Dear
SrEvaishNavites,
Sri TCA Venkatesan swAmi has kindly agreed
to write about bhaTTar's explanation for the first pAsuram of the seventh ten
-'kaRavA maDA nAGu'.
A pioneer in 'A Day in the Life of
AchAryAs' his contribution adds richness to the series.
kaRavA maDa
nAgu
The first two lines of the pAsuram reads
as follows :
kARavA mada nAgu than kanRu
vuLLinAR pole ,
maRavAdhu adiyEan vunnaiyEa
azhaikkinREAn" 7-1-1;
A superficial study of the pAsuram will
give the meaning
"The Lord being likened to a unmlked cow
thinking of the calf --the first line.
The second line says --The calf without
forgetting calls for the Lord.
"Amudhanar tried to interpret the line
"kaRavA mada
nAgu than kanRu uLLinAr pOl" as "karavA mada nAgu, than kanRinai uLLinAr pOl" - that is, like a cow which has not been milked yet thinking of its calf. However, this did not go with the next line where Azhvar refers to him (the calf) calling out to the Lord (the cow). When Parasara Bhattar was presented with this pasuram, he explained it as follows: "kaRavA mada nAgu than kanRu, (than thAyai) uLLinAR pOl". That is, the calf (Azhvar) of the cow which has not been milked yet, thinking of its mother (the Lord)." DAsAn
TCA Venkatesan
That is the words 'nAGu than" is to be
treated as iraNdAm vEARRumai vurubu and
considered as nagin than kaNRu and interpreted accordingly. kaRavA maDa
nAgin kanRu thannai ninaikkumA-p-pOlE-maRavAmal azhaikkinREAn
.
Thus the Lord is in the place of yet to be
milked cow and AzhwAr in the place of the calf.
In fact, Sri kAnchi swAmi mentions that
Sri piLLai amudhanAr understood this artha vishEsham from one of the disciples
of bhaTTAr who was present in the ghOsthi.
dAsan
vanamamalai padmanabhan
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