Excellent Sri Vasudevan swAmi. I have enjoyed this
pAsuram whenever I think or recite this.
Shall i take the privilege of drawing a more or
less similar pAsuram:
"aravam adal vEyam Ankurundham
puLvAi
kuravai kudamulai maRkunRam-
karivinRi
vittirundhu, mEAithosithu kEndu
kOthAdi
vuNdu attedutha, sengan avan"
mudhal thiruvandhAdhi 54
To be readjusted
as:
aravam vittirundhu
adal vEyam iruthu
An mEithu
kurundham osithu
puLvAi kENdu
kuravai kOthu
kudam Adi
mulai vuNdu
mal attu
kunRam eduthu.
aravam vittirindhu: - drove
away the kAlian;
adal vEyam iruthu - vanquishing the
elephant kuvalaiyApEtam
A(n)
mEithu -
Taking care of the cows;
kurundham osithu - destroying
the demon in the form of kurundham;
puLvAi kENdu
- bakAsura vadham;
kuravai kOthu
- rAsak krEdai
kudam
Adi
- kudak kUthu
mulai
vuNdu -
bhUdhanai s mulai ( vuyir ) vuNdu
mal
attu
- killing the wrestlers
kunRam eduthu
- picking up the goverdhana giri.
Great poetic sense indeed. The gramattical
greatness has already been explained by sri. vasudevan swami.
I am able to realise the value of the words of
swAmi maNavALa mAmunigaL 'mARRuLla AzhwArgaLukku
munnEA vandhudhithu
nAthamiyAl nAttai vuytha" vupadhEsa
rathinamAlai.
Great indeed
dhAsan
vAnamAmalai padmanAbhan
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, September 12, 2003 5:44
PM
Subject: [Oppiliappan] a special
paasuram
Dear sri vaishNava perunthagaiyeer,
Here is one of
the grammatically excellent paasurams. First, the paasuram from moonraam
thiruvanthaadhi and then how it has the grammatical excellence.
peRRam
piNai marutham pEi mulai maach chagadam muRRak kaaththoodu pOi uNdu
udhaiththu kaRRuk kuNilai viLankanikkuk koNdu eRinthaan veRRip paNilam
vaai vaiththu uganthaan paNdu. - paasuram no 64
You have to readjust
the words to get the real meaning - like peRRam muRRak kaaththu piNai
marutham oodu pOi pEi mulai uNdu maach chagadam
udhaiththu
balance paasuram to be read as it progresses.
To give
the meaning of above paasuram-
KrishNa as a child
did 1. peRRam muRRak kaaththu - grazed the
cows and calves in its entirety of the village - peRRam means pasukkaL - cows
and calves, muRRa - in its entirety, kaaththu - protected - means took them to
forests for grazing, grazed and brought them back home safely from the
forests, without these being attacked by wild animals
etc. 2. piNai marutham oodu pOi - the two
gandharvaas because of their own actions received a curse to stand as marutha
trees, stood jointly in the backyard of the house of krishNa for their saapa
vimOchanm - release from curse - oodu pOi - krishNa crossed the trees to give
the desired release of these two gandharvaas.
3. pEi mulai uNdu - the poothana samhaaram
episode - simply put across as - sucked the breasts of the demon poothana who
came with the intention of killing child krishNa by giving poisoned breast
milk. 4. maach chagadam udhaiththu - kicked
the big cart - the sagada asuran episode - who came as the wheel of a big cart
with the intention of killing child krishNa, while krishNa was in his
cradle. 5. kaRRuk kuNilai viLankanikkuk koNdu
eRinthaan - kaRRu - the calf, kuNil - a small staff, - the calf thrown like a
small staff to beat a small fruit in the tree - children generally while going
to graze cows and calves take two three staffs, similar way krishNa threw the
asura like a staff, [who came as calf] to beat another asura who stood in the
tree as the fruit, by that one action, both fell
dead. 6. veRRip paNilam vaai vaiththu
uganthaan paNdu - paNilam means sangu - the conch - paanchajanyam of krishNa -
he blew the conch for success of the paaNdavaas at the beginning of war at the
kurukshEthra - by that action of blowing of krishNa, it is described in the
bagavath geetha, that the hearts of sons of dhritharaashtra were broken. PaNdu
means olden days.
Now the grammatical specialty- there are four
different nouns or actions are in the first line.
Their corresponding
verbs are found in the second line in the same order. This is the
specialty.
Generally the subject and predicate [noun and verb] follows
each other with the object coming in the queue.
Here four subjects or
objects first. Then four verbs.
This kind of arrangement is called
yathaa sankhya alankaaram in sanskrit grammar.
The definition of that
alankaaram is udhdhishtaanaam padha arthhaanaam poorvam paschaadh yathaa
kramam | anudhdhEsO BhavEth athra thath thath athra thath
yathaasankhyamishyathE ||
[re page 547 prathaapa rudhreeyam
krishnadhaas varanasi publication]
meaning: where you have a particular
order of words in the first line, correspondingly if you relate their actions
or descriptions in the second line in the same order, then it is called yathaa
sankhya alankaaram.
You can find this in the paasuram - 4 different
actions of krishna in first line- four different verbs describing them in
second line in same order.
That is the specialty.
This I heard
in the upanyasam recently of sri TERanganathachar swamy of nanganallur [who
was my hindhi teacher also incidentally when both [myself and swamy] were in
government service].
Since it was most enjoyable, I wanted to share
with the readers.
Dhasan
Vasudevan m.g.
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