute.

 

Leelasuka  expresses a wish that  Krishna should play in his heart in His lustrous  form, His lotus- red feet dancing on the heart wet with devotion.  The heart without devotion is hard like a stone and the feet of the Lord as soft as lotuses will get hurt by moving on it. Hence Leelasuka  assures the Lord  that his heart is soft because it is soaked in devotion and Krishna can play in it happily. The poet  imagines the lustrous form of the Lord, charming by nature and expressive of love and joy arising out of the music from his flute. The whole universe is immersed in the love of Krishna and so it is no wonder that the heart of the poet is also soaked with love.

 

 

16.maNinoopuravaachaalam vandhe taccharaNam vibhoH

     lalithaani yadheeyaani lakshmaaNi vrajaveeThishu

 

I bow down to the feet of the Lord, which mark the streets of  Gokula  with His footsteps, accompanied with the eloquent sound of His anklets.

 

The streets of Gokula  are marked with the footsteps of Krishna with the signs of shankha,  chakra etc. found on His foot  and the sound of his anklets seems eloquent due to their incessant sound made by His running and playing on the streets.

 

Sri Yamunacharya  in his sthothra rathna says,

 

Kadhaapunah shankha raThaanga kalpaka

Dhvaja aravindha ankuSa vajra laancChanam

thrivikrama thvaccharaNambujadhvayam

madheeyamoorDhaanam alamkarishyathi ( Alavandar sthothrarathnam-31)

 

When will  thy lotus-feet  adorn my head, Oh Lord  Thrivikrama, the feet marked with the sign of, shankha, the conch, chakra, the disc,  dhvaja, the flag,  aravindha, the lotus, ankuSa, the goad and vajra, thunderbolt?

 

Periazvar says, describing the footsteps of Krishna,

 

orukaaliRsangu orukaaliR chakkaram uLladi poRitthamaindha

irukaalum kondu angangu ezudhinaaRpOl ilacchinai pada nadandhu

 

The uLLadi, that is the under-feet  are marked with shankha and chakra respectively and when he walks,  he seems to put his seal on the floor.

 

 

Here an episode described by some upanyaasaka comes to the mind. When Krishna and Balarama were crawling on the floor Balarama heard a sweet sound  and not knowing what it was, stopped and seeing him Krishna also stopped .Then the sound stopped. Krishna laughed and moved on as though saying that if they stop the sound also will stop, because it was the sound of their anklets.

 

Hearing this  the mind wonders whether Balarama could have been that naïve not knowing  what the sound was and therefore stopping to hear it.  Then this sloka came to mind.

 

maNikuttimasThale gathavaan

 kimidham ithi raamah achalan aaseeth

jaanuhasthaabhyaam chalathoh thayoh

 noopuraDhvanim Srthvaa raamakrshNayoh

 

hasan gacchathi krshNah bruvan

achalanthou na Srooyaavah ithi

raamo naalpamathih kinthu aicChath

 Srothum bhavagavathah hi noopuraSabdham

 

That is , Balarama was not naïve enough not to know that it was the sound of their anklets but he stopped purposely because he wanted to hear the eloquent sound of the anklets of the Lord.

 

 

 

17.mamachethasi sphurathu vallavee vibhoh

     mani noopurapraNayimanju Sinjitham

     kamalaavanechara kalindhakanyakaa

     kalahamsakanTa kalakoojithaadhrtham

 

May the sweet sound of the anklets of Krishna , the beloved of gopis, be heard in my mind, the sound that is deemed superior to that of the best of swans found in the river Yamuna among the assemblage of lotuses.

 

In this sloka  Leelasuka  continues to describe the sweet sound of the anklets of Krishna. The sound made by the kalahamasas, a special kind of swans which are known for their sweet sound, is even sweeter by eating the tender inside of the lotuses in the river Yamuna. But the musical sound of the anklets of Krishna  is extolled as being even superior to that.

 

The word kamalaavanam denotes that the assemblage of lotuses which  are dear to Lakshmi , who resides in them. As Lakshmi always accompanies the Lord in all His incarnations, she must have been present among the lotuses in Yamuna river. Kamalaavana as the abode of Lakshmi also indicates the lord Himself as He is also a kamalavana, a forest of lotuses, His eyes, hands and feet resembling lotuses, a thaamaraikkaadu , to quote Kamban.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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