Stamping 2
Dear srivaishNava perunthagaiyeer,
We are studying the paasuram -
oru kaalil sangu oru kaalil chakkaram uLLadi poRiththu amaintha
iru kaalum koNdu angu ezhudhinaarpOl ilachchinai pada nadanthu
perugaa ninRa inba veLLaththin mEl pinnaiyum peidhu peidhu
karu kaark kadal vaNNan kaamar thaadhai thaLar nadai nadavaanO
1-7 6 - periyaazhvaar thirumozhi ? thodar sangilikai padhikam
My doubt no 6. Is that the study of `rekai saasthram' and `forensic
science based on these rEkais' developed with this study about the
lord's feet and the marks it contained?
In the first line aazhvaar has said `uLLadi poRiththu amaintha iru
kaalum koNdu angu nadanthu'. Here `angu' means where Krishna is ? the
palace of nandha ? or the place where he is trying to walk.
Sangu chakkaram poriththu amaintha iru kaalum koNdu angu ilachchinai
pada nadanthu ? that conveys full meaning. The word ilachchinai
itself conveys that beautiful stamping. Why to add one more
word `ezhudhinaarpOl'. This leads us, there is something more to
that `poriththu'. That gives indication that some more marks are also
written along with these two `poriththu amaintha ilachchinai' marks.
Then what are these? That is doubt no 7.
The stamp marks appearing on child krishNa's feet are
like `ezhudhinaarpOl' ? means the stamping is so clear - like written
by an artist? An artist of super capability. Who is that super
artist? That is doubt no 8.
If so what are these marks apart from the two already mentioned ?
that is doubt no 9.
I read elsewhere `the lord's feet has 24 marks'. If so, what are
they? That is doubt no 10.
`ilachchinai' ? is a stamp mark which is unique ? may be unique to a
king ? arasa ilachchinai. Like the fish for paaNdiyaas, tiger of
chOlas etc.
[Please recall mOdhira ilachchinai in tamil history ? or mudhdhirai
mOdhiram ? `ring' stamp of the king ? may be this is the basis for a
round stamps, now we use - that is being stamped in the letters
exchanged between kings, those days. Bhakthaas who have visited
selaiyur camp of ahobila mutt will recall, there is a big copper ring
kept as ilachchinai mOthiram of the mutt.]
Now, to go into bhaagavatham ? on the kaaliyan's [snake] head, the
lord krishNa danced and thus his head got these feet marks stamped
on. KrishNa, himself, says to kaaliyan, `since you have my feet's
marks on your head, garudan, your enemy, will not do any harm to you,
when you go back to the ocean so leave this place'. As such the
stamping has the guarantee for life of kaaliyan. The exact slOkam is
dhveepam ramaNakam hithvaa hradhamEthamupaasritha:
yadhbhayaath sa suparNasthvaam naadhyaanmathpaadhalaanchitham
meaning: Afraid of Garudan, you abandoned the island Ramanaka and
took shelter of this pool [near gOkulam]; but now that you are marked
by My feet, he will not devour you.'
[Dhasama skandham canto16 slokam 63]
On the raamaayaNam side, when jataayu died, while his life is getting
separated from his body, jatayu's thoughts are fixed on raamaa's
feet, which have these `stamp marks'. Raama, while searching for
seethaa, saw jataayu lying dead, with thoughts on raamaa's feet with
the special characteristic marks. Thus describes thulasidhasa in his
ramacharithmaanas, doha no 9 after choupaayee 29 in aaraNya kaanda.
While commenting on this doha, the commentator gives what are the
details of these marks says - 24 nos are written there on each feet
and lists out those. Let us see the doha and then what these 24 are
poorana kaama raama sukha raasi manuja charitha kara aja abhinaasi
aagE paraa geeDhapathi dhEkhaa sumaritha raama charana jinha rekhaa
Meaning: [after raama has asked all the trees birds, animals in the
forest the disappearance of seethaa and her whereabouts behaving like
a mortal man] further on they [raama and lakshmaNa] saw the king of
vultures lying dead, with his thoughts fixed on sri raamaa's feet
which bear the characteristic marks on their soles.
Now the list: on the Left feet
1. oordhva rekha ? vertical line
2. a svasthika
3. an ashta kONam ? two squarescutting each other
4. goddess lakshmi represented in the form of a golden coil
described in two and a half concentric circles
5. a plough
6. a pestle
7. a sesha ? serpent god
8. an arrow
9. the sky ? in the form of cipher or zero
10. a lotus
11. a chariot
12. a thunderbolt
13. a grain of rice or barley
14. the karpaga tree ? the wish yielding tree
15. a goad
16. a flag
17. a crown
18. the discuss
19. a throne
20. the staff of yama the god of death ? sengOl ? or dharma dhanda
21. a chourie
22. an umbrella
23. a human
24. a wreath of victory
Right feet:
1. sarayu river
2. a cow's hoof
3. the earth
4. a pitcher
5. a small flag
6. a jambu fruit
7. the crescent
8. the conch
9. a shat kONam ? a hexagon made by two crossing triangles
10. a triangle
11. a mace
12. a jiva ? a human form illustrated by its atomic size ? means
appoint
13. bindu ? in the form of point
14. sakthi ? represented by a semi circle and forming the base of
the bindu
15. a reservoir of nectar ? amrutha kalasam
16. 3 horizontal lines like folds of belly
17. a fish
18. full moon
19. a lute
20. a flute
21. a bow
22. a quiver
23. a swan
24. an ornament for the head of a lady
Can somebody give the authentication for the list above? [may be some
vEdhic lines or puraaNa lines?]. [taken from ramcharithmanas of gita
press gorakhpur web site].
Added information is that seetha also has these 48 marks in the
reverse order ? viz ? raama's right footmarks are found on her left
foot, raamaa's left footmarks on her right foot.
Thus the `angu ezhudhinaarpOl ilachchinai' has, in addition to the
sangu and chakkaram marks, all these marks listed above. Like
jataayu, let us also think raamaa's feet in our mind now itself. So
the mind gets trained to remember those specially marked feet of my
krishNa.
Dhaasan
Vasudevan m.g
azhwAr emberumAnAr jeeyAr thiruvadigalE saranam
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